Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1937 — Page 9

"SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1937

Sunday Games Aid Yankees, days Williams

Jimmy Walker Fought for Passage of N. Y. Law, Joe Writes.

By JOE WILLIAMS

| Times Special Writer | MIAMI, March 13.—Since Yankee | Stadium was opened in 1932, the |! Ruppert rifles have had five seasons in which their home attendance | has gone well over the 1,000,000 | mark in paid admissions. In 1036 | the total was around 1,100,000, and with something like 900,000 on the the New York club enjoyed a really gala campaign at the turnstiles. To more

this fact, than to any other, may be traced the epidemic of Yankee hold - outs this year, and the rise of the club payroll to the record peak of $300.000. | In the development of these five attendance totals of more cach in the Bronx many factors have received just dues. Babe Ruth, rising in baseball, Yankee power and class, pennant and world cham- | winning ball clubs—all | have been hefted as ingredients in | the phenomenal financial success | the Ruppert enterprise. But as a matter of fact, the most important factor has been neglected. It 1s Sunday baseball.

Williams than 1.000.000 arena, their

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Sunday Baseball Important

Without the law, which was passed by the New York Legislature 1919, Yankee Stadium, itself, | would have been improbable and | Ruth's $80,000 salary would not | have been achieved. If the Sunday baseball law had not become a fact | 18 vears ago, Col. Jacob Ruppert | and Col. Til Huston might not have bought Ruth the following year irom the Red Sox for $100,000. To appreciate the importance of Sunday baseball, it is only necessary to set down the fact that of the 1,100,000 persons who paid to sce the Yankees last season, nearly 400,000 attended on a dozen Sundays. | The Giants also enjoved amazing success on their Sabbath dates. In tracing the downfall of the Dodgers, too much importance cannot be attached to the loss of six or seven Sundays as a consequence of the passage of the Sabbath baseball law In Pennsylvania.

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Hard on Dodgers

Assignment of Sunday games in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia pulled Brookivn from 19 and 20 Sabbath programs down to the general ‘evel of 12 and 13, cut the profits of the Flatbush enterprise and brought on umulating difficulties. The vast importance of Sunday baseball in part explains why the men of both the National and American Leagues have a particusoft spot in their hearts for Jimmy Walker and why, if Judge Landis were to take it into his head to retire, Walker would be the No. 1 | candidate for the high commissionership. As pilot of the Democratic forces in the New York Senate, Walker fought his way to a successful decision in the long battle for Sunday baseball. When the showdown came, the Democrats did not have enough strength to put the bill over. But certain Republicans who were close to Walker, and who had a sincere conviction that Sunday baseball shoud not be kept from cities which wanted it, broke party lines and enabled the law to nose in.

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INDEPENDENT BASKETBALL

Englewood Christian and Woodside M. E. teams meet in the final game of the Marion County Sunday School basketball tournament in the Y. M. C. A. gvm tonight. The Englewood Five defeated the Clermont Christians, 25 to 16, and Woodside downed Woodruff Place Baptists, 20 to 18 in last night's

games,

The finals of the Gold Medal in the Lawrence sectional will be plaved tonighy at the Lawrence High School gym. Action is {to begin at 7:30 with the Lawrence Trojans battling the Dearborn Lions. The Keasling Service five won third place in the tourney and was awarded a bronze trophy. All managers and players in the event are requested to attend tonight's game. Trophies and medals are to be awarded at the conclusion of the title clash.

tourney

St. Mary's Net Squad In Catholic Tourney

Times Special CHICAGO, March 13. — Sixteen more teams are io be selected from approximately 50 applications to complete the bracket for the National Interscholastic Catholic basketball tourney which begins Wednesday night at Loyola TUniversity.

FF The BackBoarp

By JOHN W. THOMPSON

Basketball Season Full of Unpredictable Happenings But Favorites Make Good Showing All Around.

AVE you noticed the basketballs around town lately ? They're all beginning to look funny. And as the process of evolution continues it won't be long before they'll all turn into baseballs, and go fluttering over left field fences. So I'm getting out while I can. For if anyone starts questioning me on the subject of pitch and catch I'll “ad-mitt” that I'd go “bat-ty.” It's been a great year for Indiana's most popular sport—basket - ball. And the game which Mr. Naismith sat down one night and thought up out of his own head doesn’t seem to be slipping any in the minds of the fans. That despite the fact that the finals of the State tournament still continue to be operated on the one-day plan. Perhaps no other aspect of the high school situation has come up for as much criticism as that part about the State finals being run off in one day. Of course the argument that three games in one day is too much activity for Hoosier boys is a perfect one. It's true, and few there are who will contradict it, that no basketball tournament is worth injuring even one boy's health. And {here doesn’t seem to be any other way out of the problem but to stretch it out over a longer series. > & =

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HE present set-up does spread out the revenue derived from ticket sales, pop. candy and programs over a greater number of the smaller cities rather than dumping all the cash right here in Indianapolis. But after all, it's the little towns that make the State tournament. If Indianapolis teams started flocking to the finals mavbe we would have more of a kick coming. Perhaps the major shock of the high school season was the demise of Frankfort at the hands of little Rossville. Too much credit to Rossville nor too little to Frankfort should not follow, however. For Coach Everett Case's team was a topnotcher right up to the end and anyone who doubts it can prove theyre wrong by coming out to see the boys when they get under way next season. There isn't any doubt that the State fears Frankfort's team for next year.

And rightly so, Rossville or no Rossville.

The rise of Tech's fast little the season's horizon.

team was another bright spot in

The fans on the East Side were quite blue for

a while there at the beginning after Tech slumped decidedly as the result of illness and the loss of Hickey.

I feel that the progress Tech

has shown in the latter and most

important days of the season is due to effect of Bayne Freeman. their

coach.

Freeman, who doesn’t look much older than some

of his

charges, has the knack of instiiling confidence into his bovs and at

the same time keeping them from

getting cocky. That is one of the

most powerful talents a high school basketball coach can have.

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HE Indiana college scene was dominated by the undefeated record of the Central Normal squad over at Danville, Coach S. H. Leitzman’s men whipped through a long season without bowing once. The

closest they came to losing was in over. But they came back later

overians tumbling by a large score. the main elements of this year’s Warrior team.

bother a lot about defense if they

a double overtime game with Hanin the season and sent the HanSpeed and scoring power were They don’t seem to

can make points themselves. And

the major portion of Coach Leitzman's squad of 16 will be back again

next season.

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Although Indiana and Purdue slipped down considerably in the

Big Ten competition this season it

was largely because of the entrance

into the Western Conference of Doug Mills, the youthful Illinois coach who with Dave McMillan of Minnesota caused most of the trouble

among the dopesters concerned in

the Big Ten standings.

Mills started out at a trot but he rapidly put Louis Bourdreau and

the rest of his speed demons into

a championship pace. Minnesota

put the crimps into Purdue and Michigan finished the thing off. It was a great season for high scoring and tight defense and about the only thing that I know for sure is that it looks like basketball is

here to stay.

And now, I think, without a word of advice to Dizzy Dean, I'll

steal home,

Slugger Demaree Signed

For $13,500 by Wrigley

By United Press AVALON, Demaree's holdout $1500 compromise by both sides. Cub officials said Owner P. K. Wrigley in Chicago took over nego-

SANTA CATALINA

tiations personally with the heavy |

hitter and signed Demaree to his 1937 contract for $13,500. This was

New Indoor Mark

Set by Hurdler

Buy United Press TORONTO, Ontario, March 13.— Larry O'Connor set a new indoor record for the 60-yard hurdles at the third annual Maple Leaf Games last night. He clipped {wo-fifths | off the accepted mark of 7.3 seconds. O'Connor, University of Toronto student and Canadian Olympic runner, defeated Eugene Record of McGill University, Montreal, by a foot. G. Wallace Brown, also of Toronto U., turmed in an upset by defeating Eugene Peacock of

jump with a distance of 23 feet 7 inches, shorter by a foot than the Canadian record. Peacock, however, repeated his 1936 triumph in the 60-yard sprint. He was timed in six seconds, a new Canadian mark. Glenn Cunnoing-

ham of Kansas, running under the |

New York Curb Exchange colors, won a dull mile race in 4:18.2.

VINES, PERRY TIED AGAIN IN MATCHES By United Press : ST. LOUIS, March 13.—The barnstorming tour of Ellsworth Vines,

World's professional tennis cham-

pion, and Fred Perry, former British champion, was deadlocked today when Vines scored another vic- | tory over his opponent. Perrv was outclassed from the | start. Vines won 6-3, 6-4. They now

from the Chicago Cubs was at a

Temple, last | vead's winner, in the running broad !

ISLAND, Cal, March 13.—Frank

an end today in a

halfway between Demaree's demands and the Cubs’ original offer.

13.—The Pittsburgh Pirates squad is | expected to become complete with | the arrival of outfielders and the remainder of the infield next week. A muddy field yesterday permitted only a light workout so the squad saw the national orange show, PASADENA, Cal, March 13.—The Chicago White Sox's holdout problem was over today with Pitcher Merritt (Sugar) Cain reported signed in Georgia. The Sox were rained out vesterday for the second time in five years of training here and spent the afternoon at golf. Manager Jimmy Dvkes planned to use a pitcher an mning in tomorrow’'s first game with the 20th Cen-tury-Fox Film semipros. HAVANA, March 13. — The New York Giants entertain their most bitter rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, in their first major league exhibition game of the season today. Manager Frankie Frisch announced he would pitch Lon Warneke and use Paul Dean tomorrow. His starting batting order will be Gutteridge third; Martin, right field: Padgett, center field: Medwick, left field;

Mize, first base: Cuccinello, second; |

Durocher, and Owen, | catcher. Manager Bill Terry of the Giants, | announced yesterday he would re- | tire from active playing May 15 with | Johnny McCarthy and Sam Leslie alternating at first base.

short stop,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. March | 13.—Manager Joe McCarthy of the |

New York Yankees will pitch Sundra, Wicker and Tobin against the Boston Bees in their opening exhibition contest today. Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri, Catcher Dickey, | First Baseman Lou Gehrig, and

| Centerfielder Joe DiMaggio will be | | nione the Yankee regulars not in |

the lineup. Gehrig is still holding | out. DiMaggio signed yesterday and | has not arrived in camp. Berger, | Cuccinello and Warstler will be the

St. Mary's of Anderson, Indiana |p ve won 15 matches each. They | Boston regulars watching the rookies

champion this year, and runner-up for national honors last year, and DeLaSalle or Chicago, defending champion, are entered.

Manero, Little Play Revolta and Picard

By United Press MIAMI, Fla, March 13.—Tournament pressure at its heaviest toda) faced two teams of the nation's best golfers—Tony Manero and Lawson Little against Johnny Revolta and Henry Picard in an 18-hole playcf to decide the international fourball golf championship. Manero and Little were in the running because the latter sank a sensational 25-foot putt on the 36th hole yesterday and ended the dou-ble-round finals match all square. Little's accuracy on the final green may be worth $1000 to him and his partner. Today's winning team will

split $2000 top money, with $500 go- |

ing to each of the runners-up.

| planned to leave for St. Paul to- { morrow to continue the tournament.

WISCONSIN BOXERS WIN By United Press | MADISON, Wis., March 13.—More [than 9000 fans watched University of Wisconsin boxers defeat Louisiana State in an intercollegiate boxing tournament last night, 5's to 21,

SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS By United Press ST. LOUIS, March 13.—The House and Senate of Missouri held a joint session recently to adopt a resolution commending the spirit of the new organization behind the St. Louis Browns.

This coupon worth $1.00 as down {| pavment on new General Elec- |] tric Appliances or new Maytag |§ Washer,

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perform. LAKELAND, Fla., March 13. — {| Rookie Rudy York from Milwaukee | figures Marvin Owen will be easier ‘to beat out of a regular Detroit | Tiger berth than Hank Greenberg. | He announced today he wanted to try out for third instead of first base {| where he hit .334 for last year. Manager

Cochrane undoubtedly

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Red Tam NEWS OF THE AUTO WORLD

At Front Door Of Top Rank

Chuck Dressen’s Cincinnati Club Shows Hustle in Spring Training.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent TAMPA, Fla, March Hustling, hard-working Dressen has the Cincinnati

vision in the National League. In two years under Dressen the Reds have come up from eighth to fifth and the big question now is | whether they are ready to crowd their way into the first division. Dressen says he has a first di- | vision club. The players think so, | too. They have the winning spirit. | On paper, the Reds look formidable. They are hustling in trainling like a team going some place. | “And if we crack into first division,” says Dressen, | a chance at the flag. The way the | National League race is set up, any

| team of first division skill will be |

| a contender.” Reds’ Squad Largest The Reds’ squad of 36 is the biggest in any National League camp. Seventeen are rookies, several of whom are definitely ear-marked for stardom. | In a nutshell the Reds shape up | this way: Pitching, great; catching, | excellent; infield, big problem; outfield, improved.

The six pitchers from last year’s

| club on whom Dressen is counting | are Paul Derringer, Peaches Davis, Gene Schott, Al Hollingsworth, Bill | Hallahan, and Benny Frey, Derringer will be the big gun. Of the voungsters, Dressen is | banking on Lloyd Moore, Lee Grissom and Johnny Vander Meer.

Heavy on Catchers

| The Reds are heavily stocked with | catchers—Ernie Lombardi, who hit

| 333 last season; Virgil Davis from |

| the Cardinals, Bill Campbell and | Dee Moore, who hit 400 in six | games last season for the Reds.

Alex Kampouris, Charley Gelbert from the Cardinals, and Eddie Miller, a fielding flash from Toronto, are competing for the second base job. Lew Ringgs, whose play slumped last season: Jimmy Outlaw, who hit 330 for Nashville, and Ed Joost, who hit 286 for the Missions (Coast League) are in a battle for the hot corner. The outfield is likely to be com-

posed of Big Phil Weintraub, a 371 | hitter from Rochester in left, Kiki

Cuvler in center, and Ival Goodman in right. Weintraub played under Dressen at Nashville in 1934 and hit .401, an all-time Southern Association record. Other outfielders are Hub Walker, | Jack Rothrock, back up for another trial from Rochester, and “Double Joe” Dwyer from Nashville. Babe

Herman is a holdout, and likely to |

be traded.

PARK TEAM LOSES IN PREP TOURNEY

Times Special CHICAGO, March 13.-—After defeating Park School of Indianapolis, 46-32, in the first

| Onarga Military School, Prep School Tourney. Phillips and Hook were the mainstays of the Culver offense which | was able to push back the Park threat which the fast-shooting Hiatt | placed before them during three quarters of the game. The summary. Culver (16) FG FTP Clauer, f.. 0 Phillips. 1... 6 1 Hook, c¢ 3 Dutcher, g Medburn, g Fuuk { Hoopes,

Park (32)

F FG FT PF 3 Hacklmn, f.. : 2'Golay, 1..... 2iHiat, ‘c...... 3 Cusack, g ... 2iMiner, g..... 0 Bohlen, 1 1 Lathrop, Kuhn, g

4 3 0 3 1

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Totals 17 12 13¢ Totals... Score at Hall

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13 Culver, 18; Park, 15,

Wolverines Favored In Wrestling Meet

Si United Press

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 18— |

Matmen from the University of Illinois today were established as favorites to take the Western Con- | ference wrestling crown in tonight's final matches. The Illini placed

six men in the semi-finals and one |

{In the finals on a bye, in last night's grappling. Not far behind in the lists were Minnesota, with six men in the | semi-finals, and Michigan and In- | diana with five each.

| Hayes to Address

Indiana Alumni The Indiana University Club of

| Indianapolis will have as its guest | speaker Monday Coach E. C. Haves

|of the Indiana University track |

Shooters to Compete

. For Local Skeet Title

Local and out-of-town skeet | shooters will compete for the In-

| dianapolis Open championship to- |

| morrow at the Indianapolis Skeet

| R. H. King, Don Martin, Harold

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Laundry and Dry Cleaning

Rug Shampooing 9x12 Domestic .

13.— | Charlie | Reds | knocking at the door of first di- |

“we have |

| Club. Among outstanding contend- | the Brewers | aps in the handicap event will be |

| wants a hard-hitting third sacker, | B2anblossom and Norman Kevers. |

PRODICTIN OF GHEVROLETS IS

| | | |

* NEAR CAPACITY

Indianapolis Zone Director

Returns From Meeting At Detroit. Chevrolet's production of passen-

| ger cars and trucks is rapidly ap- | proaching full capacity of

| units a day, enabling dealers to ac- |

| {cept orders now for quick delivery. This announcement by H. B.

Hatch, assistant general sales man- |

ager of the company, was the high- | light of a Flint regional meeting in Detroit from which E. W. Berger, Indianapolis zone manager, has just returned. Mr. Hatch announced to the region's wholesale personnel | Chevrolet's plans for achieving its | second consecutive million-car year. “Redoubled sales and advertising effort, in conjunction with high | volume production, are expected to result in a sales performance approximating that of last year, when Chevrolet led the industry for the seventh time since 1926,” said Mr. Berger. “All forms of advertising are being enlisted to assure the successful outcome of the program. | large appropriations having been set up for newspaper space.” A feature of the Detroit meeting | was a banquet at which Mr. Hatch | presented Mr. Berger and other

6000 |

Berger Wins Place

{members of the wholesale organiza- |

{tion with diamond-set gold keys, | symbols of their membership in the | All-America Selling Team. The or- | ganization is an honor body founded

|by W. E. Holler, vice president and |

| general sales manger, to | nize and promote outstanding sales | ability. | Meetings will be held at once, Mr. | Berger said, to relay to dealers { throughout this zone the sales plans discussed by Mr. Hatch.

SAFETY STRESSED IN RESERVE POWER

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on Team

E. W. Berger (left), Incianapolis zone manager for the Chevrolet Motor Division of the General Motors Sales Corp., was one of the 146 Chevrolet field executives to be awarded a key emblematic of member=

ship in Chevrolet's All-American Selling Team for 1936.

The award

was presented by H. B. Hatch, assistant general sales manager of the company, at a meeting held at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.

Reports Gain

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Permits Quick Getaway,

Packard Points Out.

Adequate reserve power is con-

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sidered by engineers of the Packard | Motor Car Co. to be an important |

safety feature of an automobile. It

permits a motorist to

accelerate |

quickly out of a hazardous situation | when coming even to a full stop |

might not avoid danger.

At the same time, they point out |

that with abundant

reserve power |

an engine should run longer and re- | main freer from necessity for serv- | ice work. The greatest stress on an | automobile engine comes when it is |

operated at maximum power continuously for considerable periods of time. There are, however, few places

in the country, except on speedways, | where a car can be driven at maxi-

mum speed and power.

company’s newest car, Tucker, president of Packard, Indianapolis, says: “Packard engineers provided for | an oversized engine, just as with the | One Twenty car. | Packard that the new six, when | traveling 50 miles an hour is utiliz-

In designing the Packard Six, the | Preston |

It is announced by |

| ing only 28 per cent of its available |

| horsepower. | 72 per cent.

There is a reserve of | At 60 miles an hour |

| there is a reserve of 61 per cent of | the available power from the motor |

and even at 70 miles an hour only

slightly more than half the engine's |

power is needed. There is an actual

reserve of 47 per cent of the avail- | able power at 70 miles an hour, it is |

asserted by the Packard engineers. The maximum horsepower Packard Six is given as 100.”

CUMMINGS NAMED T0 SELL PACKARDS

Local Race Driver Appointed By Indianapolis Agency.

mings, local race driver, as a retail sales representative of Packard Indianapolis, Inc, 1510 N, Meridian St. has been announced by | Charles Sanders, salesmanager. | “wild Bill” is known throughout | the automobile racing world for his part in the annual 500-mile race. He has raced on practically every important speedway in the country.

GUARANTEE IS RAISED

| Goodrich Kathanode batteries used

of the

Appointment of “Wild Bill” Cum-

The mileage guarantee for the

| in commercial service has been in- |

| creased, it has been announced by E. B. Oscars. Goodrich Silvertown | Service manager, Delaware and | North Sts. : | On all the heavy-duty Goodrich | Kathanode batteries for trucks and busses, the guarantee has been raised | from 18 months or 36,000 miles to {72,000 miles; for light trucks to 13 | months or 54,000 miles.

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Mr. C. T. Foxworthy, vice presidet, Roy Wilmeth Co., Ford dealer, 720 N. Meridian St. reports the biggest February in sales in all departments in“the history of the company. Mr. Foxworthy stated, “these figures indicate that the public are of the belief that a price rise in both new and used cars is inevitable.” The Wilmeth organization operate five used car lots, 14th and Meridian Sts., 720 N. Capitol Ave., 820 W. Washington St., 2701 E. Washington St., and 932 N. Meridian St. in addition to their store given above.

MUCH

CARBON DIOXIDE

The burning of gasoline in auto- omy of operation—an economy aug10bi carbon | mented by the cruising gear—and dioxide each year to make 160,- | the performance of the famous Nash

mobiles produces enough

000,600 tons of “dry ice.”

NASH CAR SALES

FORD USED CAR SALES IN THIS AREA INCREASE

'Spurt Credited in Part to State-Wide Clearance Event.

An impressive upswing in used car sales throughout the Ford Motor | Co. Indianapolis Branch territory | this month is reported by R. A. Hayes, branch manager, on the basis | of reports received from the deal- | ers in all parts of Indiana.

The used car sales spurt is credited in part to a state-wide clearance sale conducted by the dealers. Used car stocks were considerably ree | duced. Also helpful in the increased vole ume of used car business has been | the “R & G” program, Mr. Hayes | said. “Each car offered for sale | under the R & G emblem is re- | newed and guaranteed in accordance { with inflexible standards laid down | by the Ford Co. Moreover, the cars are sold with an airtight, [ money-back guarantee, The car | buyer takes his used automobile | on the road not only without fear, | but with confidence. “It is also worth mention that R & G used cars are especially conditioned for the unusual weather | conditions experienced at this time | of the year. This results in imme= diate economies to the purchaser,”

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=" RAYON CORDS USED Greatest Year Since 1929, | NEW TRUCK TIRE

Company Executive | : Ane ges: ‘Added Strength Is Feature, | More 1937 Nash automobiles al-| U.S. Rubber Firm Says.

ready have been produced and | | shipped than during the entire] model vear of 1936, according to C. H. Bliss, vice president of the | Nash-Kelvinator Co. | With the spring selling season just | beginning, and the demand for Nash | Lafayette cars constantly increasing, | strength than cotton. As a result, the 1936 record has been surpassed, | this new U, S. Royal has remarkable | : a : ioe. wp | COTCASS strength that adds measur= Mr. Bliss said. All three factories of | ably to tire life. | the Nash Motors division are operat-| More than 100 million test | ing at capacity to meet the require- a distance equal to 33300 | ments. | a ling States, : rel 1e tire, | “The popularity of Nash Lafayette SE ———— | cars has resulted in the greatest year STUDEBAKER SA LES | since 1929,” said Mr. Bliss. “From | up | the day the cars first were shown, | | the demand has constantly in- | creased. Despite the speeding up of | production, shipments have Kept | pace and as the spring selling secason starts we already have delivered | more cars to dealers than were de- | livered from Oct. 1, 1935, to Sept. 30, 1936. “Other factors, in addition to the | { modem streamlining, which have { attracted motorists to our 1937 cars, {are the easy riding qualities, the safety of body and chassis, the econ-

A new U. S. Royal tire featuring the use of rayon cords has been developed by United States Rubber | Products, Inc, for high-speed, heavy-load truck and bus service. The new carcass material is said to retain a greater portion of its

miles, trips were run

Paul G. Hoffman, president of The Studebaker Corp. reports the sales of 5114 passenger cars and trucks in the first 20 days of February compared with 3562 in Febru=ary 1936, an increase of 43 per cent, For the year to date, the sales are 12,849 compared with 9598 last year, | an increase of 34 per cent. GULF EXTENDS LEASE Lease of the entire third and fourth floors of the Nicholas Build= ing, Toledo, O. to the Gulf Refining Co. for its district offices is a move toward expansion of the | refinery facilities on the Maumee

engines.” River.

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