TWO SUPER-SIXES ENTERED IN RACE

With the advance guard of the auto speedway fans drifting into town there is much gossip about the two Hudson Super-Sixes which are entered in the big event.

Ralph Mulford will pilot one and Ira Vall will again drive the reconstructed stock car which gained him third position at Sheepshead Bay in the Metropolitan trophy and sixth in the Chicago auto derby.

Both are entered in the postponed speedway races at Galesburg.

Keen interest centers about the super-sixes, which are making their first local appearance in the racing game, because of the remarkable record they have made recently.

It is unusual for ordinary six cylinder cars of the pleasure type with no more alterations than racing bodies and altered gears to compete with the famous foreign built racing machines on the big speedways. The fact that the super-six has done this and "got in the money" is creating no end of comment. In the Chicago derby the cars which will be seen on the track Saturday finished sixth and ninth, respectively. Neither of them stopped their motors once. Vall's car made but one stop, to change a tire. The Mulford car, driven on that occasion by McCarthy, because Mulford does not drive on Sunday, made four stops, all for tire changes. Ever since that race the motor world has been discussing the showing made by the Hudson super-sixes. The fact that while so many of the specially built foreign racers dropped out on account of engine trouble while these two American manufactured six cylinder cars, with the same motor used as in the ordinary touring car distributed by the Hudson-Jones Auto company have stood up for the whole 300 mile grind, and never made a single trip to the pits for anything but gas and tire changes. In view of the record they have already made, speculation is rife as to how the Hudson cars will perform Saturday.

The salesrooms of the Hudson-Jones Auto company on Locust street are being besieged with people curious to see the famous Hudson Super-Six which Ralph Mulford drove 1,819 miles in twenty-four hours at an average speed of 78.5 miles per hour for every hour. The plucky car with the greatest stock chassis endurance record ever made on land, water or in the air, which has been allowed by the contest board of the American Automobile association, is now on exhibition.

The Hudosn-Jones Auto company will be glad to show the car to all who call, and to compare it with the ordinary touring cars in their salesrooms. It will be found exactly the same except for the changed body.

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