Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-06
BARNEY 0LDF|ELD,
RECORD SMASHER.
He Tells How it Feels to Ride
Faster Than the
Wind.
NO GRAND STAND PLAYING.
He Declares lie Will Yet Make Mile
In Fifty Notwithstanding Ef
feet is Immense.

"You ask me how II feels TO ride faster
than the wind. That Is difficult ques-
tion to answer | do not stop to analyze
my feelings any more says Barney Old
field, a former Salt Lake bicycle rider, but
now the most talked OF chauffeur in the
United states. During his recent visit
here. Oldheld told many interesting stor-
les about driving his devil-car, He has
vone to Los Angeles whore he will COM
pete in auto races and whore he expects
to break more records,
~ had been accustomed to riding motor
cycles and following fast pace. you know,
before / took up auto racing, ana was
not inexperienced in fast riding
"You may think you have an idea OF
what racing at mile a minute means,
but You haven't It means flying you
have every sensation OF falling OF being
hurled through space, ana the landscape
rushing 20 YOU gives you feeling that
you cannot shake OF, even when you feel
the firm machine throbbing under you
with It's battery OF eight cylinders going
Ike a drummer's tattoo We make no
preparation for start such as warm
ing up when You ride with me. We just
jump In and let er rip. We mug the IN
ner rail and at the turns we slide out
toward the outside fence. If crank
breaks, a wheel glves-well, you know. |
am going To- MAKE a mile In 80 seconds.
If You ride with me then, you Will know
what going Is.
THE nrst time around we leave cloud
OF dust IN our wake, and then. rounding
the turn at the foot Of the stretch we
plunge into the dust again. ! wear
pair of plain goggles when | race. The
mist of dust rises up ana you feel alone
with the machine IN the swlrling Jog you
lefl when YOU were around there before.
A steady hand, cool nerve and you are
all right. The exhilarating effect Is inn
mcnse II there are other machines on
the track their dust whips you like lash
Your clothes are pressed against you un-
I'll the casing seems like wise The air
tears past you In gale and the machine
In It's maddt nng dash through the swirl
ing dust takes on the attributes OF
sentient thing have come down the
last mile OF Il stretch leaning ahead and
tapping the old racer and actually calling
II pet names In the effort to get the
speed | needed.
THE public reads Of these races and
doubtless maryels at the craze Of driving
at what seems pace that Kills. But To
ride faster than man ever rode beforer,
TO feel that space Is being cut down I'll
man Ii master and speed his slaYe--these
things are worth feeling and there Is an
ecstacy In the drive that tingles through
every fiber of your being.
There Is less grand stand playing
kind OF sport You lose sight of the crowd
early, Men sitting In costly machines be-
side the track rival makers of racers
needing your every movement, praise or
blame waiting for you at the end, these
seem only trifles when the race Is on.
You even lose sight OF those In the race
with YOU At top aueed you feel when
YOU strike a pebble as N you had run over
boulder. All sensation Is exaggerated
and the flashing celebrity with which
you take the turns in the course gives
you the feeling bird on the wing must
have
81 am only one Of the men who are
racing for the lowest records. began
racing this comparatively unknown. In
a year there will be hundreds crowding
on my heels with speed records fast
enough TO make me go some. / want to
keep ahead. | want TO drive mile in
" Hat and | viii, | VIII yet make the
mile stralghtaway IN 81 seconds. DO you
realize what that means2 More than $50
feet second. Fifty feet In the tick Of Il
watch Why it's flying, man. Would
you Ike TO take the trip yourself?'
Oldiiold has taken two machines TO the
coast with him One Is his l20-horse-pow-
or Gordon Bennett racer, and the other
is his famous Bullet No. 2. with these
machines he not only expects TO beat the
field against him. but he confidently ex-
poets 10 break several worlds records.