Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-08
viii Complete Arrangements Tor
His Races Against Bert
Fuller
EVENTS OCCUR SATURDAY NEXT
Friday Night q Big Au!O Parade o.
Fihy.Two Machioes VIII be Given
In Famous lhludcurs Honor

Harvey OllGod. the worlds greatest
autocar driver who, within the past tw1
weeks has added fresh claims to hls title
By sending hIs own records glimmerlng
Is due Iu salt Lake tonight at ll3V tic
win repair 10 the Kenyon and tomorrow
wlI complete nnal arrangements tor his
appearance here against Bert Fuller n
tho Wc'l known car 1889 which has %
record OF two Of us own TO it7 credit
Friday night AN automobile parade all
be given iu Barney Oldncd's honor DO
which cycry one Of Salt Lakes So ma
chimes have been requested TO participate.
by Dr. II - Scott sccrctory of the Salt
Lake Automobile club. An electrical sup
ply company has chartered car Tor the
evening ana will head the procession with
am illumination that will be elaborate In
every particular Hed's band viii be on
duty I'm the parade, which viii be a biz
event iu local autocar circles
Saturday at Agricultural park Olddell
viii appear In the FIRST wen matched race
to occur In Utah We have seen 1893
sweep around the track I'm hair-raising
time but the only competitor was q whole
lap behind. and there was none ot the elt'
ments OF a race in the running
Odhtld has this year replaced hts fam-
Ous Mnt0n Bullet with Peerless Green
Dragon. and drove II against time IN Den
yer last Saturday for new worlds records
from II To- ~ miles The Denver accounts
Of the exhibition refer 10 Oldneld as the
Human Comet one account states;
NO Caesar ever bowed 10 the plaudllS
Of the people with more confidence W. nus
power 70 rule MS empire tgan dld hhr,
ncy Oldhed while crowd, maddened
with enthusiasm, carried him ON thelr
shoulders from the track TO his dressing
room under the grandstand.
"lustead Of purple and inc linen ana
the regal ermino. this monarch ot motor
drivers was clad In Lincoln green. as
We're Robin Hood and his daredevil 6anG
| In sherwood forest And IN their defiant
rccklegsnoss. Oft told 90 story ana song
was found parellel in the foolhardnesi
Of Barney Oldneld who rode In the
| shadow Of death every rod ot the twenty
miles the green dragon Numbered over
Had he been spinning along IN inc mos
luxurious Of palace cars, without "a care
i'm the world Banrey Oidheld could not
have been more calm and collected az the
green dragon fairly sailed over the dusty
EVERY mile Of the Journey he calcu-
| lated 10 an exact nlCey before ne maze
| IL. Tie set his own pace and he followed
| H. For the first ten miles he made NO
| effort 10 break a record, but he rated ms
| net along as a crack jockey would a
| thoroughbred trained 10 the hour 10 ~
a derby distance
"With ten miles done, OldAeld went
| after the worlds records, and be did not
miss a one When he had gone htteen
| miles. the scheduled distance, he was 81
| puhianl over his success. made. KNOW
ythe cheers of the crowd, that ne KEEP
| on for five miles more ana cach mll'
| hc went he broke another record,
| But more excited than the widest o
the spectators rOuder than Oldheld
| King Of his Claes-Was modest dark
haired woman, m0dlshly gowned, who oc
cupied O box In front Of the grandstand.
AMID the whlrllng clouds OF dust sh,
| watched. pale one moment the next ner
yOusly fumblng al her fan.
"'He is such e foolish fellow-my Bar
ney lie takes bis life IN his hands To-
daw-tomOrrOw. lie laughs at death. An
/. a woman must do the best ! can u
be a good fellow Oh what Q hollow
mockery there IL In that word.
"Mrs Barney Oldheld. woman u
green-that was her gown Her eyes o
! gray Her hair-thats dark and curs
More than Of passing height, Mrs Old
fcld watched her husband whrl arounD
the track at Oyerland-one moment hys
terically laughing the next calling on
10 a half dozen friends.
"When 1t was all over she heaved
deep sigh and then, as II Jealous Of tn
homage bestowed upon him by strangers
She bundled nj mintO a biz automobil
ard carried him on 20 town,
The management Of the machine ''@e
took advantage of the fact that Oldiel
was In the west and remained over ]
Salt Lake after the recent exhibition IN
hero. I'm order 10 secure race with hin
! Only 10 cities In the United states hay