The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-29
GOING AFTER HIS RECORD
BARNEY OLDFIELD WILL ATTEMPT
 TO MAKE NEW FIGURE.
Tires Tn Good Shape, Track Propi- ti0us and Driver Determined, Fair Visitors VIII See Things
 Saturday.

After an inspection of the Vandiver
 Park track yesterday afternoon which included sending a car over the course the small amount of wear on thes tires, Barney Oldfeld, the famous auto driv. CT. announced last night that he would positively make a record attempt dur ing the automobile day races at the fair Saturday afternoon, going for all
 worlds track marks up to fifty miles.
 For four years Oldheld has held for
 ty-six out of the fifty worlds records
 ranging from one mile to fifty and the
 great driver has made no special at
 tempts to cut the marks except in five
 and ten mile races where he had to drive hard to beat a tough competitor The present records were made by Oldheld with the famous Green Drag on" racer which was built by a well | known automobile factory in America. | Now Barney Is driving a foreign made car with twice the horse power of his first love and after finding that the | vandiver Park track would be easy on tires and would not cut up on the turns he decided to put the marks lower than at present. believing that 1t can be
 done here with comparative ease. The announcement came as a surprise to the fair management as Oldfeld's
 contract with the association called on-
 ly for his appearance in short dis
 tance time trials and three heat race
 at a distance of five miles. against
 Kirscher and any other drivers that
 might be selected to compete against him.
 Oldfeld has never been charged
 with being grand stand" driv- CT and usually fulflls every prom
 ise of speed he makes. When he does
 not make as good time as he predicts, 1t must be charged to unfavorable
 conditions, so 1t can safely be predict | ed that those who journey to the auto day races tomorrow afternoon will have the satisfaction at least of know ing they saw Oldheld trying hard to get real worlds records at much greater distance than he has gone in | four years.
 Every care will be taken by the local automobile club to have the time ac- l curate and accepted as official by the American Automobile Association con- test .board. The records which Old field will seek were made by him on mile horse tracks at Los Angeles and | Fresno California.
 But the record breaking stunt will | come after Oldfeld has finished his | three heat race with Ben Kirscher the noted German and his 100-horse power | car. Ktrscher has been working on | his big car far into the night during
 the past few days. adjusting and test I ing each nut and bolt and the vital parts. To beat Oldfeld on the eve of | the opening of the Atlanta Speedway | would give the German great prestige l and get for him a huge slice of ap- pearance money. So, Saturdays races
 should go down in automobile racing history as a real event or series of events that will make the auto world sit up and take notice of the Vandiver Park track and Montgomery.
 Oldheld was introduced to the crowd at the fair yesterday afternoon by
 Rube Shields and the audience gave
 him a loud welcome, showing that, all though the star driver has never raced here, his fame has preceded him to
 the extent of making him a warm fa-
 vorite, not alone with the automobil-
 tsts butgwith the masses who evident
 ly are anxious to see in action, the
 man who has defied death so often and
 who has been smashed up half a dozen
 times but again went gamely about
 hIs task of breaking records and win
 ming races after he was able to leave
 the hospitals.
 Last night oldfeld and a number
 of his friends were guests at a ban
 quet on the Western Railway private car rendered by General Passenger
 Agent J. P. Billups.