The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-31
Fast Miles Driven by Famous Pliers. LOCAL TRACK RECORD
 BROKEN BY OLDFIEID Big Event Curtailed When Tires Tear From Wheels. kirscher, the Germsn crsck, Driving HisA Power Car canet over- take American Rival But Makes Most Excellent
 Showing.
 

| Tn almost record breaking time. and
 before large crowd of local automo-
 bile ehthusiasts. Barney oldfeld. the i worlds champion driver, in his 120
 horsepower car. won two close five-
 mile heats from Ben Kirscher the Ger
 man champion. in his 100 horse power
 machine. yesterday afternoon at the l Vandiver Park track.
 During the afternoons races, Old- l neld lowered the mile record on the
 local track from 5s to 65 4-5 seconds
 and the i've mile record from min.
 1ses 70 l.s seconds, to minutes and
 The. fame of Barney oldfield and
 the fact that he would drive . high | power car. attracted many people to | All the local automobllists were there besides many other people who were out for the excitement of the races. l The grand stand was packed to oyers track was lined with people for ai-
 most quarter of mile beyond the
 The races were exciting. too, for
 length of his car. Many time during | the nve mile heats, Kirscher would | push his little car ahead. but oidfieid
 managed to come in strong at the crowd watched and cheered. oftimes. | too. when the two cars were bonnet | and bonnet on the other side of the | track. the people would crane their one was really ahead.
 Racing at almost a miie-a-mfnute, | the turns were skfffuily negotiated by 1 the drivers. and this. in itself. was a throng Of onlookers. The dust on the | local track was thick and the first | race raised cloud which hung over
 the track until late In the evening. HNaA ofar rAAA oh a@ ter 2 o'clock Kirscher first gave a one mile exhibition drive against time and he made it in 60 seconds nat. He drove his 100 horse power machine and the little car fairly leaped around the mile oval. Tn his exhibition mile race, Oldfeld established new record for the local track of 55 4-5 seconds. Louis Chevrolet. the famous French driver made a record of 56 seconds at Vandi- yer Park last April during the auto.
 Recsrd Brekcn.
 Tho five mile races for the best two | out of three heats were next pulled off. l Oidfeid won the first heat from Kirs- 6 smfhufes and, Ss s5b seconds. ibreak. | fs6 .Aeconds by Dewft here last April. i. Tn ffe aecond heat OidneId made the | five miles fin s minutes and SS seconds, thereby establishing q new reeord on on races were exceedingly close and in-
 Foiiowing this. oldneld started on his fifty mile exhibition race and ne attempted to break his own record for | this distance of AS minutes 70 l-b sec onds, which was made at Fresno, Cal, | December 13, 1904. On the sixth mile one of the rear tires ripped and the | race was interrupted. He made the six miles in minutes and AS seconds | After ten minutes delay occasfoned by change of tires, Oldheld made his second attempt for q record for the hfty-miie distance. But unluckily the | rear tire gave out at the end of the twenty-first mile and the race was called of.
 oidheId, however. made record time in this exhibition, as far as 1t went, | in comparison with his former record. | He made the first ten miles in min | utes and 3S 2-5 seconds. The time re- l corded for the first fifteen miles was 14 minutes and 29, seconds. and he fin- l ished the twentieth circuit in 19 min utes- and 16 3-6 seconds. This was an | average speed per mile of 57 4-6 sec onds. and his average time per mile of his former record was bS 2-5 sec onds. The races yesterday afternoon were held under the auspices of the Mont gomery Automobile Association for the American -Automobile Association' The York, starter; Major R. E. Steiner. s. Gassenheimer and pr. H. 8. Persons. all of Montgomery. judges; A. M. Ken nedy, T. M. Mizell and W. s; Webber, all of Montgomery. timers: H. J. Bell. secretary of the Southern Automobile Association, and J. E. Andrews. re- corders.
 oIdheld and Kirscher will leave for Birmingham this morning where they will race Tuesday which is Taft Day In the Alabama city.
 The summaries:
 one mile exhfbition: oldfeid. time. 56:4-5 seconds; Kirscher, time. ;5s sec onds.
 Five-miie race. best two out of three heats:
 oidtteld: ..'.. .. .. .' ''''...''5 ,
 Time, first heat, 5 minutes and 39 4-5 seconds: necond heat. minutes. sS seconds.
 Fifty mile exhibition race against time Oidneid. time. first ten miles. minutes and 3S 2-5 seconds; fifteen miles, IA minutes and 29 seconds: twenty miles, 19 minutes and 16 3-5 seconds.
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