Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
WILL
OPEN SCORES
corbin to Be Given Handicap of One
Mile in Ten Against the
Darracq-Fred
Shaw

In local automobile circles the live
liest kind of interest is being awak-
ened over the coming events of Satur-
day and Sunday next a Ascot park
The arrival of sturdy Barney Oldtield
has stirred the local talent to the core
and all along the line there is some
thing doing"
Go where you may, the heartiest
kinds of words are extended the pop
ular racing driver, who has in season
and out of season gone on making
records fer the other fellows to catch
up to and endeavor to break,
Though Oldfeld has had many ad-
mirers locally and all over the coast
for his daring driving, nothing has
made the king of the automobile race
track such n popular favorte as his
personal gameness in investing his
own money in his own cars, buying
them outright, carrying his own driv-
ers and driving himself and establish
ing new worlds records with the reg
ul9ritv of his appearance on the tracks.
This takes nerve. 1t not only requires
the best kind of physical and personal
nerve. but that is the beauty of Old
held-he is ready to back his nerve
with his own coin and all that he
possesses.
Barney never has a word to say
about what he is going to do but he
goes out on the track and does what
he thinks he can do and promises the
public he will do.
For years this prince of the race
track drove cars for the factories, and
when they didn't handle their cars to
suit him and as he thought they should
| be handled he gave up the employer
and became his own master. He had
saved some of his hard-earned money
and had the confidence in his ability
! to build a car or buy one that met his
| conception of what a car should he,
I bought it outright and then proceeded
! to make the world take notice that he
| knew his business, and that is all that
! Barney knows. He makes his living
giving to the public the most daring
| evidences of his unmeasured nerve,
and always makes good" That's
why the public likes Oldfeld. That's
| why they flock to see Barney on the
| track. Wind to Oldfeld is only pres
eut when he is making it in his racer,
Oldfeld is to give the public a start
! ling sensation on Saturday and sun
! day next. He publicly states that he
Will go on Ascot park track with his
! huge Benz and do better than fifty
| three seconds. and it is dollars TO
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made good. Another thing about Old
! field: He never makes any preliminary
/ trips over his tracks. He never goes
near the track till he is to take his
/ place at the starting line and his car
and he are ready. He knows whether
/ his ignition Is right, whether his car
| buretor is performing its functions
| there is no fiddling about with this
| and that. He is ready at the moment
| to 60, and that is Parney's success i'm
! his prOfession-always ready. No NUT
| tering about awful track, no scoffing
| at turns or ruts. He knows he is to
1 make the attempt with conditions as
/ they are, so what's the use grumbling
| Along with Oldfeld is Ben Kerschel
with the 100 horse power DarraCq, one
| of the most powerful machines even
! sent along a race track. and the
| "Dutchmau.' as he is called, knows
nothing but to drive his car at the
most fearful speed, regardless of track
and sttll another of Oldheld's cars is
+ the great siX-cylinder racing stock caI
/ KnoN, which is driven by the daring
/ Yankee driver of Springfield, Mass
young Fred Shaw.