Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-06
MAD |S
 WHAT WE ARE
 SAYS OLOF|ELO
Reckless Auto Scorcher Is h. tereSting Talker--HaS Killed Five People In Accidents
 Says Danger Draws Crowds

Barney Oldheld, premier motorist. in Phoenix to Democrat reporter and the man who is willing tO sac rifice his fife and blood on the altar of a highly seasoned sport is the man who will become the sensation of the hour. It is not enough that We have palatial trains which are the marvel of the inventive genius of the brain fest me:s;; t is not enough that We have wonderful speed creations, but there must be men found to drive them-there must be men found will ing to sacrifice their lives if neces- sary to run them cn scheduled time or faster.
 We are becoming 8 race Of speed mad people. As for our sports, they are beginning to savor of the rough and brutal. Many people deny this. bat let me show y0l what ham driv- ing at. You heard of the Burns Johnson fight few days ago, when the purse was larger than any purse ever offered previous to this time We'll. how many ol the people that attended that fight would have been there had 1t been advertised in ad- vance that there was to be no knocK-
 
 been one-half of them? Not on your life.
 But you say that prize fighting is brutal and is not patronized by the elite; that they do not like rough sports. Well. how about football? By that mean the college game of foot ball as played by Yale, Harvard, Mich igan, Pennsylvania, Chicago. Minneso- ta and many other colleges? I have attended many of these games. There you will SC the so-called elite. The benches are crowded with flashing eyed school girls, who, with red cheeks and clenched hands are bid ding their favorite gladiators to tear them up.
 ''If man is hurt rom the side that they are cheering for there Is a groan. If, on the contrary, il is from the oth- CT fellow, 1t is a cheer. No, sir. thIs football is no game for mollycoddles, and the best people in the land ap- plaud it.
 Take basket ball, roller polo, la crosse, hockey and water polo, a we'll patronized and let me assure yod that they are not pink tea affairs Mild and gentle games like tennis. golf and ping pong may be scientific, but they are not conducive to gate re- ceipts, but the games with a casualty list are certainly there strong.
 Then, again, get away from the rough games and take the attractions that really attract. There was a great falling of in the attendance at circuses a few years ago, and the wise managers Tacked their brains to bol- ster up the gate, and what did they do-add a few attractive and gentle sports? Well. hardly. They put in the loop the loop, loop the gap, and in fact, the loop the any old thing as long as it was dangerous. And Vt were all there to see it. But when we found that instead of being killed that the performers died of old age then we tired of It.. and they are fix ing up other things for us.
 What do I consider the most dan gerous sport or attraction. Well auto racing holds the palm by a great way. Why, you came nearer to see ing a fatality yesterday afternoon l than you ever were to it at a circus when Hughes went through thos' fences. Suppose that instead of clear Ing HIS nedu tHdI CBe OI muse scdut ling had penetrated his body! YoJ know when you hit fence, you caI never tell where the timber Is goiEs to go.
 q speak from experience. I have been through perhaps a dozen fence. and have killed five spectators while doing so. I have a few marks my self which go to prove that you don l always get off scot free"
 With that, Oldfeld brushed bacl his hair. which he swings low to on'
 side, so that 1t hides a great re, welt, and showed many other marks proving here death had reached eager ly forth and missed his prize by bu narrow margin.
 ''Yes, call this the most danger ous sport of them ali" he continued Take the list of the killed and main ed at the auto game. There ar, Croker, Armer, Kelly, Satori. Szizzac Felker. Dasey. Vaughn, CheyroIet Green, Savin, Riser, Webb, Jay and a score of others, If I wanted to take the time to name them. Every time you circle a track under the minute 1t is just a question such as a little flaw, the breaking of the tiniest part of steel and then the people will say Well, he was going some