Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-10
BY ID. w. sENTPLE

ing a few spare seconds to his reserve
until the twelfth, in which Barney came
limping home from the last turn on
three tires, the rear wheel having re-
ceiVed puncture and his chances for
making the 25-rnile record were gone.
After replacing the punctured tire
Oldheld started to make the five-mile
record his, and he did it after one of
the most brilliant making of miles ever
seen on the coast. His time was
4:24 1-5, making a lead of one and four
fifths seconds over the time Of 4:26, a
record which also belonged to the great
De Palma.
The ten-mile race proved to be an
exciting event. with the giant Knox,
Oldfield at the wheel, the Corbin,
which now belongs to the Seeley Igni-
tion Coil company, and the Cadillac at
the pole, and never has there been seen
better driving than Oldfield, Living
stone in the Corbin and Beaudet in the
Cadillac displayed. The Cadillac, for
which no pretentionS of enormous
speed are made, maintained all the
consistency she has shown in every
race of the past. Tho Corbin was in
the best condition she has ever been
in, and the running she did proved the
little car now passed into other hands
is a jewel on the track.
The time of the Knox for the ten
miles was 9;42 3-5, while the little four
cylinder Corbin, with half the power,
gave Barney a hard chase, coming in
on the time of 9:56 As, which, with the
handicap given to the Corbin in the
last race, would have won from the
king.
Benz Too Much for Darracq
The race between the Benz and Dar-
racq was another exciting event, but
the Benz proved too much for the
freak, Oldfield's time being 446 15.
In the fve-mile handicap there was
the most spectacular finish ever seen
on the local track. But the spectators
say they would like to know on what
possible basis the judges and referee
could make the handicap of ten Sec
onds for the Corbin, when it had been
proved conclusively in the ten-mile
race the Corbin should have had the
fifteen seconds allowed which had been
agreed on. Livingstone was so in
censed he backed his car off the track
and refused to run, but later returned
to the tape rather than mar the race.
Oldfeld, always fair, said to The Her
miles for all there was in her, wide
open, and she can go no faster than
she did in that event, and [ am salts
fed to give Livingstone the fifteen Sec
onds, even though he beats me, for the
Corbin is running better than any time
I have ever seen it run, even on the
eastern tracks. I know he will beat
me, but will give him the fifteen Sec
onds" But the referee held to the han
dicap as he had made it, and gave the
Cadillac forty-ive seconds.
The manner in which the Corbin tore
off the miles was the cause of rounds
of applause, and Livingstone held the
big fellow we'll in hand for the first
seven miles, when the Knox crept up
on him and took the lead, and Liv-
ingstone was fed the dust of the track
for the remainder of the run by Old
field, who was driving the giant for all
she was worth. The Knox made the
five miles in 4:46 1-5 and the Corbin in
Ass, including the ten seconds handi-
cap, or one second slower than the
Knox. The Cadillac made it at 1870
gait.
There was a magnificent audience
present again to see for the last time
for a considerable period the favorite
and popular racing king, and Barney
surely satisfied all that he is well back
in his old-time racing form. If he
keeps up the fever he is in now for
records there may come moment
when he shall go once too often, for
few realize what it is to travel about
a circular track at a fifty-two-second
pace on an earth bottom, but where
ever he goes he will meet thousands
of friends he has made in his ambi-
tious efforts to own all of the records
of the world from one to fifty miles.
He and his party leave for New York
Wednesday morning, and they Will go
later to New Orleans to attend the
Mardi Gras carnival races.