The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01

Barney meant every word of the carefully
prepared, "eNtemporaneous" speech he
mao maze at farewell dinner rendered him
one night in Toledo
But one winter of ease proved the fell
| low OF good Intentions that he had no
| more chance to quit the game than an
| ola hre engine horse long accustomed to
lemp under the harness at the sound Of
the fire gong.
So. back into the thick of the fray.
INTO the speed battle trenches. Barney
oldhcld, daredevil. took his place with
the gasoline sharpshootcrs. along the fir
ing lne OF death inviting vocation. So
get to work that he picked up almost
the first racing cars that he could Sc
cure and II was small wonder that he Lost
PrestIse with the tavorite players and
WAS soon accredited with loss of nerve
Hitherto unknown drivers with more
powerful and better adapted racing cars
began to gather in the records long cher
ished. and so precious 10 the champion
OF them all. Barney Oldheld was has
been. Like all champions. age had levied
It's toll. and old Father Time was trium-
phant over the man who had thrown so
many stones through the art glass win
do"S OF MS record conservatory. The
man oil Iron nerve. the youngster with
aonormal disregard for danger and death.
had passed. along with the rest of ath.
letio marveIs. 10 that burying ground
where all champions must repose unioved
unsune and forgotten. with no granite
monument teemIng with euloeistic
verses. The down and OUT ritual was
the burial service, so often had II been
used that IT'S pages were yellow and
barely leeible.
But sporting history was upset and
given worse shaking up than has ever
been recorded IN an earthquake report
the HALEY comet could hardly prove as
destructive II II hit the earth Is was the
shock to the. sporting regulars caused by
the report that Barney Oldaeld had re-
turned to life. The only champion ever
Kno%n tn, TO come back had not only "ar-
rived, but his . return journey made
enough noise so that all knew OF it and
there were no doubling Thomases TO de-
mand further proof.
Barney Oldfield. follower Of the most
hazardous sport in the world had come Ia
life and had performed more sensationallV
than any man In all the world had per
formed before II was the old timer and
has been who sat at the wheel OF n rae
Ing automobile and defied death laughed
a. the scientists prediction of disaster
and hurled the giant OF speed and power
miles an hour, far faster than anything
save bullet had ever travelled The
world was startled at the achievement.
The German emperor cabied the daring
sporting world gave Jeffries a better
chance TO come back" using Oldfeld's
wonderful performance as a criterion MOI
once, but n dozen times did Barney re.
peat his record stunts There was no
tluke. no mistake in timing. And TO a
treacherous mile circular course Oldneld
lilcn TOOK MS great car the RlitZen Benz
One hundred and fifty miles an hour was
the speed he attained on this course
Staid race followers. long ago calloused
by sights of danger and daring of The AN.
tomobile race track, gazed in wonder
ment while the intrepid Oldfeld shot |
around and around with the abandon of
the foolhardy youngster they knew seven
years before.
Tn good for ten years yet" said Old !
field recently, THE old flre seems To be |
back Into my blood and ambition appears
TO he driving out any traces of age EN- |
thus iasm. bubbllnG from every part Of
me. is pushing back the warnings OF cau
uon. My face may be covered With the |
scars of my accidents and ! may he he |
ginning to look the old man part / ought |
10 be playing, but the heart is Young
again, e
That 8 the only thing an old champion
needs. Enthusiasm, and that same on.
which is so essential is nothing
more or less than q strong heart full OF |
amhition, ready TO battle and win
Take enthusiasm and ambition away
from champion and YOU have him licked
II good old Jeff's heart is as young, as
mine, the picture men need not take MANY
feet OF film to the fight with them and 7
would like TO have the black creme prIyi-
lege along Wabash avenue the morning OF
July firth. He will win in single round.