Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-05
RYALL READY TO
MEET OLDFIELD
CHALLENGE FOR NEXT SUNDAY
is ISSUED
SAYS HE CAN BEAT RACER IN
STOCK CAR
Hot Records with Electric Timers Are
Promised - Story of Italian
Car Purchase Is
Denied

1t is amusing to those interested to
read t. local automobile news dished
out to the public In the local columns
of the press of Los Angeles. One Of
the silly rumors of yesterday was the
story that Jimmy Ryall, the worlds
champion track driver, was about to
purchase the a-F'raschini stock
car, now the property of the Motor Car
Import company. The idea never even
entered the head of Ryall.
There is no car in the country that
the young driver knows better than
the Italian, and none of which he has
a higher opinion, but he has no more
intention of becoming the owner of the
Isotta than he has of purchasing the
new postoffice. Aside from this fact
is the further one that the Motor Car
Import company has no idea of selling
the car to any one for the present as
stated in these columns a few days
ago upon so good an authority as Fred
c. Fenner.
As a matter of fact pertaining to the
future of Jimmy Ryall, The Herald may
announce that this morning, through
negotiations carried on by the edito1
of these columns up to last night, ar
rangements may be closed for the
stock car with which Ryall wishes to
go against Barney Oldfield Sunday
next. If one semicolon in these nego-
tiations may be removed at the final
interview this morning, Ryall will be
seated in the pilots wheel ready to
make the race against Oldfeld and
give the king of the racing game the
run of his life on the Ascot park track.
RyaII Issues Challenge
His statement through The Herald,
exclusively, is very clear. In 1t Ryall
says:
Il will race Barney Oldfield on Ascot
park track Sunday, January 8, the date
on which Barney is scheduled to ap-
pear on that track, in q stock
car with Barney in his six-cylinder
racing Knox, three five-mile heats.
Should there be q tie for the first two
heats, I will then permit Barney to
take his big 120-horse power Benz for
the final heat, 1 to retain the same car
in which the first two heats were
driven, and will undertake to say that
[ can beat him the final heat, with no
greater power than forty-five- horse
power in the car which 1 am to drive
as against Tarney's 120-horse power
racing car"
Late last night William H. Pickens
said to The Herald man:
Barney will meet Ryall on the
racing track Sunday with his Knox"
If the negotiations in hand for the
car for Ryall to drive are concluded
today Sunday will see two of the fast
est daredevil drivers in the world on
Ascot track.
Manager HernpeI this morning be-
gins the repairs to the track prepara-
tory to the records to be attempted by
Oldfeld, Sunday, large force of men
being put to work, not only to scrape
the track, but with picks and shovels
to remove all the bumps on the last
turn, and Oldfeld promises, with these
repairs made, the fastest driving ever
seen on the Pacific coast will be done
on nday by his big Benz.
Will Have Electric Timer
Another novel feature will be that
of the electrical timing device. After
a conference between Oldfeld and
Manager Hempel held yesterday, they
decided at their own individual expense
to wire the manufacturers of the cleo
trical timing device to express the
timer for Sundays work. The pur-
pose of this is that while the very
best of timers have been always in the
scorers stand at Ascot park, fully
checked by others with time watches
on the track and in the judges and
grandstand, there are papers through
out the east, that will naturally say:
well, Oldfield, of course, may have
made the time, but the only true way
to catch racing time is by the meth
DDS prevailing on the speedways of the
east and, as Oldfield is going against
the twenty and ,tWenty-five-mile rec
ords as well as an attempt to break
10 nf the world If is
best to have the additional check
against him of the device used on the
tracks of the east in addition to the Of
fetal timers, as all of Oldfeld's rec
ords are under sanction and go on
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