The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-06
0LDF|ELO TO Be
IN WINNIPEG
Big Meet August II With
Barney as the Chief
Card.
MOTORCYCLE G.
Purse of $500 Offered For
Twenty-Five Mile
Event.
MOTORCYCLE G.

Winnipeg. Aug. 6.-August II has
been slected as the date for the big
professional and local automobile
race meet which will bring Barney
Oldfeld n his team Of racing driv-
ers to Winnipeg. For this meet eight
events are planned. with Il % mile
race for a purse of $500, open to all
drivers as the big feature. aside from
the record driving of Oldfield himself
in his 300 horse power Christie car.
Homer c. George, manager of Old
field and known as one of the i'm
portant promoters in the United
States. arrived in Winnipeg last night
and made this announcement. Today
an effort will be made to arrange with
the Automobile club and the Dealers
association whereby the race meet
will not conflict with the run which
has been announced Ivy the two or
CARNATIONS. 1t is believed that the
organizations will. listen 10 the pro-
posals of Manager George ana en-
courage the coming of the bis racers
Barney is known all over taa world
as the greatest drive" living. This
season he has been Gr!r:nr il won-
derful form since his ESTABLISHMENT
after Il veal and a half Of 'filenass,
because of a race asniN~t J.ci: Josn-
son. He has Il wcaG&rIN c:. Il? tas
3C0 horse power Christi. mi lie has
been lowering records ~t,rHAcsnIt the
west. His most important mark was
q mile on the dirt rae in 50 Sec
onds fiat at Portland. July 10 with a
newspaper man as fellow passenger.
Saturday night he drove at Regina in
1.0S As. which is the fastest made on
a half mile track this year and beats
the mark made at Toronto by Dis
brow. Oldfield is driving in the same
spectacular style as of old.
AS members of the Oldfeld team
he has two noted drivers in Lew
H%einenlann. who drove the Marmon
for two seasons in the Vanderbilt u
and other aces. and Wild Bill
Fritsch. a middle western driver of
note. who administered a sound de-
feat TO Teddy Tetzlaff at Portland
when the latter was driving his 100
Fiat with which he won the Tacoma
road race. Fritsch is driving a fast
Cino while Heinemann has the Prince
Henry Benz.
"Our races here will be oren to the
world" said Mr.. George last night.
we will endeavor to bring a number
of other professionals here and COM
pete ON an open basis. We will offer
4 purse of $500 for a % mile race and
will give other inducements to at
ciilI iEo HUN dil pdItS VI NIIlaQd
and from the states. Such liberal
prizes will no doubt attract IL big en-
try list n give Winnipeg the great
est racing she eve had. The events
will he run at the kirkfield track and
we are willing to make almost any
Kind of wager that Mr. Oldf1eld will
drive the fastest mile ever made on
the track. Barney has such conf
dence in his car that he has accepted
4 proposition to race at the Mime
sofa state fair free if he does not
drive the fastest mile of the meet.
He has made the same proposition to
the fair board at Detroit and is will
ing to make it anywhere. He will
drive Saturday on a two mile straight
way at Calgary, the club insisting up
On his return after seeing him drive
on the half mile track.
we want to give the Winnipeg
people a really great meet and ask
patronage n support only with the
conditions that we give an attractive
program with an entry list Of inn
portance for each of the eight events
we will give. We will put on two or
three motorcycles races in conjunc-
ton with the auto events"