Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1914-11-13
Don Johns Puts Track Rec
ord for Motor Vehicles
Below Oldfield's S Reach in
Freak Christie When He
Does 46 Seconds
EVERY PHOENIX
RECORD BROK EN-
Except Barney's Mile-Mo-
torcycles Put Speed on
Perfect Track, But Autos
Also Lower All Competi-.
tive Marks

Although the Arizona state fair
track was worth every bit of speed
that any motor vehicle colld hav4
placed on it yesterday, Barney Old
field failed to beat Don johns mile
time of 46 seconds, nor even to equal
his own track record, set with the
freak Christie, last fall.
Johns Cyclone motorcycle is near
ly as much of Il freak as the red
Christie-certainly it is the fastest
thing that ever circled the mile oval
in Phoenix. Johns did not merely
reduce the track record set by ODon-
nell with the Excelsior-he pushed
it down and then stamped 1t in until
it will never more count as le-c1d.
The intrepid little wheeler WEI
pr"haH.y never aglm travel rs fast
as he did yesterday on the Arizona
track
1t was before tie creates crowd
over assembled at the state fair
grounds Earl Cooper, drtv.Lg his
Indlan@I oils Stutz. won the fifty-mile
race in good, easy ST. T. after enSma
tC1uule had placed 3. OldfielJ on the
side lines with a us, tess Fiat Cooper
also started from scratch in the ten
mile Ea andicap and defeated Il field
ot LllC contenders-not quite so cas-
IL however, as ~ beat the sn-1t'er
field in the free for-all. Arthur Kline,
driving the King ca" gave cooper 4
tussir ur 10 the las, mile, when fnn
Nhite S1ltz vent into the le11 on lie
l1rk st.e:ch and demonstrated its su-
pcrior speed all the way doWr 10
where 1 :on T. Shelter waggeG he
chrrkcred signal
While Earl Cocper's victory in the
fifty miller was the result of a mighty
battle with Kline in the King car, the
1914 feature seemed tame after Old
field pulled up at the roadside with
his stubby Fiat, and Mechanician
George Hill announced that "she was
done"
Cooper's time was materially re-
duced by one tire change-a change
that did not break any records for
speed. The first casing tried would
not fit the wheel, and Earl and his
helper, Dutton, assisted from the side
lines by Walter Brown and the Grip
pied Oldfield, had to get another shoe.
Meanwhile the yellow King was being
hurled around the track by the slen-
der Kline, eating up the furlongs and
making up some of the time it lost
to the Stutz in the first twenty five
miles of the race When Cooper
threw in his clutch again, Kline had a
lead Of not quite a mile and Cooper
set to work to cut it down as rapidly
as possible. Meanwhile, Billy Carlson
was grinding out the laps with his
tiny Maxwell 25 and making much of
Cooper's trouble. Tires did not seem
to be bothering the Max team, and
Dominick Basso, the mechanician.
loafed and lolled in the seat beside
William Moustache Carlson.
There was wear and tear, just the
same, and the Maxwell finished COM
ing the last two miles on rear rim.
The Start
Cooper went through his gears like
starting a touring car o4 the pave
ment-yet he shot away from the
bunch as though tied back of a motor.
Right back of him went Kline, whose
roaring getaway was the delight of
all beholders-also hearers. Oldfield's
new tangled canvas foot boards"
caught in his clutch, and slowed him
on the start, and by the time he got
on the turn there was enough good
honest Arizona dust to make ten
acre lot, if properly coagulated. The
result was that Oldfield waited until
Cooper had drawn away from Kline a
quarter of a mile before he ever at
tempted to pass the King. Finally ii
became evident that Oldfield would