Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-10
OLDFIELD IS FIRST
TO REACH NEEDLES
Three Drivers Hurt and Four Cars
Damaged in Race Across the
Desert from Los Angeles.
MILLER EARLIEST TO PHOENIX
Driver Wins Run from FL PnsO 90
that City, $40 Miles, I'm Four
teen Hours and Thirty
Five Minutes.


teen Hours and Thirty
Five Minutes.
NEEDLES, Cal, Nov. 9.-Barney Old
field was first of the Los Angeles
Phoenix road racers into control here
this afternoon He arrived at 2:22h
Durant. No ., was second in half a.
minute behind Oldfield.
String out over Desert.
BARSTOw. Cal. Nov s.-With r. C..
Durant, driving car No. out In front
with a margin of six minutes, the leaders
in the seventh Los Angeles-Phoenix
trans-desert race are strung out on the
toughest going of the desert, bound for
the first control Needles, on the Colo
RADIO river.
Barney Oldfield driving No. S. arrived
here first, 1876 miles from Los Angeles,
at 9:1o a. m. His lspsed time was three
hours and forty minutes Olin Davis,
No 4. was in second. three mours and
forty-three minutes from Los Angeles.
Durant's time here was three hours and
forty-one minutes, but he went through
in hurry. leaving Oldfield, who stopped
for new fuel supplies. Baudet, who left
Los Angeles first, checked in fourth.
Nineteen cars were in the race at this
stage, but four we're badly damaged and
| are not expected to reach Needles, l6l
miles away.
Three drivers hurt were the casualties
up TO this point. F. J. Pink, whose car
was ditohed fifteen miles out of Los An
! geles, is In a hospital at San BernardinI.
but not seriously hurt Sprague and
| Buckius, whose car, No. le, overturI ID
in the desert, were painfully bruised. but
continued in the race with their damaged
! car
Twenty-One Cars start.
! LOS ANGELES. Cal, Nov. 9.--Slither-
I ing through water-covered streets and
i highways, twenty cars darted out OF Los
] Angeles today on the seventh annual road
| race to Phoenix. Ariz A heavy downpour
] starting at a. m. turned streets and
roads into rapid watercourses, but that
hardly diminished the speed of the racers
| at the start
The first car, manned by T. j. Beaudet
at the wheel and M McConners, relief
| driver, started at $50 o'clock. The others
followed at two-minute intervals.
Three days of varied driving over speed
way. desert, mountain and unbrldged
stream face the pilots. Six hundred and
seventy-three miles OF the hardest racing
the Desert Classic has ever offered will
be divided into three spurts.
Tonight the racers will go into control
at Needles. Cal. aOs miles away. Tuesday
night they will rest at Prescott, Ariz.:
Wednesday morning they will make the
last dash of lS4 miles for the money prizes
OF $3.50 and for the medal and title OF
master driver OF the world" the reward
OF the Phoenix winner.
Fast Field of Drivers.
A fast field Of drivers has been at
tracted by the spectacular nature of the
road test and by the glory Of eonquerinE
its seventies. Barney Oldfield Louis
Nikrent OIL Davis and Louis Chevrolet
are among the drivers. For Chevrolet
this marks his return to the racing game
after an absence OF four years.
While the drivers race toward the sur
"howdy' special train carries a train
load OF enthusiasts 10 the controls.
The five leaders made the first sixty
miles In one hour and a half. William
Pink, who started eighteenth, was badly
= hurt fifteen miles out of Los Angeles
; when his car skidded into a ditch. lie
i was taken 10 a hospital IN san Bernar-
n dino. where the place at the wheel of his
p car was taken by his assistant, Ely.
1 The list of entries follows:
! No. Driver and Mechanic.
81 l-Beaudet and McConnors.
&c. Durant and r. Lawrence.
3-E Schneck and c. Schneck.
i 40. Davis and Alley.
y 5-Oldfield and Hill.
Z ed. Anderson and +. BEDFORD.
Nv. Carlson and u. Hesse.
] 81. Nikrent and JanoWski.
9-Wing and Parrish:
2 1O-Kincaid and Greenwood.
III 1l-Snow and Kendall.
. I2-W. Taylor and Rex.
= H-Foulke and Hahn.
3 iO-H. Ellis and u. Ellis
= lG-Sprague and Buckius.
: III. Burns and McMsster,
! 1S-Pink and Eley.
h-Bramlette and Nelson
O-CTevTolet and Angle.
I-Du Bots and Camnetu.
Miller wins Race.
, PHOENIX, Ariz.. Nov. 9-Hugh Mile
: of Phoenix won today the El Paso
p Phoenix road race OF S23 miles in l:4S'
reducing last years time more than tw
hours.