Show AUTO RACING IS 18 HARD GAME Oldfield Tells of Some of His Wild Experiences on Track MENACE TO SPECTATORS FUN ON STRAIGHTAWAY BUT DANGEROUS ON CURVES That the rating racing game Is no cinch in is ina illa isa a certainty for Barney Oldfield long regu regarded ed as Americas premier milea minute motorist has haa gone on ecord as declaring the sport a to th the safety of all contestants on oval Ival vs I tracks Barney B was found at the le t au automobile show last week In a Retro Retrospective retro tro mood and was asked for tor an opinion on the racing subject which was ins given a thorough airing by the theA A AA A 4 A officials Friday at their session In the b First Regiment armory 0 I tell you the racing game IB is no nc t f cinch said Oldfield Sixty miles mU s an art hour is IB fun when youre on a straight straightaway straightaway away with a clear road ahead but whan when you get on a or mile mil oval Its a hard game gume to play Did DidOU you OU o ever evor or think that the turn of a halt hal mile oval Is no sharper that making a as al wide a turn as you can on an street And a driver thinks hes going some when he takes a corner at fifteen or fir twenty miles mlle an hour Now think of going RUIng four times as fast around the samo 5 mo corner and begin to real realize n al alIze ize iao what you are up against t when you hit th the racing game Sensation Hard to Describe Its Ifa pretty hard hud to describe de cribe the sensation en but as 11 near as I 1 can come cometo cometo cometo to It t it la is this When I was a boy we had a swing hung hun from a big elm with ropes about fifty feet feat long lone Oft Off Onto to one side was another tree which came just right for tor our purpose and we a platform right up In the top Wed get up there and haul up the swing board with a n kite line Then wed unfasten the line and one of us would get In while the others would hold told the board boord Then one two three and what seemed med an endless drop oil off Into space Then up U up up with the earth dropping away awa An In Instants Instants instants stants halt and then down again Its the same sensation In racing only different if that means any an thing And in tn a race the sensation lent all aU either youve got to think quick almost every second To mak time youve got to give her hr a hitch and pull pun her up quick to start her skidding fifty or a a hundred feet IK be before fore fora you ou get to the turn Then the car slides around easy Must Guess Right If It you ou dont guess right or any thing goes wrong Its ninety to om one that its going to be a case of wooden overcoat and Dont he look natural Theres The s the other fellow too and the dust and a thousand and andone andone andone one complications Ive had two or three accidents and got out more b bluck by luck than good sense and each on was caused by a tire getting ripped oft off the rim or blowing up on me About three years yeans ago I got wise to a new equipment that looked good to me My detachable tire has a piano wire tape vulcanized in the base b f to keep it from stretching and that thant bunch of wire has got to break before the tire can be forced off That looked right And the universal rim looked right light too and I put the th equipment on my Green Dragon That was three years ago and it its s sa a fact fart boys that I had a tire come off or a single blowout since and the old Dragon has cut through the air at a pretty lively clip on sev several B Beral se eral hundred occasions during ducting that time |