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Show BARNEY OLDFIELD HAS PUBLIC WITH HIM IN HIS ROW WITH MO BODY Famous Driver Is Popular as Ever in Spite of Suspension Sus-pension by A A. A;, Intends In-tends to Enlist Oct I 22 By Otto Floto s DENVER, Oct 1 The body known at tha A. A. A. aoama to bo tha perennial weathercock of tha motor world. Thay ahlft and change their announcements and opinions about aa easily and readily aa a woman changea her mind. Wa noticed not long ago an announcement of tha auaponalon of Barney Bar-ney Old field. Karl Coopor and other fa-moua fa-moua drlvora who have dona mora for automoblllng and Ita allied In t areata In ono year than tha wholo A. A. A. haa dona tlnco that auguat and arrogant body came Into, estate nee. Tha glat of tha whola affair la that laat fall the oonteat board of tha American Automobile taeoclm.on wrote all reglt-Itred reglt-Itred drlvera a letter eta ting that thay waro auapandlng their nlaa until aftar tha war. Thla lft all regiatered race drlvera free to act aa they might oaa fit. Old-field Old-field Immediately negotiated contracta with J. Alex Hloan and secured many prominent and leading fair engagements. No aooner had all theao daala been promulgated pro-mulgated than tha A. A. A. conteat board changed their mlnda and withdrew their former announcement. In tha meantime, however, tha cotitractt had been made and It meant either filling them or being be-ing aued by the fair aaaootatlona with whom oldfleld had contracted aa a apodal apo-dal faatura. . It meant tha dleappolntmant or thousands thou-sands of farmers and great Injury to tha falra. which are being encouraged by tha admlnlatratlon everywhere. In other words. It bordered onto a patriotic dutv on Old field' a part to fulfill hla contracta. con-tracta. Failure to appaar aa contracted leo meant lawsuit a for damages,-end aa Oldfleld la perfectly aolvant, tha fair aaooclatlona could hava recovered aub-stantlal aub-stantlal auma. Furthermore, thara waa J. Alex Hloan to bo conaldered. Ha haa laid out large auma In preliminary exploltattono of Oldfleld't tour. Ha alao could hava aued and recovered. 8o there waa nothing left for Barney to do but "go through with hla contracta like a man." Thla ha did. and- now ho la auapanded by tha A. A. A. But why ahould "tha daddy of 'em all" worry over tha action, of the conteat board of thla narrow minded organisation? organisa-tion? Ha will and hla racing career at the Mississippi state fair on October 21 and then enter the ranks of tha army to aid Uncle 8am wherever ha can. He will probably be assigned to teach as-pi as-pi ring amhulanca drlvera how to negotiate nego-tiate tha roada to Berlin, and wa want to aee If tha A. A. A. haa audacity enough after that to auanend an "ace" In the aervlca of hla country. Barney haa tha public with him. Ha haa tha farmers with him, who art being be-ing entertained at the falra by hla marvelous mar-velous driving. In facl ha la far mora valuable to hla country, In many capach-tlea. capach-tlea. than tha A. A. A , and aa choosing between them tha public would a thousand thou-sand tlmea rather auataln Barney's sportsmanlike position. - |