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Show 0LDF1ELD WINS THE j I SECOND LAP IN RACE PresODtt, Ariz. Nov. 10 Barn.v Oklfield, winner of the first leg yes terday. plunged through mud, beat out a cloudburst and won the second leg of the seventh annual Phoenix road race today Forty-seven minutes and twenty-one seconds to the good he will start from here at 10 o'clock tomorrow and battle his way against tlnu and the elements 134 miles down to Phoenix, the finish line. Olin Davis, fourth into control at Needles yesterday, winner of last year's "cactus derby." as the race is called, checked In here second today at 2.09.01 mountain time, followed by Louis Nikrpiit third, at 2; 18:36 Oldfleld came in like a catapulted mud cannon hall at 1:05:45. Allow Ing for the difference in Pacific and mountain time, his elapsed tlmo was 8:18:45, fourteen minutes better than the runner up. Yesterday Oldfleld had a clear lead of six minutes over Durant, who has now dropped back from second place. The addition of Oldfleld 8 elapsed times on the two legs gives 17.04.40, with Davis n xt Rain poured on the already moist clay roads early in the day. fftttj miles away Oldfleld sighted a cloudburst cloud-burst that deluged the road just as he thundered his way safely from under un-der it. Starting second from Needles this mornlnc. Oldfleld overcame Durant's two-minute lead. He put a gap of nineteen mlnmcs between himself and Davis, springing his rear axle and roaring into the finish on flat rear tires. The finish at the Phoenix fair grounds tomorrow will give the winner win-ner In addition to the purse a medal and title of "mMter driver of the world." oo GRANITE-WEST SIDE GAME SETTLES TITLE Salt Lake. Nov. 11 The football! practice for this nfUrnoon and tomorrow tomor-row will end the period of hard training train-ing for the players of the r.ranlte and West Side High school elevens, which will fight for the state championship Friday afternoon on the Granite campus. cam-pus. The contest will start promptly at 3:30 o'clock and promises to bo one of the greatest Interscholaatic football battles ever played in this J stat e. Both teams are in the best of condition con-dition nnd the coaches are confident of winning. It would be a hard matter mat-ter to figure out the relative standing stand-ing of the two tenrns on the past dope nnd for this reason only the students of the two schools are willing to bet their money. |