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Show oo OLDFIELD WINS TWO STATE FAIR EVENTS Phoenix, Ariz. Nov. 12 - Before the largest crowd that ever attended the Arizona state fair. Barney Oldfield. In the same car In which he carried ofC first prize in the Los Angeies-to-Phoenix road race, won two events at the fair grounds this alternoon. In I the fifteen-mile race Oldfield was first In 14.54. Gasser in a Slutz. finished second and Smith. In a Buick. third. Oldfield won the five mile race In 4:59 from Miller and Hutchings, both of El Paso. The feature of the day was the fifty-mile race, with $2000 first mon-ev. mon-ev. Earl Cooper, in a Stutz, finished fin-ished first in 43:53, winning from Klein, in a King, and Maxwell, in a Stutz. Oldfield drove his Fiat Cyclone Cy-clone In this event, but was forced to withdraw in the twenty-eighth mile on account of a broken Water connection. |