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Show JOHNSON iS DEFEATED WHEN HE MEETS A BETTER IAN THAN JEFFRIES Colored Prize Fighter Floored for the Count in Attempting to Down Barney 01d field"First Five Miles Was an Easy Victory for the White Man Sheepshead Hay. Oct. 23. Harney , Oldficld, the automobile driver, easily defca'ed Jack Johnson, the heavy-welfiht heavy-welfiht champl.m putlllst In a five-mile five-mile automobile race here this alter-noon. alter-noon. Ob'leld won the first two boats of the contest, making a third heat unnecessary. OlddeM won the first heat with a IcuJ of :i ipiarler of a mile, covering the distance In 4 minutes min-utes and t seconds and in the second hat lead Johnson at the finish fifty ards The time for the second hent XVH.H .r minutes 14 2 seconds. Xew York. Oct. 2" Co-idltlons b-oked fuw.rable todav for the auto match race between narney Olddeld nnd Jack Johnson. Unfavorable weather hnd twlc caused a postponement of the match, which Is for the best two io three heats of flv miles cuch. Hoth men have spent hours on the orT8e every' day for more than : week, and today each seemed confident confi-dent of a clean victory In this after-t)n after-t)n g events. The suspension of Oldfleld by the auto racing authorities for makincr the match with Johnson, combined with the personalities of the contestants, contest-ants, tend to cause wide-spread Interest, In-terest, and there was every Indication Indi-cation that, if the favorable weather prospects of the morning were made Rood, a large crowd would witness the race. Barney Oldfleld easily defeated .Ii.ck Johnson In the first beat of five miles khlch was covered In 4 minutes i and 4 4 secends. Oldfleld was quicker to got away ami he made every post on the course a winning one, finishing about a quarter of a mile ahead of the negro. |