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...drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask, of the cigar stump which was already as much one of its features as a nose, looked like a death's head. Driver Barney Oldfield had left school to be waiter in an insane asylum, left the asylum to be a bicycle racer, left his bicycle to work in the Ford auto factory. Last week Barney Oldfield, now 53, was at Daytona Beach, Fla., as was Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird...
...Barney Oldfield, after seeing Blue Bird perform, said he planned to beat Sir Malcolm's record with a 32-cylinder car built like an inverted canoe. Unlike Oldfield, who could not even ride a bicycle until he was 17, Sir Malcolm Campbell learned to drive a car when he should have been in school, learned about motors by tinkering a second-hand motorcycle. When he inherited £250,000 and a seat on Lloyd's (where his life and car are insured for a total of £20,000), he continued to experiment. In 1909 he built an airplane...
...Died. Barney Dreyfuss, 66, vice president of the National Baseball League and owner of the Pittsburgh "Pirates"; of pneumonia following two operations for prostatitis; in Manhattan...
...year to the outstanding amateur athlete in the U. S. The tribunal of 600 sports leaders gave Bobby Jones twice as many votes as his nearest rival. This year the balloting was closer. Out of the panel of ten, selected from 100 nominees, Pennsylvania's bulky, bristle-haired Barney Berlinger finally won by two votes, 424 for him to 422 for sleek little Helene Madison, null swimming champion. who had 70 votes more than Helen Wills Moody...
...Manhattan trackmeet, Barney Berlinger once took off so heavily for a pole-vault that he crashed through the end-board of the runway. Pole-vaulting is not his specialty any more than weight-throwing, wrestling, boxing, baseball. Considered one of the best all-around track athletes in the U. S., he won the decathlon for the third time in a row at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival last spring, took more points than any other contestant at the Intercollegiate Indoor Track Championships. Later, he was the leading member of a U. S. track team which toured South Africa. Voters...