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...Married. Barney Oldfield, 47, famed retired pilot of racing automobiles; to Hulda R. Braden, 35, at Beverly Hills, Calif., on the day following Mr. Oldfield's divorce at Los Angeles from his second wife...
George Sisler, aged 32, baseman and manager of the St. Louis Browns, graduate of the University of Michigan. Suave, courteous, assured, imperially slim, his genius for baseball was observed as early as 1913 by Barney Dreyfus, astute owner of the Pittsburgh club, who put him under contract before he had come of age. Sisler's father repudiated the contract. St. Louis bid for him. Mr. Dreyfus would not give him up. The controversy, a sensational one, was referred to the National Commission, which finally awarded Sisler to St. Louis. Pittsburgh never forgave...
Divorced. Barney (Bema Eli) Oldfield, onetime racing-car driver, by Mrs. Rebecca Oldfield; in Los Angeles. Charges of desertion and infidelity were uncontested...
...mangled. His mechanician fell free, damaged but slightly. A few days before, Resta had called Brooklands "the easiest course in the world." After he won the U. S. championship in 1916, and six other big events the same year, Dario Resta had occupied a niche similar to those accorded Barney Oldfield, Ralph Mulford, Ralph De Palma, Eddie Rickenbacker, Harry Grant, Wilcox, Vail and perhaps the Chevrolets-all old-school racers. He was a spectacular driver, daring and popular. He held many records, won the Vanderbilt Cup race twice running (1915 and 1916). He used to drive Peugeots, usually blue...
Reported Engaged. Barney Baruch Jr., 23, to Lois Wilson, star of The Covered Wagon, Miss Lulu Belt, It Pays to Advertise, and many another cinema...