Word: oldfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden...
Died. Charles Leslie Thrasher, 47, magazine illustrator famed for his quaint Saturday Evening Post covers; of pneumonia contracted after he was overcome by smoke in a fire which razed his home at Oldfield Village, N. Y.; in Port Jefferson...
...away from home, became a mechanic, a waiter in an insane asylum and later trainer to Barney Oldfield in the days when Oldfield was a bicycle racer...
...wedged an unlighted cigar between his teeth. Close behind roared a motorcycle policeman. At the hamlet of Santarita the car slowed down and the motorcycle drew alongside. The speeder stopped, pushed up his hat, ripped out his cigar. Said he: "Yes, I am Barney Old' field To Speeder Oldfield, first man ever to drive an automobile one mile in one minute, now a special advertising man for Chrysler Motors, the policeman handed a ticket for driving 60 m.p.h...
Fifty-five, fat, still recognizable by his cigar, Barney Oldfield last week engaged in his first race in 16 years, an absurd "Jinx Derby" to advertise the Chrysler exhibit at Chicago's Century of Progress, where Oldfield heads a staff of 20 exhibition drivers. Oldest car in the race was an 1896 Tallyho made by the Chicago Vehicle Co., which had not been moved for 34 years. Others in the field of 13 were an 1897 Stanley Steamer, a chain-drive International, a 1904 one-cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver...