Oldfield Wins Desert Race.
Barney Oldfield, “master driver of the world,” is the title the automobile speed king now is wearing.
Greeted by 15,000 cheering people, Oldfield drove in his car, a winner of the 671-mile Los Angeles-Phoenix road race.
Although led into the fair grounds seventeen minutes by Nikrent, Oldfield won first place and a cash prize of $2,750 by thirty-six minutes elapsed time. Oldfield’s elapsed time was 22 hours 59 minutes, and his average[Pg 56] was 29.1 miles per hour. Nikrent’s time was 23 hours 35 minutes.
The 134 miles from Prescott, the second-night control, was driven in mud, and the drivers and cars were covered with a coat of clay.