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Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...
...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
...Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
...hard even with the sun shining. Weary, disheveled, muscle-sore were the seven contestants at the day's end, but for one man up went great cheers which he, wrapped in a blanket, acknowledged with a tired lift of his hand-cheers for Bernard ("Barney") Berlinger, Penn's "one-man track team." He had won the decathlon two years in succession and he won it again, hands down, as everyone knew he would, beating his own carnival record in spite of bad conditions...