This is a two-part series of articles that ran in the Saturday Evening Post in 1925. They are an autobiographical overview Oldfield wrote with the assistance of William Sturm. I judge some of this material to be inaccurate, not because Oldfield embellished (not that I put it past him), but because I think he simply forgot things.
In a lot of ways, this Web site is a repository for my notes, research and errant thoughts for a book I am writing about American track racing in the first decade of the 20th century. If you read any of my updates on Facebook or follow me on Twitter it may interest you to know that most of my postings in those forums reflect a point in my book that I am working on.