1919 Cornfield Classic 200 Mile race in Marion, Indiana

 Maldwyn Jones, the scrappy old-timer who knew his way around a wrench and a dirt oval equally as well, is among the greatest motorcycle racers America ever produced.

Jones quickly developed a reputation for salvaging and refining his own breed of racing machines from Merkel’s Pottstown factory junk bin, and by 1913 was considered one of the best dirt track racers in the midwest.

Soon after the outbreak of WWI, Jones took up work as an experimental aviation engineer at McCook Field in Dayton, before rejoining the infamous Harley-Davidson Wrecking Crew in 1919 for the big 200 Mile Cornfield Classic

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