Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-08-17
Says Secretary Knight Of
the American Trottin9
Association

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by Geo. F. Barnard of Royalton, is
ringer, according to the following ad.
vicss and Mr. Barnard is to be barred
from the association.
! Geo. F. appeared in the ice races
held here last winter and showed q
clear pale of hesls. ae won 81, 900
| purse in the races at Duluth st week.
The Borse Review of lass week has
the following to cay regarding the
horse:
':5ecretsry W. 81. Knight of the
American Trotting association. has
run another ringer to earth, but not
until his manager had gotten of with
a pot of money. Las, Friday, in COM
pany with q gentleman competent to
pass Judgment, Mr. Knight visited
Duluth, Mlnn., and established the
fact that the much. .discussed north.
western PAGER. George f., 2:12H, is
none other than Walter H., 2:l4A, the
grey g:ldi, g by Civilian. "a O62,
whose record was made at Chillicothe,
O. in 1908.
The So called George F. created q
sensation last season by appearing in
the green classes In Wisconsin, Min
nesota and the Dakotas, making re-
markable campaign, the year book
crediting him with winning 13 out OF
l9 races AID retiring with record Of
2:l2H, made at New London, Wis,
September 80. During his progress he
attracted much attention and was once
protested as ringer, it being then
claimed that he was really CORTLAND,
2:l74, by Manager, 2 O6M. This
was investigated by the American
Trotting association and he was
found not to be Courtland, who was
located elsewhere. At this time
George F.'s owner, George F. Barn
ard Of Royalton, Minn., produced af6'
davite, etc., which seemed to prove
satisfactorily that George F. had been
| urchased by him f:om Frank Town.
send of Grand Meadow. Minn., who
had purchased him from Frank Wolf.
gram. who bred him; and that he
was fcaled there in 1900 and was by
q holss called Jubilee, dam Flora,
by Hamdallah. 2,9l7.
Barnard invited the American
Trottipg association 70 make the full
est inquiries, as he courted ttem, and
said that he was perfectly willing to
continue racing George F. and have
the winnings held up until Secretary
Knight was perfectly satisfied that
the horse was straight. The seeming
straightfor wardness Of Barnard, the
documents which he produced to sub
staotiste his claims which proved
up and the falsity of the Courtland
claim, resulted finally in the paying
over Of all the gelding's winnings,
amounting to some So, 800, by the
American Trottirg assocition.
The talk that George F. was q
ringer would not. however, down and
in the early spring fresh accusations
were male in the public prints by J.
T. Collins, secretary at Page, N. D.
To these Barnard made renewed de-
mails and threatened Collins with
suit for libel, etc. Nothing since has
been heard cf the affair until last
week.
':Mr. Knight it seems, had again
got busy This time he struck the
Tight trail It led to Mechanicsburg
O., where inquiry elected the fact
that in the lac winter or early spring
Of 1905. c. ". Pnellis had sold the
grey geldlng Walter H., 2:l44, by
advertisement and letter, to George F.
Barnard~of Royalton, Minn., shipping
the horse to the stockyards at Chicago,
where his new owner received him.
photographs Of Walter H., taken
before he was shipped to Chicago,
and the CORE spondence concerning
the sale were furnished Secretary
Knight, who at once reopeoed com.
m uni cations with Barnard. The lat
ter then claimed that he had sold
George F. to man Damed Harris In
New York, whose address he did not
give This looked suspicious and Mr.,
Knight remained vigilant.
Last week George F. was located,
still in Barnard's S hande, at Duluth,
MINI, where it was learned that the
was to start in match race on Sat
urday. But on Friday, Secretay
Knight dropped into Duluth, accom-.
panied by j. H. Conklyn, the well
known Mechanicsbure horseman, who
identified the ringer at sight.
The case will be tried before the
board of appeals in December, when
Barnard is booked for an expulsion
that will probably be for life. he had
taken extensive and elaborate precau.
tions to escape detection and almost
succeeded
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