The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-19
president Jones Says That
Course Will Be Sold for
y Factory Sites.
G.. X. &. BILLINGS is TIRED
OF NEWSPAPER N0T0RIETY
SmatIlers Will Donate Gold
Cup to Amateurs for
= Mule Race.

AS q result of continued publicity of
newspaper matter IN connection with
The charges, the trials, and the after
moth of the famous race for the Mem"
phis gold cup between Major Delmar
and Lou Dillon, c. *. G. Billings may
order the gates of the two minute
course at Memphis, where the contest
was decided, closed forever and the
property subdividcd for manufacturing
sites.
+. G. Jones, president Of the Memphis
Trotting association, is authority for
The statement that no harness race,
whether at matinees OF at professional
meets, is likely to ever take place there
again.
The publication of an offer of Z. T..
Smathers, to donate the now famous
gold cup, which he won IN 1904 driving
Major Delmar in the final leg for per-
manent possession, for Il mule race, IS
believed to have caused the decision
which will end in the demolition Of the
track that can lay claim TO a majority
of records made by the world IS fastest
PAGERS and trotters hitched to both
wagon and sulky.
Already serveral designations from
the Memphis Driving club, which had
planned for the regular summer season
Of matinee racing, have been recorded
in that exclusive organization, and in
cludcd among the number being Car
uthers Ewing, who was authorized by
Mr.. Smathers to make announcement of
his willingness to donate the valuable
gold trophy for n single mule dash for
ameteur drivers behind mule trotters.
Trainers Soon to Quit
Meantime Ed. Geers, Ben Kinney,
Millard Saunders, Myron McHenry and
several other trainers and drivers who
are conspicuous IN the grand circuit
races each season, are conditioning their
PAGERS and trotters for the coming har-
ness season.
Millard Saunders has little less than
twenty sons or daughters of Sidney
Dillon, sire Of Lou, Stanley, Dolly and
other members of the famous Dillon
family. All are property of Sterling
Holt the Indianapolis harness enthusiast
but none Of them have been given fast
miles or repeats and will not be hur'
1Ied until real summer weather sets in
Within the next month Geers
will ship to Libertyville to finish the
rourse OF training in a climate more
like the climate he will encounter al
the Grand Circuit meets. Ben Kinney
will ship direct to Cleveland. Millard
Saunders may ship to Columbus. My
ron McHenry is undecided where he
will put the final props on the small
string he will start out with, but il
L Il A hn
visit Savannah soon and undertake tht
handling of Nut Boy and others in thu
Crabtree stable.
In the Geers stable is a promisin;
green trotter that the local railblrd
have paid considerable attention to o.
late, not 80 much for the msrvelou
bursts of speed shown, but for the i'm
movement in each work administered
to him by the "Silent Man" High
ball is the name of the trotter tina
Geers is showering lavish attention on
and although Sphinx~like in communl
cation as ever, the Tennessean is be
lieved to have set his eyes on the M
and NJ stake for Highball.
Just where GeeTs got the horse doe
not seem clear. Pursuing former Gus
tom, Mr.. Geers left here during tn
fall months of last year and made
trip around the ''half- f-mile circuits
of Alabama and Mississippi. 1t wa
in this manner that Geers .discovere
Billy Buch, the biggest money winnin
trotter of a few years back, and wit
Billy Buch, Geers swept the Grand Cll
cult Of some of it's choicest stak
pIums, including the Massachusett
$4,000 stake and others approximatin
100000. Last year Gcers sprung Al
dele, the biggest money winning mare
and this year it is believed that he ha
a big winner in Highball.
Will Sell Horses.
Billings's decision to sell Major De
mar, 1:593i. along with his other horse
may result in the champion gelding g
ing into the hands OF someone who wi
exhibit or race HIM in public or I
someone who will try to win the inte