The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-19
TWO PUT IN ONE.
New Racing Circuit Is Really a
Consolidation.
Northwestern Missouri and Kan
sas-OkIahOma Combine.
PRIZES FOR RECORDS.
Will Be Offered for Best Marks
on the Circuit.
Il. 7. Kreipe, Of Topeka, the
President.
PRIZES FOR RECORDS.

The following account of the new
racing circuit which was formed this
week to include Topeka was pub
lished in a Kansas City paper:
THE Northwestern Missouri Trot--
ting and Pacing circuit ana part OF
the old Oklahoma-kansas crcults
were consolidated at meeting at the
Hotel Baltimore into the Grand West
ern circuit, with a present member
ship of nine cities. The membership
is limited to ten cities, and there are
two applicants for membership, one
of which will be Wichita and the 9TH
err Hutchinson, Kan. The admission
of one of these cities will be decided
at some future meeting.
zone of the innovations of the new
circuit will be a purse of $500, which
will be given as q reward to the driV-
ers making the best records IN the CIR
cult. The driver with the greatest
number of winnings will receive 500,
the second $50. the third $50 and the
fourth $50. Free stall rent Will be
given all horse owners.
THE consolidation of the circuits
into the Grand Western circuit, 1t is
expected will attract the best class
of horses in the country. Last year
Topeka, Leavenworth- and Emporia
were in the Kansas-Oklahom circuit.
The Western circuit Included the
towns of Ottawa, Hutchinson, Wichita
ana COnGyV1iIe.
According to several of the pro-
moters of the new circuit. the old cir
cults were too long and The horses
tired before they finished The circuit.
As O result the races Jagged and the
interest in the meets died out. With
but ten cities in the new circuit, it is
expected that the horses will be fresh
at the finish and that all of the towns
will witness good races.
1.-THE officers elected for the Grand
Western circuit yesterday were: Presl-
4 emit. r. T. Kreipe, Topeka, Kan; vice
president. Gus Cannon. Brookfield. Mo-;
secretary and treasurer, f. M. BoulWare
Monroe, Mo. The cities in the new cir
cult and their representatives yester-
day were: Fayette. MO. Willard
Smith; Monroe. Mo-, T. NJ Boulware
Brookfield, Mo, Gus Cannon; Excelsior
Springs, No. DR.. f. A. Lowry and j. u
McDavid; Independence, Mo-, w II
Johnson; Leavenworth, Kan, M. y
Hamilton, c. A. Sparrow and c.. E
Snyder; Topeka. Kan, r. T. kreipe;
Emporia, Kan, D. p. Cowan; Seoaha7
"The dates of the fairs and the har-
ness meets are: Fayette, Mo. August
? to 5; Monroe. Mo, August 8 to Il;
Brookheld. No., August 16 to Is; Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo-, August % to rs;
independence, MO. August so to Sep
TENDER 8; Leavenworth. Kan, Septem.
Der to 8; Topeka, Kan, September 10
to II; Emporia, Kan, September 20 to
"a; Sedalia, Mo, September "a to 81.
''The purses for the events as decided
on will be: Trotting events, 2:15 stake
$1,000: 2:17 purse. $500; 2:19 purse. $4OO;
2:24 purse, $500; 2:30 stake, $1,000; g.
year-old stake. $40O .2=year-old stake
5000 Pacing: 2:o6 purse. $500; 2:0s
purse $500; 2:12 stake. $1,000. 2:16 purse,
$500; 2:2O stake. $500; 2:25 purse, $500;
3-year-oId stake, $400; 2-year-old stake,
$500
"a purse of 500 will be given wher-
ever a track or other record is broken
during the season.
"The running races will be under
the rules OF the American Trotting as
ISOLATION"