Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-29
MIDDLE IN HARNESS DATES
meetins CsllcO "a StcwatUs % Ulano
Circuit to Strengthen matters.
EASTERN TRACKs THREATENED
Columbus Refused Dates for second
Meeting and ,TraditionaI LexinE-
ton Exhibition, Nest rapport
nnt Of Nenr, Tapped.

nat Of Year, Tapped.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S,--There Is to be a
New York end to the Grand Circuit. even
though the Empire track is to be closed TO
the light harness horse. A special meeting
OF the stewards OF the Grand circuit has
been called for January ~ in this city, az
which an effort will be made to clear away
the muddle in dates created by the organl-
Aation OF the Great Genital circuit which
has arranged circuit that threatens to
break down completely the Eastern Grand
circuit meetings which, for some reasons.
have already had more than an ordinary
share Of troubles.
The trouble dates from the meeting OF
the Grand circuit stewards in Buffalo. on
January H. which refused Columbus the
dates asked for It's second meeting, and
arranged a big line" that Tapped the
traditional Lexington meeting the most
important Of the year and independent Of
the Grand circuit. The setting back OF Col
umbus vii carry the Grand circuit TO Sep
TENDER 25-Ootober Z. and for nearly thirty
years the Lexington meeting has claimed
the first two weeks Of October. There was
q committee Of four appointsd-Fred
Postal. II. w. swisher, De Forest Settle
and A. J, weloh as associate to wait
upon the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breed
ers association to urge Encouragement
Of dates so as not to interfere with the
Columbus meeting and TO also invite the
Lexington association 10 join the Grand
circuit.
scouts the Idea,
At the annual meeting in Lexington OF
the Kentucky Horse Breeders association
the president-elect. Robert c. Stoll,
secuted the idea Of abandoning the dates
held for so many years. He said that no
invitation had been received to join the
Grand circuit and that Lexington had no
idea Of doing so, Recently the dates OF the
Great Central circuit we're sent out from
Columbus. comparison Of tho dates
gives the positions OF the two leagues In
the duel for territory control;
Grand Ciroult-Indianapolis, July lO-15;
Grand Rapids July f-22; Kalamazoo. July
A-29; Detroit driving club, July 2-August
s. Cleveland August 7-l2, Buffalo, August
14-ls, Goshen, August 2l-2e: Hartford,
August 2S-september Ills; Dsgrolt Estate
fair) September 1928; Columbus September
25-October Z.
Great Central Cirouit--To Cleveland, same
as above; then Columbus, August 14-26;
Joliet, August 2s-septemher 2; indianapolis,
September 1928; Columbus, September,
$3.50; Lexington. october s-1l
VIII 10 somethinE.
The Grand circuit special committee will
probably report the results Of the over
lures to Lexington at the New York meet
ing OF January 30, which is a convenient
day for horsernen as IT marks the start of
the midwinter horse sale. At all events.
something must be done to save the east
ern circuit and prevent the best horses
remaining west instead OF going on to
Buffalo. One suggested action is that the
stewards OF the Grand circuit might amend
! their rules and declare Columbus an outlaw
track and that a horse starting there
could not afterward compete on the track
of q member in good standing, This
would bring sauareIy to the front the
! strength of the two factors. 1t has been
held that in the middle west for'some sea
sons that the Grand circuit has a dead
end. but that It is a live wire until Buff
falo Is reached,
Joliet, indianapolis and Milwaukee have
held a grand western circuit meeting for
some years on the dates assigned by the
Great Central It is claimed by Grand
circuit followers that instead Of a regular
organization the latter merely stands for
Il. w. swisher and the Columbus Driving
association. who acted alone and without
authority in announcing the Great Central
circuit. This does not ease matters for
the east, II the dates iii, Mr. swisher
said on Saturday he had a letter from
II. X Deyereaux, president OF the Grand
circuit stewards, asking the Columbus
Driving association to delay announcement
of its dates to see II some satisfactory ar
| 70 h.
may indicate a compromise at the New
York session OF January 20,
COncIIiats BFeedars.
How far "a the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders association behind the new plan?
The Great Central insures to It the time
honored dates, and in some quarters there
is an idea the Lexington folk have been
engineering a eall-down to the Grand cir
cult stewards. At the Buffalo meeting the
stewards voted TO admIt Memphis TO the
Grand circuit. and II is expected there
will be such races there the week after
Lexington. To break the Grand circuit
and then resume it, becRuse an independent
meeting Is in the way, which makes one
track more prominent than the combined
stewards, Is not 70 the fancy OF the lat,
ter, say some OF the reinsmen They be-
lieve play has been made by the stewards
10 induce Lexington to come into the fold.
The most serious part OF the complication
is the effect, II no change is made, the
new circuit will have on the wabblins
eastern light harness horse meetings. The
applicants for a Grand circuit meeting at
Goshen are said 70 have assured the stew.
ards the present half-mile track would
not be used. Instead full mile track is
avaiisble on the Hartman estate, and a
new concrete grandstand could be ready
by August q and the track put in fine
order with no opposition TO keep away
the cTackerJaek mass, the improved Goshen
course should be the scene OF most bril-
| liant racing