The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-04
The Latest Sporting News From Everywhere
KING GOT
START IN DAKOTA
He's a Range Broncho, But
Goes Around in
200.

Goes Around in
zoe.
Detroit, Mich. June 4.-Every now
n then a freak trotter or PAGER gets
into the grand circuit game. Some
OF them, like Butcher Boy, the dock.
ed-tailed hybrid from Wales, never go
farther than the entry lists, while 9TH
ers race. This a there will be a
PAGER in the thick Of the fray that
VIII furnish a lot of food for reflec-
ton on the part of the heavy editorial
writer's on the turf papers il he hap.
pens to make good. Reference is made
to Tom King. that Is among the horses
IN the chamber of commerce and other
pacing stakes.
Tom King had a nightly lowly start
Tor a has with stake aspirations. He
came east with a lot Of range horses
and sold for $25. Somebody found out
That the broncho could pace and then
ne was put to training. Tom is q very
small gelding. standing fourteen hands
and two inches and weighing $50
pounds, but he showed last year that
size does not cut much of a figure.
In his first start in North Dakota, in
July. he was third in 1921 1-3, and the
next week he won in 2:16 Ia. lower
ing this mark to 2:14 IA in W weeks
IN Wisconsin,. then slipping down t o
from IT,.
He was second in 2:11 Ia in a start
after this and took a trip to Oklahoma,
where he drove a winner out in 2:1O,
and finally made Halle Direct step in
2:OS Id to beat him. This work on
the half-mile tracks convinced his
owner that he possibly is doomed to
greater things. hence the lavish ex-
penditure In entry fees this cal.
Two Real Old Sports.
Two others that are not freaks in
the matter of ancestry are to try for
grand circuit honors this year and are
Gray Gem and Maj. Brine, respectively
IA and IS years Of age. 1t was no un-
usual thing in the SOS for old-timers
to race. but nowadays horses are ant
to be at their best by the time they are
E or Z, SO the old sports are interest
ing.
Gray Gem was a good race horse in
his day and won some notable events.
He was mixed up in a scandal which
caused the retirement of some Of the
principals and for nine years the geld
ing was in retirement. Last year they
brought him out and he was second
IN 2:O6 at Syracuse, which took the
tuck out of him. Snow has wintered
the old chap and has him at the De-
troit track. This clever driver says
that age cuts no figure with Gray Gem,
for he is as timber as an eel and prom
ises to go the a c of his life this year.
|. With Maj. Brine it is different, for
he has been campaigned for eight con-
secutive seasons, has participated in
about 800 heats and won 100 of them
and a record of 2:04h. His earnings
have been.about $50, 900. and only last
year he Won $4,000. Maj. Brine is at
Readville and apparently in as good
shape as he ever has been in the
he will make a lot of trouble in all Of
the events In which he starts.
The S%uffragette Stable.
Mike McDevitt, who graduated from
the rolling mills at Pittsburg to be-
come the champion heavyweight driv-
er Of the country. will have the dis
tinction this year of racing a stable
of mares down the circuit. Not that
the genial Mike and Capt. David Shaw
persuasion, but they have had better
luck with the suffragettes of the race,
so they are pinning their faith to the
feminine gender.
At present the stable is made up of
Joan, ?:O4A, the best of her year and
a likely member of the free-for-all
brigade if she stands work; Grace,
2:05k that won the futurity and rae
ed to her mark last year, showing that
she has every license to again lower 1t
in her 5-year-old form: Peggy from
Paris. 2:12, that stepped into the spot
light last fall, and is regarded as one
of h best in her class; Alice Pointer.
2:O5k a very fast thing that may be
given an educational trip with the
1913 stakes in view; Miss Plumbine, a
clever 4-year-old, that will be trained,
matineed and probably put in storage;
a ~3-year-old flly by Cochato that is
said to be another Grace. and is being
trained for the Futurities.
One solitary stallion in the stable is
Count Daschkoff. by Peter the Great.
and McDevitt will try him in the colt
stakes. The stable is a strong one and
it will take some mighty trotters to
trim the females that will be chaper-
oned by the big driver.
Much Expected of Anvil.
Anvil. which colt won the M. & M.
stake of 1911 and would have captured
q number Of other races but for lame
ness which put him on the shelf for
the greater part Of the season, is
counted on as one of the sensations Of
the current racing season. Without
question n of the best 4-year.olds at
the start of the grand circuit and until
after his clean cut victory in the De-
troit classic, this stallion has the adj
vantage of a long rest and a years de-
velopment, which should make him
better h a he promised to be in 1911.
Mr.. Geers has Anvil at Memphis and
has given him a slow and careful
preparation. Those who have watched
his steady improvement are of the
opinion that he will be very freely
talked about in the fall. and the grand
old man smiles when the subject is
discussed. for he likes the horse and
is a firm believer in his greatness.
Some even have limited that Anvil is a
dangerous factor in the struggle for
the stallion championship this year,
and while it is asking a lot for the
horse to trot six or seven seconds fast
er than he did to win at the fair
grounds, it is not an impossibility.
1t is known that Geers hated to see
The Harvester leave his stable, for he
had to do with the triumph of that
stallion. However. he is not taking 1t
much to heart. for Anvil has won the
place Of the other horse in his affec-
lions and the patrons Of the light har-
ness turf would applaud wildly II
Pop should have the luck to drive a
new champion.
ACCORDING TO RULES.
In Milwaukee a few days g Ralph
Capron made a wild dash for second.
| heat the ALL slid mast the bag and