The Detroit times., 1913-11-18
CEERS WILL PUT
IN WINTER AT
MEMPHIS CAMP
Returns Home Third in List of
Money Winning Drivers on
the Grand Circuit
ONLY MURPHY AND cox
BEAT OLD MAN TO COIN
Capture of Merchants < Manu-
facturers' Stake at Detroit
Was Pops Feature

Geers. the grand old man OF the grand
circuit, has settled here for the win
ter and Will occupy the same training
quarters that he has used during the
off season for several years. Geers
will winter the majority OF the horses
with which he won on the grand cir
cult. and already several stake pros
poets have been shipped TO him for
preparation and "sampling.
During the season ending last
month, Geers ranked third In regard
TO money winning, taking $53, l43 OF
the big ring purses and stakes. he
is topped only by Murphy, with $Il,-
945, and Cox, with $60,373. II was
thought that at the opening, last July
al North Randall, Geers was certain
10 give the man to place hrst with
regard TO money winning hard run.
but within a short time not few OF
his stables were. what was reported
at the time. ready for the hospitai
and did not hardly recover for the
flag end OF the season.
He. however. despite the handicap,
which came in the form Of catarrhal
fever. not only finished we'll up, but
in every respect upheld the record
that has characterized his perform
ances on the big wheel for the past
score OF years.
Pop" was also third being led by
the same two, in placing during 1918.
or his times out the veteran tailed TO
place in the money in but 80 races.
He drove a winner Is times. came
second on 10 occasions, third l21a,
and received his entrance money for
fourth position ~ times. having &C.
cepted a mount In all on SO occasions
This. OF course, does not include
the times that Pop" drove outside OF
the circuit. AZ during September ne
took Etawah, the great three-year-Old'
outside and captured several events,
Geers was at the head OF the list
In returning the. years largest indi'
pidual money winner. While not be-
ing the largest Of the grand circuit
Etawah goes into winter quarters the
winner OF $24.663. The little blind
trotter establishes new worlds rec
ord for three year-old by this
amount taken. topping the record OF
S22.S00, made by Benzetta, IN 1894.
He was campaigned by the local
driver in six races and took each.
with the exception OF two. handily
The little bay was out OF the money
only once, that in the Western Horse
man stake, at Indianapolis. where he
showed such an offness OF form that
he was drawn Horse fanciers will
remember his purchase at Clevelanc
at the opening OF the season.
Geers' most prominent performance
OF the year was his capturing OF the
Merchants and Manufacturers $4,000
stake. at the Blue Ribbon meeting, In
Detroit, when he. after losing two
heats TO Andrews, behind Tenara.
came back with Reusens, the Ken
lucky gelding. and placed his sixth
victory of this event to his credit.
Reusens comes second in the Geers
string. with money winning, taking
Sl2,963, and placing the veteran driv-
err in an exclusive class, he being the
only driver to put two horses above
the $4,000 mark
His trotters as money winners FOL
lowed With Anvil Dude Archdale.
Bertha Carey, and Creosote.
with his pacing string, Pop had
chief money winners in Don Dens.
more and The Assessor.
Another position held by Geers
horse Is that OF Anvil. Frank &.
Jones black stallion. that comes
fourth with an enviable trotting rec
ord, being outpaced only by Cheney,
Marigold. and Lord Dewey. Anvil, In
eight Starts. paced four firsts to his
credit, coming second three times, and
being unplaced once. Cheney, the
leader of the trotters. has record
of FIVE firsts, one second, three fourths
and out OF the money twice, showing
that there Is very little difference In
the stations standing and what would
nave been another first place for the
Memphian.
Geers seemed to get away on bad
foot at the opening, and 1t was not
until the meeting at Kalamazoo That
he forged to the front with anything
that marked preceding years OF rat
ing. Here he became the cynosure
of all eyes in the turf world, when
he took the main event OF the Horse
man futurity with Etawal.
During his career on the big wheel,
Pop has never once been under sus-
picion and II is a frequent thing that
he is placed behind some horse from
another stable by the judges. Such a
thing happened the day OF his victory
with Reusens. in the Michigan city,
when he was ordered by the judge TO
drive a horse in another event that
had not made the most impressive
showing In two heats. The horse did
nothing better than fourth, but the
officials were satisfied that the conn
oence placed in Geers was not mis-