New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-11
TROTTERS AND
PAGERS TO COME
INTO THEIR own
Series of Dual Meetings
To Be Held at Old
Goshen Track.
PRIZES GALORE FOR
THE MANY FIXTURES
Junior and Amateur League of
Driving Clubs to Begin
Their Races Soon.

Society is giving a bclated attention
to the light harness morse. and the ten
dency is largely que to the interest
created ly the members and friends Of
the amateur driving clubs throughout
the country, which stand as sponsors
of the dual meetings at the Goshen
track. for which the entries close on
Thursday.
The inaugural interclub matinees of
the Junior League of Amateur Driving
Clubs will be held on Saturday. July
q; Monday July 26, and Tuesday. July
p, and the 1915 intercity matnees of
the League of Amateur Driving Clubs
will be over the same track on July 80,
80 and 81.
Speedway driving, intercity meet
ings, and especially the races for anna
tours at the oldtime track in the Ram
apo Hills, have built up a healthy
rivalry to own and drive the speediest
sort of trotters and PAGERS and to keep
alive the zeal of the light harness fol-
lowers about New York. and a large
entry is expected in each race. The
degree of support is deemed remark
able in the paucity of high class meet
ings over a mile track in recent years.
The card for the Junior League of
Amateur Driving Clubs is made up of
nine trotting and five pacing fixtures.
The feature of the opening day Will be
the 2:15 class trot for the league cup.
the most coveted trophy OF the amateur
rensmen, and the other trottlng events
are IN the 2:09, 2:l2, 2:lS, 2:20, 2:23
and 2:30 classes, with the sweepstakes
already closed for two-year-old and
three year-old trotters. Cups are the
prizes in all but the sweepstakes, and
also for the pacing races, for the 2:l3.
2:17, 2:20 and 2:25 classes and free
for-all.
The Goshen Driving Club Cup is
added for the club winning the most
points; win to count 4 points, second
and third in the tally. All events
will be to carts, mile heats. two in
three to a finish, and non-heat winners
to 20 to stable after third heat. No
horse can be named in more than two
races and can start only once should it
win, but member may start two
horses for the league cup.
Other rules are that in case the num-
Der of starters makes 1t necessary 10
divide a race, the first horse in each
division shall start in a mile dash to
decide the winner of the event. which
is an emil ntly sportsmanlike idea.
All drivers scale at catch weights.
Mile track records are allowed four
seconds throughout the card. All
horses are classed by their best heat
records, either turf or matinee, and
must have started in two regular mat
inee events during the present season.
For the League of Amateur Driving
Clubs meeting the card consists OF the
2:14, 2:15, 2:1S, 2:20, 2:24 and 2:3O
classes, and the two and three-year-o
sweepstakes, trotting, and for the
PAGERS a 2:10, 2:15 and 2:20 class and
with the 2:15 trot and the Goshen
Driving Club cup to the club winning
the most points. The conditions are
the same essentially as for the Junior
League Amateur Driving Club meet
ing, except horses must have competed
in three regular matinee events.
Entries for the two meetings close
with w. X. Dickerson, secretary of the
Goshen Driving Club, Goshen, n. Y, on
Thursday. but the right is reserved to
accept entries after that date. Cleve-
land. the home of II. K. DevereuX, the
Detroit will furnish the bulk of entries
from distant points to the League of
Amateur Driving Clubs meeting.
Goshen, Manhattan, Westchester and
Long Island horsemen will be repre-
sented
1t is the first and probably the only
time the League of Amateur Driving
Clubs meeting will be held on a half
mile track The distinction between
the two leagues is not based on any
consideration save the length of
clubs track To hold its meeting on
anything but a regulation mile track is
a signal compliment from President
Devereux to John R. Townsend the
president of the Junior League OF
Amateur Driving Clubs, in recognition
Of the zeal of that gentleman whip, fox
hunting and light harness horse reins-
man in amateur sport. and to add eclat
to the inaugural gathering.
The Junior League was organized in
New York last winter to be precise.
on January 29-for the purpose of
stimulating interest among amateur
drivers over half-milc tracks and of
bringing those tracks into closer rela
tions and active competition.
The Tuxedo group Of reinSmen, which
includes Pierre Lorillard, jr., W. A.
Hartman, Richard Delafeld and John
X. Townsend, are recognized as the
pioneers in the movement. and II. X.
DevereuX's decision to swing the Big
Line League" to the historic Goshen
course was in appreciation of this fact.
as we'll as direct compliment to the
Junior Leagues president.