New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Veteran GeeES;S Agpd
TT0tters Revelation
Performances of June Rel
and Heir Reaper Brighten
Turf History
By Frank S. Cook.

may De stateo without fear of contre
oIction among those who have follow.,
the sport that Pop" Geers has h..S
putting couple over on thu ho,.
with pair of turf antiquities he bsSs
won seven races-four straight r,@
June Red and three frsts and ana
second with Heir Reaper-and a Avs
| performances are among the illmss;s
mating chapters in turf history tIa
season. 'aS
Rarely does a man have tn. co,s
dence to lug along horses ter an
eleven years old and pit them AGAIN.. .a
the flower of the land, but this is irs.
what the grand old man is doing. sNS
the best of it is that he is rett;"a ,'a
away with 1t, and every time he lanSss
one of them in front the people cl;mS
proval. -
Both Of these trotters are We,..u
oreo ana members of families that hsy.
been Illustrious, for the Earlv Resns,s'
have lived up to their name and Is
Red Mediums have been in evidence ~
the tercest competition. When ~.
season opened June Red was the hstta.
known of the pair. This daughter ~
Red Medium came out in 1918. whsa
she was given modest time record NJ
2:29A u. Next season J. B. ChanSls,
one of the greatest of trainers and coI.
men, had her. and in eight starts h.
scored three wins. then marked her !,
2:08 at Indianapolis
Unimpressiye in 1918
This made June Red look like n,
real thing, so Dick Mcmahon essavsS
trip through the raging Grand with ber
IN 1910, but made only three starts and
did not win with her. She started hn,
once in 1916 and failed to do anvthinc
Then she went into the hands Of n"
late "Knap" Mccarthy, who started bss s
a dozen times and won five races 4.
the dispersal sale of the McCartby
stable June Red passed to Geers. and
many wondered why he would waste HE
time with the old mare. but from tbs
very start she pleased him, doing bet
Ter than anything he wintered at Mem.
phis. 60 -"'Ni'
When stake entries closed In March
and April last Geers did not name Tuna
Red in many of the headliners A. tb' tb'
| opening meeting in North Radall she
romped off with an event in o.O7I Sh'
then at Kalamazoo she dropned her
record down to 2:G6i2 in her victorious
march, She had harder time at To.
ledo, but won the race, beating Chi
coot and Alma Forbes to do Il. and
scoring 2:05l4. '"D
rms Toledo affair was So ,00o stake.
put her trst essay at the big game was
IN the $4,000 event at Columbus last
week, when she beat al impressive
field IN 2:064. Blanche Carter Prince
Loree and other good horses were in
the dust.
No less notable is what Geers has
been doing with Heir Reaper. This old
bird did not invade thc big line until
the current season. out he started in
slxty-three races before and won thir
ty,t"o of them. which is a very credit
able record. They brought him out in
Nebraska IN 1912 and he failed to de-
llVer IN three starts. Next season he
won three OF ten races and a mark of
2:ZoA,. and the following season he
+ lowered 1t to 2:15A, winning five out
OF twelve starts.
Improvement Marked
In 1915 he won half of his ten races
and quit with 2:13ia. He was getting
better, and in 1916 he landed eight OUT
OF fourteen and mark of 2:11A. Last
year he won eleven of seventeen starts
and his fastest mile was in 2:1l%.
tracks. ''''''
Geers did not turn this eleven-vesr.
old loose until Kalamazoo, where he
won IN z:06%. At Toledo he took
neat IN 2;05%, then was beaten by
Ante Guy. but at Columbus he won in
2:05A, which is the identical mark
Geers has put on his stablemate, June
Geers is the oldest among the f..
nous drivers, and these are quite The
veterans among Grand Circuit trotters
thet are winning, and the combination
is dlsprovlng what has been said sbou.
youth getting the first plateful from
the platter.
- Ante Guy. that beat Heir Reaper a.
Toledo, made fame for herself when
two-year-old and now looks to be
one OF the great four-y year-olds in con.
tentlon. 1t was in 1916 that wonder
fuI band of o-year-oIds raced in the
metropolitan circuit A. Monroe the
hfst heat went to Buck Watts and the
next two to Ante Guy, that took
race record of 2s17A4. Followed the
Goshen event, which was record
Emma Mcgowan winning in 2:131s and
Back IN 2:l5l4. Ante Guy being second
IN the ilrst heat and third in the next.
bertha McGuire took third money in
the Monroe race and fourth in that q.
Goshen, where the peerless Miss Bertha
Dlllon, 2:03'4 ranked eighth in the
summary, being distanced in the sec
ond mile
Ante Guy From Axworthy
After winning in 2:052t on the set
ond day at Toledo, ii being a sparkling
rsce, Murphy started her back or the
nItn and won in 2:06il. Ante Guy IS
by Guy Axworthy, sire of the worlds
champion Lee Axworthy, and is owned
by Leo Ottlnger. of New York. Two o.
the flllles with which she battled 50
successfully as two-vear-old now sre
headllners in the big doings, for Mss
Bertha Dillon is counted on as a likely
prospect for two-minute honors. hav'
ing worked in 2:04A. last half in one
minute, at Columbus, in her prepars'
ton for start in the free-forall 81
North Randall this week against S.
Frisco, Mabel Trask and others in the
open class. Bertha Mcclure won
heat in the big stake at Toledo and is
expected 10 arrive at the pay window
almost any week
Joe Serrill. who trains for A. I.
Coke, of Paoli. Penn. and developec.
MISS Bertha Dillon, Nella Dillon an'
others, appears to have q new head
liner IN The Divorce, a sister to Mss
Bertha Dillon. This FLY started ..
Columbus and forced Chestnut Peter
out in 2:o5A in the first heat, so she
may give her sire and dam UNUSUAL
fame.
While they might have been warned
by what they saw at Toledo, the men
who make the favorites on trottilg
tracks could see nothing but Single T.
IN the freefor-all pace at Columbus.