The sun., 1919-07-06
GRAND CIRCUIT WILL
OPEN THIS WEEK
Seasons First Meeting VIII
Be Staged at North Ran
\ dali Track.
BIG ENTRY RECEIVED
Twenty-Five Races for Trot-
ters and PAGERS Are Listed
for Competition
BIG ENTRY RECEIVED

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 5.-Twenty-fvs
races will be contested at the inau-
sural meeting Of the Grand Circuit,
which will be held over the North RAN
DALI track next week. Eight OF them
are for PAGERS and seventeen for trot"
tiers. Ave of the latter being dashes for
two and three-year-oids. The pro-
gramme also presents Ave early closing
events, three Of them being renewals
Of races for aged horses. which have
brought out the best material in their
respective years.
The spectators next week win see tho
eleventh contest for the Ohio Puree for
9 :0S trotters and the Edwards Purse
| for 2 .0S PAGERS as well as the tenth re-
newal Of the Tavern STEAK" The lat
ter was established as an amateur event
in 1910, when there were 80 many NOM
| nations Il was raced in two divisions.
| Frank Jones won both OF them with
| Henry II. and Joan. He also won the
race In 1911 with Argot Hal. while J.
Coakley placed 1t to the credit Of Bar
| ton Pardee with Esther w. In 1912, and
| Parlee Mitchell won It for J. ]. Mooney
| the following year with Eulabel.
| In 1914 the association made the Tav-
ern "Steak' open to professionals ana
amateurs Snce| that date the former
showed In front In all of them. Dick
Mcmahon won Il in 1914 with King
| Clansman, while Geers followed the next
year with The Guide. Fred Edman de-
feated Busy's Lassie in 1916 with
Grand Chimes and placed the record OF
tho race at 206A. In 1917 the battle
was between Early Dreams and Royal
| Mack, Murphy winning with the latter.
He also made another bid last year
with Allan Watts but was defeated by
Prince Loree in 2:06ih.
81 Nominations for Tavern STEAK.
The popularity of the Tavern Steak
is shown by the fact that thirty-one
/ nominations were received In IL this
year. Some of them have fallen by the
wayside. while Truxton. one OF the first
horses named, Is now in Denmark. Cox
named him as wen as Mignola. who has
been on the sick list, his good four-year-
old McGregor the Great. and Brother
David. Murphy also has four to pick
from his group being Lotto Watts.
Mariondale. Constantine the Great and
, Peter Vaughn.
Lockspur Is the first nomination IN
, the event to win this year. He showed
, In front at the Cranwood meeting where
. hi trotted the half mile track in 2:10k.
While he Is apt to jump. as those who
, saw him at the Walnut Hall Cup at Lex
ington last year will remember Lock
spur is a very fast horse. as he showed
In the $1,000 purse at Syracuse, where
, he was second In the first heat to Prince
Lofee in 2:05A. Geers will also make
his first start with Heglar in this race,
in which Laurel Hall Farm will be rep
resented by Hilda Fletcher and w. q.
. Harlan by Native Hope, who made the
, stop watches click when he arrived at
! Lexington from the Macon training
camp. Bintara, Bon Watts and the
, Guy Axwotthy mare Miriam Guy, that
/ turned the Hartford track below 2:1o
= before she was shipped to Cleveland, are
1 also eligible.
i Three of the ten Ohio purses were
q ! won by Alonzo Mcdonald with Bob
Douglas. Lewis Forest and Star Winter.
q the latter placing Its record at 2:o5.
, | Murphy also won two of them with
|, Marigold and Peter Scott, while of the
n others Geers won with Dude Archdale
| Rodney with Baden. Cox with Mabel
a Trask, Traynor with Ridgemark. and
q Ross Stout last year with Blanche Car
u ter This year the Californian mare
IS Allie Lou Ia the first one on the list
q which also presents the names of Bacelli
Brescia, Del Jolla. Echo Direct. Holly
rood Kate. Red Bond, Mary Coburn, and
the choice from the Cox and Murphy
stables. Petrex. selah Baird and Lega
W. being among them.
The Edwards Purse has been since 4
It was established the first big pacins
d eTent of the year. Murphy won th'
first one with George Graney In 1910
when he kept him In front almost all th'
way down the line. He was followed
BY The Able and Vernon Mckinney
who placed the record of the race n
Il 2:03h, where II remained until las
year. when A Game of Chance lowered
tho colors of Peter Look in :03A. II
u the interval the first moneys have beer
le paid to the owners OF Joe Patchen III.
le Del Rey. Peter stevens, Russell Boy
= Ben Earl and Colonel Armstrong.
/, Twenty two nominations were received
N in the Edwards Purse this year, and {
N large field can be looked for when tn
ne horses turn for the word next Wednes
day.