South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-11
KALAMAZOO GRAND
CIRCUIT JULY 1918
Crouch Horses Are First at
Famous Recreation Park
Race Track.

KALAMAZOO. Mich. July IL
The bell rings at Recreation park.
Tuesday. July 10, and Kalamazoo's
12tn annual Grand circuit meeting
will be on in full blast The ad
vance guard has arrived. the first
Of the big line stables to come be-
ing w. w Marvin with the Crouch
horses and others from Indiana. He
has ten in his string. including the
great PAGER William. 1889. which
will be shown daily at the meeting
and will also go "A fast mile.
Entries are almost in for the six
late closing purses that will COM
plete the five days card, and the
records show that the 10 events
have drawn over 500 horses I'm all
and that splendid fields will COM
pete in each race.
Old Time Crowds.
The general revival in sport Is
affecting the local meeting and old
time crowds are looked for
a free-for-all pace. two $4,000
purse events for trotters, and two
$4,000 purses for PAGERS. will fea-
ture Michigan's only Grand circuit
meeting of the year There will al
so be sweepstakes for three-year-
old tiotters and -year-old trot-
tiers.
The big purse races are the his
toric Paper Mills event OF $4,000 for
2.O6 trotters; the Columbia hotel
purse of $4,000 for 2:1S tro:ters,
the New Burdick MOTEL purse of So
4On for 2:06 PAGERS, and the Rick
man hotel event for 2:13 PAGERS
with the purse of $4,000.
Single c.. with record OF 1:59Ik
and Napoleon Direct, holding
mark Of 1:59% are expected to meet
in the free-for-au pace. Other nom
nations for this event are Directum
l.. 2:01k: Peter Nash. 2:O11h: LII
iian T., 2:O234. and ORC Elmo, 2:03A
Gecrs Enters -Four.
Nominations for the Paper Mills
classic number is. and It is pre-
dicted that probably ten or u will
face the starter. The veteran Ed.
f.. CPop"D Geers. named four of
the best in his stables for this race
Starters in the Columbia hotel
trot will be chosen from an origin
al entry list Of Al. Tommy Murphy
ramed: Lotto Watts. Peter Vaughn
and two others for this event.
The New Burdick hotel pace at
I -
among, them Peter Look, Jay Mack
Captain Mack, South Bend Girl and
Box r.
Among the p originally entered
for the hickman hotel purse are
HOLLYWOOD Billy Tommy DeForest,
Captain Heir -at-Law and Ed. Geers'
Goldie Todd
The four major purse events are
to be decided on the three heat plan.
The best two in three heats will rule
in the free-for-all pace and the
sweepstake for three year-old trot-
ters. while the -year-old trotters
Will go two heats.
The complete program follows:
Tuesday, July 10.
2:05 pace. mile track heats. $1,000
2:l3 pace, the Hickman hotel
purse .................. 1000
2:15 pace. mile track. heats. 1000
PIP trot ... 1000
Wednesday. July 16.
2:11 trOt mile track, , heats 1000
The ark-American hotel
purse. free-for-all pace sweepstake
2:O6 trot. the Paper Mills
purse ............... $4,000
3year-old trot the Celery City
Sweepstake
Thursday, July II.
/ 2:9S trot. mile track. 3 heats 1000
2:13 trot. the Columbia hotel
/ purse ......... 5000
2year-old trot. the Recreation
park sweepstake
PA pace ....... 1000
Friday. july Is.
/ PIG tret, mile track. heats. 1000
zoe pace, the Burdick hotel
/ purse ............. 1000
2.1O pace, mile track, 3 heats 1000
2:20 trot Observation-Disclosures. 1000
saturday, July 10.
zee pace ............... 1000
\ 2:I0 pace Observation-Disclosures. 1000
2:15 trot ............. 1000
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