Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-11

Trotters and PAGERS which have made
light harness history in the last two
seasons and many new aspirants for
championship honors in the Grand Cir
cult campaign of 1910 will be gathered
(, at the Belmont Driving Clubs track
at Narberth this week. The third an
nual circuit meeting to be held at
Belmont will open tomorrow with an
attractive card of four events, two
early stake races and two open events,
all well-filled classes with the best
light harness horses of the year.
For more than a month, Race Sec
retary AL Saunders and his assistants
have been working their hardest to get
the track into its best condition and
the course is in splendid shape for fast
stepping. The speed kings and queens
In the stables of Tommy Murphy, the
Poughkeepsie wizard; the veteran
Pop" Geers; Long Shot" Walter
Cox, and others, already have started
their record clipping, new marks hav-
ing been made at Cleveland last week
and proving that the horses are now at
their best.
Sixteen Glasses Listed
Sixteen classes are on the card at
Belmont, nine being early closing stake
events for purses ranging from $1,000
to $4,000, with the stars of the trot-
ting world entered. There are six
open classes with from eight to fif-
teen horses entered in each, while one
of the principal features Of the meet
ing will be u race for trotting teams
In which three Of the best known driv-
y ers of the trotting world will compete
against the crack local teams.
On the opening day, the Hotel Adel-
phia stake of $4,000 will have among
its starters Tommy Murphy's Direct
c. Burnett, 2.02A, a stake winner
ut every meeting SO far this year !;
Frank Dewey, 2.O2A, the star PAGER
of the Cox stable, which is also big
winner this year; Grace Direct, 2.03A
winner of nine races this year; Ed
ward P. the speedy side wheeler from
Brooklyn, and South Bend Girl, which
also has won several races this year.
This event will bring together the
fastest PAGERS now racing.
Eleven Entries
The other stake is the Directors
for locally owned horses driven by men
who never have won a race on the
Grand Circuit. This race has eleven
entries, and the majority can trot close
to 2.10. Two open classes complete
the days program, one for 2.0S trot-
tcrs, with some of the best seasoned
trotters to start, and the other 2.13
pace, which has twelve entries, some
of which have been very fast miles
already this season.
This year every effort has been made
to make the third meeting the best
of the three. More than 200 trotters
and PAGERS which are being campaigned
this year will be at the track and al
most 100 will start at the meet
ing.
The stakes and purses offered for the
four days of racing at Belmont ag-
gregate more than $35, 900, and, in ad-
dition to these rich prizes, handsome
silver cups will be awarded to the win
ners in each event. Such well known
patrons of light harness sport as E. 7.
Stotesbury. A. B. Coke, the three lead
ing hotels, Paul Connolly, John NJ.
Burroughs, NJ. NJ. Sullivan, A. b.
Mathews, Keim Supply Company, and
others, having donated valuable tro-
phies.
The horses shipped from various
points began arriving at Belmont track
yesterday, and a special horse train
will bring the others direct from North
Randall, Ohio.