The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
HOULTON SUBSCRIBES
$4,000 TO GET ONE
Bound to Have a Horse That
Can Beat Caribou's Roy
Grattan.
WINNERS PAY DIVIDENDS
Everybody From Merchant to
Clerk Chips In to Uphold
Local Prestige.
WINNERS PAY DIVIDENDS

Prosperity born of potato culture is
making Aroostook county, Maine, IA
nous among horsemen everywhere as
center Of harness racing. Two meet
ings a year are held on the half mile
track at Pressure Isle. Caribou and
Houlton. and the rivalry among these
towns for possession of the fastest
PAGER has aroused a spirit akin TO that
of old time local pride in having a
pennant winning baseball nine.
The struggle for supremacy began
TO assume a community aspect when
the members of the Mooseleuk Club
made up a sporting syndicate and
bought the Tennessee PAGER John r.
Braden. 2:o2A, to uphold the honor of
Pressure Isle in the Maine and Mari
time circuit Promptly the Caribou
Driving Club responded by purchasing
The Problem. 2:04h, while a patriotic
citizen of Houlton quietly acquired
Calgary Earl. 2:02%. TO keep up the
prestige of his home town in the free.
for-all races.
Last seasons racing demonstrated the
upon the horsemen of Caribou and
Hcuton put on their snowshoes or their
gumshoes and started on still hunt
for something that could make him
take the dust. Col. Bidwell 2:031s,
champion Of the Bay State Circuit. was
added to the assets of the Caribou Driv-
ing Club at long price. but after three
rounds with the Pressure Isle PAGER it
was seen that he could not do the
trick. Game to the core the Caribou
horsemen once more Clipped In to make
UP fund big enough to buy Roy Graf
tan. 2:0lA. right out Of Thomas w.
Murphy's Grand Circuit racing stable
during the recent Philadelphia meeting.
Their reinforcements arrived just in
time for the August races at the Carl
bou track, and great was the rejoicing
when Roy Grattan gave John r. Braden
his first defeat this season. though not
until after the Pressure Isle champion
had lowered the track record to 2:07 In
winning the first heat.
Though beaten. the Pressure Isle po-
tato magnates are not disheartened.
Their driver. they say. was outeen-
eralec on this occasion BY Joe Johnson,
who had come on from Boston to drive
Colonel Bidwell. the stabemate of Roy
Grattan. A dozen times in the second
heat Johnson brought Bidwel TO the
wire at runaway speed In scor!nl., ard
Willard, the driver OF Braden In at
tempting TO keep up with him were his
horse out so that Roy Grattan was en-
abled to go on and win the next two
heats in 2:0S and 2:l0. Ten thousand
Caribou fans" formed an impromptu
parade, headed by a brass band, and
escorted the winning PAGER and his
driver, Cummings, to the stable.
No sooner had Houlton Sorsem-n dis
covered the presence OF Roy Grattan in
Aioostook county than Bud Tingley. DR..
L. p. Henderson and Albert z. Mooers
got the clan together and then took a
tain for Poughkeepsie. determined to
bring back horse that could beat both
Linn and Braden. They decided on Jack
son Grattan. winner of race in 2:c1L
over the slow track at Philadelphia the
week before, and when w. FL Cane OF
New York priced the stallion at si2,50O
they paid II without a murmur and
shipped him straight to Houton The
local meeting was close at hand, and
the potato harvest is said to have been
suspend ed all over Aroostook county to
await the battle for supremacy.
The process of financing the purchase
OF so many $4,000 PAGERS is both inter-
esting and up to date. a subscription
PAPER is circulated everywhere in town
snu everybody, from the merchant 70
The clerk. puts down his name for from
$40 up to a hundred or more. Whatever
Is needed is quickly raised in this way
II the horse is a winner everybody gets
{ dividend: II he loses nobody is badly
hurt. Meanwhile some of the topnotch
drivers of the Grand Circuit are be-
ginning TO wonder whether they viii
have to 70 TO Aroostook county next
winter. along with the buyers OF seed
potatoes, to strengthen their stables for
The summer canpaign