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Most sports have one or more Grand Old Men. Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer. Grandest old man of trotting, until he died eight years ago, was Edward Franklin ("Pop'') Geers of Lebanon, Tenn., who won nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest...
...every other important trotting race in the world, most of them several times. He was born near Cleveland, where his father owned part of the Forest City Stock Farm. Three races he won at the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 16, caused the Grand Duke Nicholas to invite him to Russia. For eleven years Will Caton drove Tsar Nicholas' trotters, won the Moscow Derby eight times and the Grand Prix at Paris in 1902. He set a record by driving one of the Tsar's horses, Trostee, over a mile...
...singles against his Davis Cup teammate Wilmer Allison; 6-8, 13-11, 8-6, 6-2 in the doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other shooters who had tied with...
...Life Goes On, by Vicki Baum (Grand Hotel) & John Golden...
...PRINCESS IN EXILE ? Grand Duchess Marie ? Viking ($3.50). More royal vicissitudes of a princess who became a bestseller...