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Show GEERS HAS FINISHED I n mm I Veteran Reinsman Retires for Winter After Winning $53,- " 000 on Grand Circuit. MEMPHIS, Tcnn.. Kov. 29. Ed Geers, ' the grand old man of the Grand Circuit. 1 jH has settled here for the winter and will occupy tho samo training quarters that ' bo haa used during the oft season for several year. Gccrs will winter tho ma- Jorlty of tho horses with which he won d on tho Grand Circuit, and already several siakii prospects have been shipped to him i. for preparation and "sampling." During the season ended last month , Geers ranked third among tho money winners, talcing- $53,143 out of tho big ring nurses nnd makes, lie is topped ; only by ilurphy, with J71.04C. and Cox, r with $60,373. It was thought tliat at l the opening last July at North Randall . Geers was certain to give the man to , flnlHh llrst a hard run, but within a short , l tlmo not a few of his stables were ready , for tho hospital and did not recover un- ' til tho fag end or the season. Dtspltc B tills handicap, which came ia the form of catarrhal fever, Geers not only fin- ished well up, but In every respect up-held up-held tho record that has characterized his performances on the big wheol for '. tho past score of years, Well Within Money. H "Pop" was also third, being led by the tU same two, in placing during 1913. Of his times out the veteran failed to place in l the money in only thirty-ftvo races. Ho t) drovo a winner eighteen times, finished m second on ten occasions, third twelve. 0 and received his entrance money for x !) fourth position, seven times, having ac- )( cepted a mount in all on eighty-three $HH occasions. This, of course, does not in.- ,HH elude the times that Geers drove out- '. side of the circuit, as during September ': he took Etawah, the great 3-year-old, ' outside -and captured several events. ,- Geors was at tho head of tho list in returning tho year's largest Individual A money winner. While not being tho ' largest of the Grand Circuit, Etawah V goes Into winter quarters tho winner of $24,(363. The little blind trottor estab-llshes estab-llshes a new world's record for a 3-vcar- old by this amount taken, topping the record of $22,800, made by BcnzzetU In 1S91. He was campaigned by Geers In i six races and took four of them handily. The little bay w out of the money only ' H once, that In tho Western Horseman ', stake at Indianapolis, where he showed such a Inck of form that he was drawn. J Horse fanciers will remember his pur- chase at Cleveland at the opening of th season. , , Wins Big Stake. , H Geors's most prominent performance or 1 the year was his capturing of the Mor- , chants' and Manufacturers $10,000 stake at tho Bluo Ribbon meeting In Detroit, i, when he, after losing two heats to An- j drews, behind Tenara, camo back.' with ' Rcuscns, the Kentucky gelding, and placed his sixth victory of this event ' to his credit. . Geers seemed to get away poorly at the , opening and It was not until the meet- lng at Kalamazoo that he forged to the 1 front with anything that marked preccd- "!i lng years of racing. Here he became the ,'J cynosure of all eyes In tho turf world j.f JM when ho took tho main event of the i Horseman futurity with Etawah. ,v During his career on tho big wheel I Geers has novor onco been under bus- plcion and It Is a frequent thing tliat t he is placed behind soirte horse from an- . vM other stable. Such a thing happened the v. IH day of his victory with Reuscns In tho Michigan city, when he was ordered by J tlie Judge to drive a horse in another , i event that had n6t made the most lm- j pressivc showing In two heat a. The & horse did nothing hotter than fourth, but ! tho officials wure satisfied. i |