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Show PITTSBURG D EI L QUIT GRAND CIRCUIT ! Montreal Is Added to Fill N Gap, Opening Dates Are Announced & DETROIT Jan 12 P ttsburg and ? Fort Erie will not be active members of If i the grand circuit this j ear The stewards I of the harness racing organ zatlon in session here todaj prepared the 1915 racing schedu e and added Montreal to the c rcu t. is The Canadian city nas given two race T meetings of three days each to f 1 the j gap caused by the withdrawal of Fort Er e and Pittsburg The season wi 1 open at Cleveland the week of Ju y 19 and will close at Lexlng ton Ky the week of October 11 The change which brought Montreal Into the circuit was expected and the allotment T( of dates was about as predicted 1 The opening dates of the race meetings I follow July 19 C eveland July 6 De troit August 2 Kalamazoo August 9 G and Rapids August 16 (three days) Montreal August 23 (three days) Men treal August 30 Tonkers N Y Sep tember 6 Hartford Conn September 13 Syracuse September 20 Columbus Sep i tember 27 Columbus October 4 Lexlng f ton October 11 Lexington The law governing harness horse meet Ings at Montreal a low s only three days' i racing In a week The Btewards made several changes In the rules governing the grand circu t but failed to adopt the four heat racing bvs tern recommended by the ru es committee at its meeting in Cleve and last month Hereafter each individual association may adopt any system it des res After this year eligib llty to early ctos ' ng events will be determ ned accord g to a horse s race record whether wlnn ng , or los ng An Important changa n the rules pro f vides that two or mo e horses owned or controlled bv the same Interests or tra ned f - in the same stable cannot start in a racs except in dashes but in an event with not more than four s arters two horses so j owned may start the r ownership to be announced from the stand i The mandatorv n le o 3 per cent to en $? J ter in early closing events was rescinded I and It was left to each assoc ation to fix J its rate and division of payments prop j os tion to 1 nt the s ze of these e ents J! was voted down Associations which ha e not g en at I least two meetings as members of the 1 grand c cult hereafter viU be required to furnish a bond of $20 000 to guarantee , the carrying out of their progran mes i J and any associat on wh ch fa Is to give a J meeting will forfeit ts franch se Jj ! A 1 the o d officers of the c rcu t we e , re e ected The are President, B k j 4 Deverux Cle e and iee pres dent Fred v 1 Postal De roit ecretar and treasurer H J K2 ne C eveland J |