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Show NICKNAMES PREVAIL AMONG RACE DRIVERS Nicknames among baseball players arc more numerous than fictitious cognomens cogno-mens affixed to athletes In any other sport. There are thousands of sport lovers Who know Ten ton T- Young as Of. Chrlity Mathewson as Rlx Six. Nor- .T- man El be rf eld aa Kid and so on. but few of them could tell what the real namea of theae player are. In horae racing at one time nearly every driver on the grand circuit had his prefixed appendage and even today there are many horsemen horse-men who. when csild bv their correct names, have to think f'r an instant whether or not thev are belnc addressed. Charles Tanner ia mn su-rirrll v known as I tc thst he . s-arrelv rerigntss Char'ea when he hears It. fto it la with Edward F. Geers. The O O M Is !-vava !-vava called Pop bv hla friends. Home-men Home-men who ha vs f ol lowed I he re ces for rears would have to scratch their' beads If thev were asked what W. H. McCarthy's Mc-Carthy's name or initials are. aa tha veteran trainer baa been known aa Knap or Knapsack so iona that a" me have known him bv no other name. Ro it goes rlrht through th- llgi. Here are some of the more prominent nicknamed drtvera: Edward F. Geers pop Charles Tanner ..Doc A ion so McDonald Lon Gustua Macey Otis Walter Cox Long Shot T. W. Murphy Glen Cove Tommy1 John Dickerson Johnny Dick Wniard L. Snow Billy B. O. Shanks Mavor Paul O. Shank Pan W. J. Andreaa Breau Billy ! Richard F. Mc-Mahon Dlcit nick Wilson Dick1 A C. Pen nock Al John Splan lack Myron M. -Henry Tb Demon John Murphv Tne Wlsard John Turner v The General .1. A. Bowen Uncle Jk J. B Chandler Chan David Muckle I'ncie Dave Lis v id Cahlll Uncle Davev In addition to these there are several drtvera wh have peculiar namea. Among them are Float Jollv. Curt Gcarn-H, Cttl Maple, E. B. Pancake. Arile Front. Budd rMe |