Show OLD POP GEERS AFT AFTER NEW RECORD r SPORTS SPORES GREATEST VETERAN OPENS 1924 RACE SEASON Daddy Of Turf Now Pilots Fastest Horse Of All Time me Peter Manning Booked to Shatter Many Marks During New Campaign By BILLY EVANS has Its Illustrious the Speakers the Iho Johnsons the he Cobbs I The ring game tad lad Its remarkable an Rn ancients cents the Fitz the he Brittona the t- t Many other sports ha hase e produced nota bios whose enduring qualIties keep stride with theIr heir blazing genius But the most astonishing veteran or of them the all all tho great great of oC o the he t 01 d Is Pop 73 ears of oC Age agay y i and anu 50 yeats In la tho the harness harness harness- Did ion ou au ever stop and think that Pop f was training and racing horses iu In Tennessee Tennessee Tennes see not so 80 long Ions after Genel al Lee signed f those hose Immortal papers paper at Appomattox courthouse court house and II a B couple of oC o lifetimes before many Bell e in spoils spotts today were ere born POP GEERS Astor A stor sor of oC Pop Geers life lIro on the hat hat- bar ness bar ness turf turC would be ba a story ot of the grand cir cir- cir clr circuit cult since the days ot of o the Grand Trotting Trolling association be- be beginning be beginning ginning in 1371 1871 What a world ot or speedsters his name has been associated with Belle Belie Hamlin Robert J Direct Hal Napoleon Direct Etawah Dudlo Dudie Archdale Billie Buck Duck and scores ot of o others Is It not fItting that the test fa hoise hOlso oi of o all sit time lime Peter Manning 1 56 56 should now be in his stable along with 1 one ot of the gamest pacers that eter eler looked through a bridle As a compliment to the association Pop agreed to ship to 10 0 this month and start alart his 1924 campaign at the little half bait mile mila track In the Ohio short ship circuit His schedule calls tor for a few tew grand cit cult engagements this season but he be will wll confine his efforts largely tp 10 exhibitions with Ith the two ta t a cham chani- champions champions It Is a combination ot of pleasure and profit and through them he has been able to eliminate much ot or the worry orr that Is coupled up with the conduct o of a big racing stable This should not be taken to me mein that Pop has lost an of o his cunning as a because he can rate one as will as over and kno knows 15 how to reef reet cm em mOO through the stretch Indeed it is whispered that the be venerable has made a small wager involving some choice Havana smokes that he will set a 1 anew new w 55 orld s 15 record this ear |