Show GEERS FIRST TO USE BIG SULKY I Detroit July Geers the most famous driver In the tho world In the stretch o of the thc track whore lie he raced his string for four days and watched and sul sulkIes sulkies kIes b by the dozen go past him What n a change thos sulkies hare mallo In racing and In time lie he OUt ob Do you ou know I 1 wn was the l first n t nina man to 10 drive a race In one ODe o of thorn thom auth anel It had n a whole lot hot to do with my winning too I 1 occurred on the old track In the early nine nineties ties after aCter that race the tho sulky manufacturers were n nI t long In g get getting t ting busy Ill assure you yourt rt ft was as about a mile walk from where I lIved lIed to the near Buffalo and I figured out that a bicycle would be tho th right thing I looked looke owr the solid crush Ion and pneumatic tires an and decided on the compromise so 1 bought a hi hiI cycle with cushion tires I had ridden I It for some somo time when a friend asked me why 1 not bought hought one ODe with pneumatic tires lr s and suggested that 1 tr try his 1118 I dId and nd I thought that tha bl bi bicycle cycle was going to run awn away with me SO you ou can bet I had mated tires before night I began to work worl on a sullY sulky with that kind of tires and was having a pair o of wheels made that were about half haIC Wl way between the and those we now use The man waS slow on tile the job and when then I came to Detroit rolt for the races he did not have haveIt Jt It done Some inventor came camo out to the track and left a sulk sulky fit fiL fitted ted with small wheels and pneumatic tires for Budd Doble Dobie to try tn 1 tl ti put at the end of his stalls and out of the thc way war and I discovered It there I told him I was working a horse and asked if lie he cared if I used it and he said lie he would he glad So I hooked the horse Ui to It and he went the third heat about three seconds faster than limn the one before Again I tried the old sulky and he fell CeIl hack to about 2221 and for th flue filth fifth heat I 1 used the pneumatic matic and he did It In a That horse was wa Excellence t I had an unfinished race to SO go with Honest George Gcorge and with Dobles per ler permission mission I drove droe It In the new sulk sulky and won von clint settled it with me mC and with else around there then The bicycle sulky was made that day dar |