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Show MONTREAL IN GRAND I RACING CIRCUIT! Detroit, Tan. 12. Pittsburg and Fnri Erie will not ho active members of the grand circuit this year. The stewards of the harness racing organization, organ-ization, in session here today, pre pared the 1915 racing schedule nnd i added Montreal to the circuit The Canadian city wss given two I race meetings of three days each to I fill the pap caused by the withdrawal of Fort Erie and Pittsburg, The season will open at Cleveland ! the week of July 19 and w ill close st Lexington, Ky the wpek of Oeto- l ber 11 The opening dates of the j race meeting follow .Tui 19, Cleveland; Cleve-land; July 26, Detroit; August -.'"Kal- amazoo. .Mich: August 9 Grand Rap-Ids, Rap-Ids, Mich ; August 16 three days. Montreal, August 2"., three days. Montreal, Mon-treal, August 30. Yonkers, X. Y ; September 6. Hartford, Conn ; September Sep-tember 13. Syracuse; September 20, Columbus Ohio, September 27, Columbus, Co-lumbus, Ohio, October 4. Lexington; October 11. IexiDgton The law governing harness horse meetings at Montreal allows only three days' racing in a week The sti' wards made several changes chan-ges In the rules governing the grand circuit, but failed to adopt the four-hent four-hent racing system recommended by the rules committee at Its meeting in Cleveland last month. Hereafter each individual association may adopt anj system it desires A.1 the old officers of the circuit were re-elected. They are President. Presi-dent. H. EC Deve'rux. Cleveland; vice president Fred Postal. Detroit, sec- retary nnd treasurer, H. .1 Kline i Cleveland ! . EASTERN MEN LEAD CHECKER TOURNAMENT Chicago, Jan 12 George B. Tanner. Tan-ner. ChtcagO champion Newell W . Banks. Detroit and Willis Hill. Lawrence, Law-rence, Mass.. led the sixteen checker players who entered the title division divi-sion ol the biennial championship play today, each with 18 points to his credit cred-it J B Hanson of California gained a Victory and H draw with E. J. Bolton Bol-ton of Lawrence. Mass Hanson continued his successful play, winning one and drawing one With Bolton. Alfred .lordan of EBng land, the world's champion, in the fourth round won both sides of the second double corner from F. R Carlson Carl-son Chicago O'Grady of Rochester Roches-ter T. Y. won twice trom Patterson of St. Louis COAST VETERAN QUITS GAME Sacramento, Cai , Jan 12; .lames Whalen, a veteran Pacific Coast league player, died here today of Brlght's disease |
