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Show POP (SEERS MAY SET HECORD KALAMAZOO, Mich. March 24. i Edward P. (Pop) Geers, the grand old man of the harness turf, will try to set a record for longevity In active participation for all tlme( and, unless 'all signs fall, he will succeed. T?eently Geers celebrated his sixty-! sixty-! sixth birthday, and next May he will have rounded out forty-five years as ' an active driver. It is his ambition to go five years ' more, thus eompleting half a century 'on the track. It was feared when the veteran met with an accident last season and was badly smashed up that his racing days were over, but he made a surprising recovery for a man of his years, and now is in fine health IIo is not only training hard evei dm that weather permits, but is rounding out his day of work with I a horseback ride. Geer's sixty-sixth birthday was per haps a more interesting one to him than any which preceded It, for the t reason that he also celebrated the firs! event in which he ever drove a j horse in harness a mile In faster than I two minues In the Columbus August meeting he sent Napoleon Direct over i the distance in 1:59 3-4. Up to 1916 his best trotting and pacing miles , were 2:01 by The Harvester and 2 00- ! 3-4 behind Ess H. Kay. |