Most sports have one or more Grand Old Men. Harness racing has dozens who jounce their old bones in old bright -varnished sulkies on Grand Circuit trotting tracks every summer. Grandest old man of trotting, until he died eight years ago, was Edward Franklin ("Pop'') Geers of Lebanon, Tenn., who won nearly $2,000,000 in prizes. Two more grand old men of trotting distinguished themselves last week, one in Ohio and one in New York, at Goshen where the Grand Circuit reached its peak in the Hambletonian Stakes, one-mile race named for the greatest...
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