Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — WHEN GEERS GOT HIS START [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHEN GEERS GOT HIS START

Drove His First Race in 1871 for a Tennessee Preacher—Last One In 1917. < Ed Geers drove his first race In ISTI for a Tennessee preacher and his last In 1917 for a New York woman, who owned St Frisco, the greatest racing

graduate of his school.’ St. Frisco died tbc at Memphis. Geers la -how sixty-seven years old. ,Each year he swings Into line with something new. ...

Ed Geers.