Edward Franklin "Pop"  GEERS

Source: Obituary - Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, Virginia
Date: 4 September 1924; Pg 6:
'POP' GEERS IS PASSED BY GRIM REAPER
Famous Race Driver Dies From Injuries in Accident
Wheeling, W.Va., Sept 4 --
The body of Edward 'Pop' Geers, 73, veterean race driver, was shipped to his home in Memphis, Tenn.,
today. Burial will be in the family plot at Columbia, Tenn.

Geers died last night, from injuries sustained when his horse Miladi Guy, stumbled throwing the driver from his sulky at the West Virginia State fairgrounds. He did not regain conscousness and died three hours after the accident. Twenty thousand persons witnessed the accident.
Geers probably was the best known harness race driver in the world and in 50 years of harness racing is said to have made more than $2,000,000.



Source: New York Times
Date: 5 September 1924; Pg 12:
50,000 PAY TRIBUTE TO GEER'S MEMORY
Activities at West Virginia Fair Are Suspended Out Of Respect to Dead Driver
Wheeling, W.Va., Sept. 4

SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 8 — In full view of several thousand persons who but an hour before had bared their heads and paid silent tribute to Edward F. (Pop) Geers, the veteran driver who was killed last week on a Southern track. Tommy Hinds, himself a veteran of Grand Circuit racing, was thrown to his death in a collision between sulkies on the race track at the New York State Fair grounds here late today.

Hat in hand, with his head bowed, Hinds had been one of the Grand Circuit, drivers here for the opening day who stood in front of the grandstand to observe a moment of silence in memory of one who most of them had known as a close friend and companion. The brief tribute over, he had remained with the others to hear Lieut. Gov. George R. Lunn recall some of the outstanding events in Geers' career. Then, as Hinds swung around the one-eighth mile turn on the track, guiding Bonnie Del to a leading position, his sulky collided with Tommy Murphy's Clyde the Great and he was thrown