Edward Franklin "Pop" GEERS
1924 - Hinds Killed in Race After Tribute to Geers; He Is Thrown From His Sulky at Syracuse Fair

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 headlong over the wreckage. He fell on his head and right shoulder. Physicians believed that he probably fractured his skull in the fall.

Murphy of this city, the other driver, was dazed and shaken up, but
after a short rest was able to tell details of the crash. He had been leading, he explained, and the other horses were bunched behind, with Hinds nearest. Bonnie Del appeared to break, possibly. Murphy thought, because of touching the leading sulky.

Hinds was about 62-years old and a native of Goshen. N. Y. He had been
a racing driver for at least twenty-five years, according to State Fair officials, and was rated as one of the leading five men on the Circuit tracks.

The New York Times
New York, New York
September 9, 1924

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