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ing before learning the rudiments but finally decided 

 to put in a year under the eye of George Fuller. From 

 that day he began to climb, his first performers 

 of note being Alice West and Mattie Hunter. Later 

 on he came north from Tennessee with Brown Hal, 

 Hal Pointer, and Frank Buford, while he also raced 

 Star Pointer and Hal Dillard for their respective 

 owners. 



While Geers was located at the Village Farm he 

 found an assistant in Ben White. When the Hamlin 

 establishment was disposed of, White remained at 

 East Aurora with the people who purchased a por- 

 tion of the property. He started racing over the half- 

 mile tracks with Lettie Lee and a few others. Later 

 he moved over to the larger ovals where he marked 

 Lee Axworthy, Volga, Princess Etawah, Lee Wor- 

 thy, Mr. McElwyn, Aileen Guy, Main McElwyn and 

 a number of other stars. 



When Horace Brown was at the Village Farm he 

 also had two assistants who soon made a place for 

 themselves in turf history. They were W. J. Andrews 

 and Alonzo McDonald. Andrews was prostrated by a 

 sunstroke when at the top of his profession. Mc- 

 Donald is still active. He started in at the bottom 

 in northern New York. After driving a few races he 

 went to the Village Farm. In 1892 he gave Princess 

 Royal a two-year-old record of 2:20 at Poughkeepsie 

 for that establishment. He then started out to pad- 

 dle his own canoe. The pacer Miss Jennings brought 

 him back to the mile tracks in 1896 and he remained. 



As the years rolled by McDonald gathered to- 



