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George W. Glick, Trainer From Old School, Dies Raced at Tracks in United States, Canada, Mexico for Half Century HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif , May 18. — George W. Glick, one of the oldest trainers in the West, died in the Garden Grove Sanitorium, near Balboa, Saturday night after an illness of a little more than one year. He was 72, and was well known and highly respected in racing circles. Glick was born in Coffeyville, Kans .. but spent his boyhood in Colorado. He came to Southern California with his father, who at one time owned a large ranch on what is now Signal Hill, the fabulously rich oil district. The father sold the ranch when de decided it was unsuitable for farming, little dreaming that in later years it would be forested with oil derricks. As a young man, Glick got a taste of racing at old Emeryville, and when Matt Winn opened the old Juraez track about 45 years ago, Glick was there, in partnership with Clarence Buxton. The pair raced some years in Maryland and Kentucky, and when Chicago opened, they were there, too. Glick was a silent partner with Buxton the first year at old Tia Juana, when their Sasin won the first running of the Cof froth Handicap. Later, Glick owned and trained horses at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans; Montreal, Aurora, Chicago, Maryland and on the New York circuit. When Tanforan opened with options in 1930, Glick was on hand, training for Terry OMalley and others. And he trained at Santa Anita from the very beginning, on Christmas Day of 1934, to the time he was forced out by illness in February of last year. Glick was for some years a director of the California Thoroughbred Owners and Trainers Association, which later was merged into the HBP A. Glick leaves a childless widow, Grace. They had been married 23 years. Mrs. Glick resides at 1508 Balboa ave., Balboa Island. Also surviving is a brother, Chester Glick. Funeral services will be held at Honold Brother Mortuary, 10781 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden Grove, Calif., Tuesday, at 2 p.m., after whicn the body will be cremated and the ashes sent to Lodi, where his nearest relatives have resided for the last 30 years.
