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About or before January 25 1897 1897The The American Sporting flanual YEARBOOK AND COMPENDIUM OF RECORDS The Manual will be A Book for the Pocket PocketA A Book of Authority A Comely Book A Cheap Book BookIt It will contain all general sporting records in use All American Turf Records All American Track Records A twentypage history of all the prize fights and boxing matches of 1896 from January i to December 31 1896 Two handicap tables one reproduced from the American Racing Manual and a new one of even sharper application to racing never before published will contain the 1896 figures of Baseball Aquatics Football and sporting Within The ritmuaJa covers will be 100 pages of pure sporting figures figuresThe The American Manuals handicap tables alone are such as have been usually sold at 50 and 100 each With them are published explanatory keys and three races which have been run and to which the figures have been applied These keys show horses estimate of ability on past races figures on the race to be run and their position in race to which figures were fitted fittedTable Table No 2 is entirely new The track records and time estimate in the book are the result of nine months daily work of five experienced men POPULAR PRICES FOR THE flANUAL In Paper Covers 30 Cents In Leather Covers 50 Cents Tables of American Race Track Speed The leather book is bound in soft covers and built to last ten years It has wide margins and a break back backEDITED EDITED BY F H BRUNELL BRUNELLMly Mly Racing Form Pub Co 126 5th Ave Chicago III
