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THE 1898 SPOUTING MANUAL MANUALThe Manual The 1898 edition of the American Sporting Manual issued by Daily Racing Form Publish ¬ ing King Co will be out by or before January 10 1898 The book will be double the size in pages of the 1897 book Its records will be more com ¬ plete pete than those ever printed in a book of the kind Its turf data will include the records of every race track in America up to January 1 1898 The general racing record table in the book will be found more than usually compre compare ¬ hensive pensive and can be relied upon for accuracy accuracyIn accuracy In addition to the turf figures those of pugi pug ¬ lism ism trotting pacing baseball athletics scull ¬ ing King football billiards cycling and general sporting events will be found within The Amer Amber ¬ ican Rican Sporting Manuals pages pagesEach Pages Each set of statistics has been overlooked and discussed by experts The racing figures are those of DAILY RACING FOHM OHM carefully revised by its editors George Siler Silver cares for pugilism Tom Gallagher handles the billiard matter of the book Ed Sheridan sporting edi edit ¬ tor tore of the Chicago Tribune has edited the base ball records and Louis Sass sporting editor of the Chicago Record the football and athletic records The harness racing figures come from the keen hand of John Hervey Harvey the statistician of The Horse Review The pugilistic data includes a list of all the fights of 1897 worthy of record That about baseball spreads the official averages of the National and Western leagues Three harfdi hard cap tables are printed in the book with articles on their application and the result thereof by the editor of DAILY RACING FOBJI FBI The book will be some 200 pages strong and within rein ¬ forced paper covers and sell for twentyfive twenty cents Mail orders to this office will be promptly filled after January 10
