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THE AMERICAN SPORTING MANUAL The American Sporting Mannal of 1809 is on general sale. It is a record of the turf, billiards, pugilism, trotting, pacing and all the leading lines of sport up to January 1, 1899, All the matter within its pages have been compiled and edited by experts, It prints a list of all the turf and traok records by Daily Racing Fokhs staff, billiard figures, paBt and present by John Thatcher, the fights of 1898, with comments by George Slier harness records to date and of the past by John Hervey, the statistician of The Hone Review and three handicap tables, with directions for their application and expert comment. The Manual, in paper covers, sells at 30 cents and in Bof t morocco covers at 50 cents.
