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AMERICAN SPORTING MANUAL. • ? The American Sporting Manual of 1902 con-.* tains all the racing at large, revised and com-3 plete up to the end of 1902; five handicapping1 1 systems with directions for their practical ap-*| plication, a table showing how to compute bookmaking percentages, track records of all f the recognized tracks of the country, thejj western and eastern scale of weights, tableap showing the comparative speed of tracks, thef racing statistics of 1902, giving amounts wont by owners and horses and jockey record, al complete list of pugilistic contests of 1902 of:| any consequence, trotting and pacing records j at all distances and a list of the new 2:15 trot-* ters of 1902. Also a complete record of per-| formances at all styles of billiards. m
