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BUTTE MILE RECORD REDUCED TO 1:38. Commercial Day Marked By Largest Attendance of Meeting and Record Breaking Number of Books. Butte, Mont., August 10. Today was Commercial kly at Butte and all the stores were closed, iu konsequence of which the largest throng of the mect-kz turned out. The special attraction of the aftor-n was a handicap at one mile, in which Endy-V m II., easilv the best racer here, reduced the "...Ack record to 1:38. four-firths of a second loss than the former record. He scored with great ease after a brush with Rig Stick in the stretch. Twenty-one liooks, a record for .Montana, made the prices this afternoon and had all they could do to handle the wagers or the eager speculators, who bad somewhat the worst of the days argument. I". Augustus Heinze was an interested spectator at the races today and expressed himself as astonished over the popularity of the sport here.
