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W. PAGE LEADING AT DETROIT TOO 1 ! Crack Apprentice Loses Allowance — I Has Comfortable Lead, However, I Over His Rivals at Fair Grounds. DETROIT, Mich.. June 19.— Willie Page re , continues to show the way to all riders at t the local track in the contests for the gold 1j watches offered by the Square Deal Miller Br Jewelry Company, of Detroit, to the apprentice n_ and jockey scoring the most points at a. the local meeting. Page, who lost his five /e pounds apprentice allowance with Monday , s s racing, has amassed 155 points since the beginning of the meeting, and the points he e his apprenticeship will ill scored while serving I be counted in his drive against the older I ridei* for the prize. Page, in going into the full-fledged jockey "JL ! colony, will have a comfortable lead over I the older reinsmen, as Sammy Williams, who is the runner-up in that division, has only J* j ninety points to his credit. Clayton Perkins - moved past J. E. Oios during the week - when Oros was successful with only two of his mounts. In the other positions, M. j L. 1 Fallon is four points to the rear of Oros, while Jack Bryson follows Fallon. . j Hayden Dupuy, tiny Louisiana boy, is within seven points of Page and appears a - certainty to lead his division at the end of __ I this week. Dupuys four winners Saturday, the first time this feat has been done at the meeting, placed him far ahead of Patrick Milligan, who has 128 points. Willie lie Prehm is next in the standing with sixty-four y- points. Arnold Sorsen. who has ridden en seven winners, lost his score when he was as set down last week for rough riding.
