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Seven Sprinters to Seek Detroit Allowance Test Annies Reply, Play Hands and Fort Vancouver to Go Postward FAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 26. A dash of six furlongs under allowance uuiiuiwons and titled the Eddie Tap-lin Purse brings together seven good speedsters in the best race at Detroit Fair Grounds tomorrow. All of the contestants have shown creditable races over the track and several of them have winning races to attest present fitness. U. R. Smiths Annies Reply has been second in her three local appearances and her consistency might be sufficient to earn her the place of public choice. The daughter of Questionnaire is a hard-hitting mare and should be tough to beat for top honors. I Mrs. J. L. Chesney will be represented by Play Hands and this daughter of Chance Play is another that has been right at hand in her three local appearances. B. H. Wises Fort Vancouver has a victory over the track to recommend him and a peak performance will have him forcing the field to the limit to defeat him. Others in the Taplin include Donna Ray Stables Bolo Tie, a recent winner and top-weight under 120 pounds. Under the conditions of the race, Mrs. Ray Grundys Ben Gray, S. I. Crews Putitthere and Mrs. J. W. Parrishs Passageway are next in line in the matter of weights, all carrying 118 pounds. Each of these has won at the meeting. Novice riders will be seen in action in the first race, and the sixth and eighth races are divisions of the same condition but at six furlongs and one mile and a sixteenth respectively. Entrants here carry claiming tags in a range from ,500 to ,500.
