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Now For The Blue Ribbon Meeting

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Day
15
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Miobigan has already beeu affording the ligbt barness Bteppers opportunities for bread wiuuing thisseason, but these earlier contesta will be grsatly eolipsed when the famons (jrand Trottiug Circait opeDS at Detroit July 18 and continúes nutil July 23. Never before in the bistory of the fiolky has there been snob an array of speed as is now bottled up awaiting the tap of the bell at tbe magnifioent conrse so beantifully looatad near the banks of the River St. Claire. The first three days of Blue Ribbou week will be espeëially attraotive as the liberal reward of f30,000 awaits the sncessfnl in the nine events set down for that part of the program. Interest natarally oenters in the exoiting struggle for tbe Merohants and Mannfaotnrers' Stake for whioh a field of 16 fleet yonng trotters will compete. Thie is set down for Taesday in aooordance with the time honored oustotn establisbed sinoe 1889 vhnn the firRt raoe for tbis rich prize took plaoe. Most of the horses engaged for the tenth of these noted oontests have shown great form this seasou, an exainple being fnrniahed by Lurline Mcü-regor who took a record of 2 :1 1% last week. The pacers in the Chamber of Oommerce stake are even faster so that hears beluw 2 :1O aie snre to resalt from this raoe. Oue of the big seusations of the week is on Monday when seven of the fastest sidewheelers in the world meet in the 2 :04 paoe. There is Chehalis, the California wonder, that reoently won a great viotory át Denver, stepping one mile in 2 :05, an nnheard of feat for Jane. His neighbor, Anaconda, that forced hirn out there, will renew the oonfliot at Detroit, and besides the cracks from the Paoiflo Slope there are Frank Agan and Frank Bogash the redoubtable Indiana whirlwinds ; Bumps, who carried everytbing before bim last year and is faster than ever now ; Rnbensteln, the magnifloent Ohio oharnpion, one of the handsomest horses on the turf, and Giles Noyes, from Chicago, a hard nut to orack even in this seleot company. This great race has been arranged for the opening day so that those who take advantage of the one fare rate for the roand trip on all the railroiids and eteamboat lines running to Detroit may get full value for their money. After seeing this brilliant oommencement persons from a distance holding excursión tickets may remain until Wednesday and witness the exoiting oontestsfor the Merohants and Manufactnrers', Chamber of Commeroe and the other rioh stakes. Every over of clean sport in Miohigan shonld take a week's vacation and oelebrate tbe reoent triumph of Amerioan inanhood on land and sea, by witneasing the prowess of out peerless horses in the greatest of our National reoreations.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News