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races. Of the others Anna Bradford's Boy won three 

 events, Caretaker two, and Guy Ozark two, one of 

 them being the Transylvania. This ran Dickerson's 

 score up to fifteen. 



Of the other drivers T. Ackerman won twelve 

 races, eight of them being scored by Betterwin and 

 in one of which he placed the world's race record for 

 three-year-old pacers at 2:011/2. He also won with 

 Wedgemere, Trudy Guy, Julia Napoleon and Peter 

 McKinney. Herman Tyson won twelve races and 

 Charley Valentine eleven, five of which were landed 

 by High Noon. Will Crozier scored in nine events, 

 five of them going to Tronia Britton. Nat Ray won 

 eight races, one of them being the renewal of the 

 M. & M. at Detroit with Rose Morgan. The three- 

 year-old pacer Sampson Hal was the best one in Ed 

 McGrath's stable. He won three events, including 

 the Fox Stake, and made a record of 2:05 at Syra- 

 cuse. McGrath's other winners were Equitable Peter, 

 Tennessee Maid and Dayletter. 



FADING MILE TRACKS 



It is beginning to look as if the days of the mile 

 tracks for light harness racing were numbered ex- 

 cept in a few centers. The increase in the value of 

 land near large cities stands as a barrier to say 

 nothing of the overhead after the gro.unds are com- 

 pleted. 



On the half-mile tracks the spectators get more 



