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Show oo CHICAGO TO ENTERTAIN Thousands of Trotting Horse Enthusiasts to Attend Convention Chicago. Feb 15. Chicago will entertain en-tertain several thousand trotting horse enthusiasts the coming week. Fanciers from Maine to California and from, northwestern Canada to Texas will be on hand to Join in the deliberations. The American Trotting association, which is the parent body of some 800 racing and fair associations in the middle west, convenes In extraordinary extraordi-nary session Tuesday to revise its much mooted rules with reference to racing. The principal questions to come up pertain to hopples and tho heats necessary to conclude a race and an equitable distribution of the purse money. Another event of importance will be. the annual meeting of the stewards of the Great Western circuit. These will meet upon Monday to determine upci the 191.1 itlnerar . Cleveland. Ohio, will no doubt open the Great Western this y, ;ir and will be followed by Pittsburg. From the latter point the Groat Western stables sta-bles will turn west, while the Grand Circuit entourage will ship to Buffalo, Buffa-lo, concluding this year's campaign in Kentucky. Those of the Great Western will continue until the late meetings at Dallas and Phoenix, Arizona. |