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Show place, Peter Pan winning the heat. May Day won the next two heaU from Peter Pan In slower time, the third heat affording one of the moet exciting finishes of the afternoon. Aloyfras and Walter Halo each took a heat in tho 2:07 pace, which was not finished. Summary; 2:20 trot, 3 in 5, purse $1.000 Joan won; Sable Maid, second; Robert A lidrd. Best time 2:10 1-2. 2:21 trot, 3 in 5, purse $10,000 Merchants' and Manufacturers' stakes Dudle Archdale won; Arlo Leyburt), secon; Henry H third. Best time 2:08 1-4. 2:12 pace. 3 In 5, purse $1.000 Mayday won; Peter Pan, second; Oer-man Oer-man Boy, third. Best time 2.05 1-2. 2:07 pace, 2 In 3, purse $1,000 (unfinished) (un-finished) Aloyfras, 1-4; Walter Hoi, 2-1; Ella Ambulator, 3-2. Six others "arted. Best time 2:04 1-4. UTILE hue mas SIOJOOMKES DETROIT. Aug. 3. The Merchants' ond Manuiacturors' $10,000 stake was won easily In straight heats at the fair grounds by the little black mai , Dudle Archdale, with tho veteran Geers In th sulky. The race was too onesided to be exciting and tht odds of 3 to 1 on Dudie Archdale minimized min-imized Interest In tho betting. To day's feature was the third $10,000 lt?ature that the black trotter baa won In as many weeks, the other two having been the Furniture Manjfac-turers' Manjfac-turers' stake at Grand Rapids and tho Paper Mills $10,000 event at Kalamazoo. Kalama-zoo. This week's meeting is the second blue ribbon Detroit meeting at which Driver Geers won both the Merchants an Manufacturers' and the Chamber of Commerce stake, two of the big-test big-test annual events of the trotting i turf. The 2:20 trot vent to Joan, after Sable Maid had captured tho first heat May Day took the first he?t of the 2:12 pace in 2:05 1-2. In the 6econn heat she led Into the stretch, but broke badly and fell back to ninth |