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GOLD BADGES LA GRANGE. That popular owner. P. Dunne, was very much in evidence at Harlem yesterday, winning three races with Sortie, Scales and Gold Badge. The latter won the La Grange Stakes, which was worth 95 net to the first horse. Only five started in the stake event but they were all of about the same caliber and consequently it furnished a hot betting race, it being 3 to 1 and take your pick at post time. Starter Dwy»r got the field away on almost equal terms at the first attempt and on the turn there was a lot of crowding and interfering and in the jam Money Must was jumped on and quite badly cut down. Begea and Handy Man also met with interference and as Princess Tatyana was the interferer Gold Badge was the only one that had clear sailing He took the longest route thereby avoiding all interference and having the best of the going and in the stretch made hie four opponents look cheap, eventually winning with ease by about three lengths. John Baker was a heavily backed favorite in his race, but as it transpired, he was not good enough at the weights to beat Eva Bice, who is not only very speedy but probably is at her best just now. Buchanan rode her and, getting away well, he made every post a winning one. John Baker was always in a favorable position and at the end Knight brought him away in a desperate effort to catch the leader, but he could never quite get up. Hermoso, on his last clever performance, seemed like a legitimate 1 to 2 choice in the second race. But he had a hard contest from beginning to end. Hermoso is a front runner, and hi- inability to get away from John A. Morris in the early part of the race was against him. As a matter of fact both John A. Morris and Josephine B. outran him. In the stretch he came with a rattle and caught John A. Morris tiring. Josephine B., however, always showed the most speed and won by a narrow margin. The judges appeared to think that the defeat of Hermoso was due to jockey Hose and they suspended the boy indefinitely. Bose has ridden some good racer.- and some very poor ones. Possibly he was not energetic enough with Hermoso at the beginning of the race, but it seemed that the horse was doing about his best and as if he was simply outpaced. Sortie was much the best in the first race and he was smartly handled by Bloss, who since his reappearance in the saddle here has shown some clever work. Bloss got off none too well with Sortie and held a position on the rail, waiting for an opening. He found a chance to get througa in the stretch, and then it was all over, the colt winning easily. Flick might have handled Natural as to better advantage, and IuvictU6, the pacemaker into the stretch. stopped badly at the end. Scales, in the third, proved to he another easy winner for Mr. Dunne, beating a better cla-- of horses than he has heretofore competed against successfully. Buchanan rode a good race en him. timing his run carefully and winning without much effort after Greenock had made the pace into the stretch. The Lady, who finished third, scarcely ran up to her best form. It may be that the soft going was not to her liking. Macy. in at 102 pounds and ridden by Bergen, 1 | won the last race after an early drive with Pay j ; The Fiddler. Macy was entered to be sold for j I .CC0. He was hid up to SI 205 and bought in for the stable. It was reported that the bid-j ding was done by an agent of J. H. Smith, who was ruled off by The Washington Park steward* I for violating the rules governing selling races. James Murphy and William Mosely engaged one another at fisticuffs yesterday in the betting I ring at Harlem. Both of them are bookmakers and occupy adjoining booths. Murphy, it is said, was the aggressor, and struck Mosely during a heated argument. The row caused an incipient panic in the betting ring. After the races both of the belligerents were called before Judge Hamilton, who severely reprimanded both of them, and imposed upon each a fine of 5. The gross valuation of the La Grange stakes was ,220, and Dunnes share of it amounted to 95.
