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KING ELLSWORTH WINS OAKLAWN FEATURE. Lowers Track Record For One and One-Sixteenth Miles Luretta Takes the Sprint Handicap. Hot Springs, Ark., March 17. The weather was severely cold, but a splendid program attracted a good attendance to Oaklawn today. The sport was keen and the winners had to be extended to their utmost to gain the verdict. Favorites were lieaten la five races. Radtkes followers also booked a heavy loss by his failure, for the first time during the meeting, to pilot a winner during the afternoon. The third race, in which the best sprinters at the hack met, was a hard fought contest from post lo wire. Luretta. ridden by Hildcbrand, landed the purse in the final stride from Pontotoc, ridden by Itadtke. Pontotoc might have won, but for humping into the fence in the last twenty yards, hi tills race Henry Watterson and Hyperion II, made their three-year-old debuts, but they were far from fit for a bruising race. . . , King Ellsworth ran to his best form in the feature race and clipped a fraction from the track record for a mile and a sixteenth, placing the new mark at l:tCJ. His connections won handsomely by his- victory. , At ah auction sale in the paddock, conducted by "Mickey" Shannon, before the racing began, the following horses from the stable of J O. and G. II. Kcene were sold: Maxim Gorky, to A . M. Jackson for ,000; San Ardo. to T. J McIIale for 1906.sh50; Benevolo, to W. M. Jackson- for , and Klngs-wahlen. to W. M. Walker for 00-
