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CLEAN SWEEP FOR MILLER. HAS FIVE MOUNTS AT BRIGHTON BEACH AND ALL ABE WINNERS. His x Jubilant Followers Strip the Ring of Ready Money Salvidere Wins Brighton Junior Stakes Hylas Scores in Brighton Steeplechase. New York, July 28. For the followers of Waller Miller, ami they arc legend, tlfls was a great day at Brighton Beach. This jockey idol of today won eiicli of the five races in which he had mounts. Of course not all of the 30,000 persons who packed the course by the seaside on this faultless afternoon with its attractive card of seven races, embracing three slakes and carrying a total of 3,000 in added money, were hero worshipers, but there were enough of theiu to take away practically nil the ready money in circulation in the ring. His cohorts were intensely recklessly loyal throughout the afternoon and almost indescribable scenes of rejoicing followed each victory. The lightweight inaugurated the day with an unexpected victory on Gold Lady at profitable odds. In the race following he had no mount and the market was stagnant. With Miller on Content In the Seashore Handicap, his following ignored the other starters, no matter what their class or pretentious, and went to Woodford Clays filly. The result was hardly ever in doubt, even to the most superficial observers, Content winning with supreme ease and at lucrative odds. Miller, however, reached the climax of achievement with the victory of the outsider Salvidere in the rich Brighton Junior Stakes, incidentally defeating the formidable Keene trio Ballot, Peter Pan and Superman which -were held at prohibitive odds In the betting. It was conceded to be a race between juUlionaires, Messrs. Keene, Belmont and Hitchcock. It was a Waterloo for the followers of favorites. It is said that the loss of one clubhouse commission alone approximated 1906.sh0,000. There were several 0,000 wagers and many 0,000 ones. Despite the fact that two outsiders ran one, two, the layers broke no more than even. The unsophisticated and confiding small bettors were the beneficiaries. Again there was a lull. Such an affair as a steeplechase in which Miller did not figure had no interest for the proletariat, notwithstanding it was the Brighton Steeplechase with ,000 added. Nannie Hodge came next on the program and with Miller on her back, they could see nothing else in the race with the result that the Bossiugton mare was backed down to an absurdly short price, but she won and no kick was coming. On The Clown it was like taking candy from a baby. The little jockey went right about his business with this speedy, but fainthearted animal and jollied him into running the race of his career. There never was a day like this. The cashiers were worked to death paying off winning bets to Millers adherents and some of them had not finished settling on The Clown at C oclock in the evening. The steeplechase was the best of the present meeting and replete with incident and spectacle. To Rays nerve was due the victory of Hylas. For the first three-quarters of the closing mile it was one of the fiercest struggles ever witnessed in an affair of this kind.
