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BIG COUP WITH PROPOSER. SAM "WAGNER IS SAID TO HAVE ENGINEERED THE KILLING. Bobbie Kean and Lotus Eater Run a Dead Heat L. Williams Rides Four Winners Only Two Horses Run for Nautilus Stakes. New York, July SI. The feature of todays racing at Brighton Beach was the saddle success of the colored jockey L. Williams. This boy hails from California and is attached to W. B. Jennings stable. Hi; had four mounts, riding Orphan Lad, Robin Hood, Proposer to undisputed victories and Bobbie Kean to a dead heat. Each of todays efforts were uphill hard fought ones, calling into play the most skilfull of horsemanship. On Proposer, in the closing race for maidens at a mile and a sixteenth, Williams brought home one of the best backed horses of the year. The unknown three-year-old by Salvator Prosaic, was the medium of a wluning in the local ring alone estimated at 00,000 and it Is said that fully as much more was taken out of poolrooms here and in the west. Sam Wagner engineered the killing. Proposer originally belonged to him, but he lost him at BufTalo through the claiming route. Rumor says that "Get-Rich-Quick" Ryan is the real owner and that he profited largely. The sport was of the most interesting description and the usual big throng of racegoers was present. Orphan Lads nose victory in the first was as thrilling as It was unexpected. A furlong out the Fatherless youngster did not appear to have a ghost of a chance to get up. The mile and, a sixteenth handicap furnished the rare spectacle of a dead heat between Bobbie Keau and Lotus EaTer. The purse "Was divided. The one stake feature, the Nautilus, a selling affair at a mile- and a sixteenth, only attracted two starters and degenerated Into the poorest race of the year. Red Friar, the least favored of the pair, won easily. Garnish ran poorly and was swathed in bandages all around. Dugan, the crack western jockey and star two-year-old rider, made a brilliant debut on Altuda in the two-year-old race, fifth on the card. The combination outbroke, outpaced and outstayed all opponents. Jockey Walter Miller will not be seen in the saddle again until next Monday, when the Saratoga meeting opens. He left for the Spa this morning with trainer Tom Welch and the Newcastle Stables string of- horses. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. has sold the steeplechaser Tom Cogan to James Blute. The price was not made public. G. Williams, the steeplechase jockey, who fell from Flying Virginian In yesterdays steeplechase, is in bad shape at the Emergency Hospital, Coney Island. He has been unconscious since his fall. Many members of the racing aristocracy have gone elsewhere the past ten days. There has been a great falling off the last two days particularly. Harry Payne Whitney, David Gideon, J. W. Gates, Jessie Lewisolm and the Ralney brothers are among the prominent clubhouse habitues that are at present conspicuous by their absence from Brighton. J. A. Drake, who returned to New York today from a two weeks sojourn in Montana, was at Brighton in the afternoon. He went west to look after some mining interests. He remarked that he was glad to get back and was getting ready for Saratoga, where his horses have been rested up and ought to cut a considerable figure in the forthcoming racing. "Im sorry Miller is going away," said starter Dade today. "He is the best boy at the post I have ever seen. He gives me no trouble at all, and is all business. His attention to his own affairs accounts for his getting away from the post so well. If all boys were like Miller, the work of the starter would be easy. For flat-footed starting he is superior to any rider I have ever seen." Mr. Earlocker, secretary of the Saratoga Racing Association, said today that ten stalls at Horse Haven have been assigned to Alex Shields for his racers. This disposes of the rumor at Brighton Beach yesterday that Mr. Shields had been refused stable room at the track.
