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FOUR FAVORITES WIN AT HAMILTON TRACK. Sharpshooters Back Wabash Queen and Knobhampton Captain Hayes and Sam Parmer Fall. Hamilton, Ont., October 1. The sharpshooters got busy today. Wabash Queen in the fourth race, and Knobhampton in the sixth, backed from 30 to 20, were their two good things. The other five races were taken by four favorites and a second choice. Plantagenet and Father Catchem were heavily backed but failed to make good. Captain Hayes and Sam Parmer came to grief simultaneously when half the distance in the steeplechase had been traversed. The horses were subsequently mounted by stable hands and Captain Hayes would have got third money had he not run out in the stretch. Sara Parmer finished the course and got third. Starter Murray suspended Swain for the remainder of the meeting for breaking up starts In the fourth and Burton and Hogg were each fined 5 for disobedience at post in the second. Gold Run was bid up 05 over entered price by C. Phair and retained by the owner. Secretary Loudon had Washington, the colored steeplechase rider, arrested for creating a disturbance at the track during the morning. It took three husky constables to get Washington to the city lockup. His case will come up In the police court Friday. Fred Gerhardy leaves for Montreal Wednesday night to act as starter at the two days meeting of the Montreal Hunt Club.
