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JOCKEY RADTKE SUSPENDED STEWARDS AT JAMAICA REFER HIS CASE TO THE JOCKEY CLUB. Gives Tommy Waddell a Bad Looking Ride Sulli-van Party Profits by Ryes Victory Walter Miller Now Holds the Record. New York, October 23. Jockey Herman Radtke is in trouble again. This time it is not due to his disobedience at the post, or Ills supposed inability to control bis temper or to that disregard for the in-utruetious of his employers which so frequently In the past has caused his absence lrom the saddle for short periods. The finger of suspicion is pointing his way and an investigation may result In the revocation of his license as a jockey. His handling of Tommy Waddell In the handicap for all ages, won by Garnish at Jamaica this afternoon, was so palpably bad that the stewards summoned him to the stand immediately after he had dismounted and weighed in and questioned him. Later they announced that they had suspended Radtke and that his case would be referred to the Jockey Club for further action. Some of Radtkes recent effprts in the. saddle have been severely criticised and J. R. Keene went so far an to release second call on his services for an unsatisfactory showing on Ballot in the Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park. P. J. Dwyer, Andrew Miller and W. S. Vosburgk were the stewards who suspended Radtke. The Sullivan clan won a chunk on Rye in the Gowanus Selling Stakes at six furlongs and Incidentally spoiled one of the biggest plunges of the season made by the E. It. .Thomas. and Sydney Paget confederacy on the lefeated-farorlte; Jacobite. Itye-f displayed surprising Improvement over his recent races nud there was much public dissatisfaction expressed over his reversal of form. George S. Davis, the notorious iu-and-outer, at short odds, got away badly and was ignouiiniouslv beaten in the opening two-year-old sprint handicap, won by Main Chance. Jockey Koerner just returned from the west, rode the winner. He also repeated during the afternoon on Garnish. Walter Miller, through his victories on Rye and Suffrage today, now holds the record for the niiui-ler of winners in any one year by an American Jockey. These two successes make his total of winners this year 298, one more than Eugene Hil-debrand rode in 1904. The weather was mild and pleasant at Jamaica today and ten thousand racegoers enjoyed a good days racing In which the public choices just about held their own.
