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TO WEIGHT IS THE VICTOR REPUBLICAN WINS GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY HANDICAP AT CHARLESTON. Biggest Crowd of the Season Enjoys Holiday Racing at Palmetto Park Joe Deibold Accounts for Secondary Feature. Charleston, S. C. Fobniaty 23. .1. O. Talbotts Re-i!IUmii, conceding top weight to good opposition, won the ,000 George Washington Birthday Handicap, one mil" and an eighth, which featured the holiday card f six races ai Palmetto 1ark this afternoon. tie was aided ro his success by the good horsemanship displayed by C. Turner. C. M. .Miller, after a .cniious stretch driv got up to beat the badly i olden Ringling. the second choice of the race. Muring Ihe earlier stages of the race .Sleelh. Lnchicl and Counterpart were proinineiit factors, but they retired when the real racing began in the stretch. .! hit Furlong, another starter in the race, was i iimpeil on the stretch turn and seemingly refused to Mend himself fully thereafter. P.y far the largest crowd that has witnessed racing i re this season was at the course this afternoon and njoyed the sport, l.ei ting was brisk and the thirteen .a.ti-rs were kept at top speed in handling the business olTered. Favoriies won four of the purses, lee choices that failed were Cockspur ami Cnugh Hill. The secondary feature, a handicap at throe-quarters of a mile, was won by the well-backed Jo" Iicihold. lie finished a nose in advance of Sher-ood, mainly because of Gooses superiority to Mc-l ahey in tlio saddle. The Talbot t stable made it a double when the recently acquired Helen M. finished first in the closing dash half a length in ; dvanee of Jacob l.unn and Joe Stein. After the luiish. II. !. Bedwell. the fillys former owner, bid her up 00 over her entered price of 00, but she was retained with the customary advance of . l inalee won the opener, but it is a question if she would have scored had she not repeatedly interfered with Yellow Flower in the stretch racing. An intet ed coup with Gaty fallen failed in the s-oiid rao? when Surpassing beat him to the tinisu Vby a neck in a hard drive. Banjo Jim was easily lu st ju the lif Ih aitd"iinlshed a good margin in ad-ance of Knight of Uncas. Jockey J. Hanover was suspended for three davs by the stewards as a result of rough riding in the dosing dash. K. D. Williams, acting for .1. L. Holland, is in gotiating for the contract on jockey F. Murphys services held by Tom l!rown. M. A. Colton departed tonight for Chicago, where l.e will remain altout a week attending to private business. A carload of horses, including Emerald Gem, General Villa and others, arrived from Juarez this morning and were unloaded in good condition. A. W. Foulk, acting for S. .McCoy, of Kansas City, purchased the lilly I.inbrook from J. V. lled-rick ibis morning, the consideration being . She will lie raced with the remainder of the Foulk stable at Denver and Vancouver. Tom Harmon was among the arrivals from New rl; this morning. Abe Levy, who has been spending a few days here, dejutrted for Florida yesterday. I. A. Rrollier purchased from V. A. Kirwan Ibis morning the four-year-old Ilopsack, by Sain Miss Marion. It. F. Carman announced today that Surprising would not. be a starter in the Ialmetto Derby, to be run on Saturday next. Jockey Joe Ityrne left for Aiken this morning to join the stable of his employer. Thomas ITHchcock. A photograph of the subscription taken by General Francisco Villa to the 0,000 International Derby, to be run at the Dorval track in Canada next June, was received by starter James Milton today. It is ihe Intention of the Mexican general to purchase a horse to run in his colors in this stake. II. 17. Harbour! has added the three-year-old Laird " Kirkcaldy to his siring. He purchased the colt from .1. V. Messervy this morning. James Milton is considering an offer to do the .starting on s.-veral of the Canadian tracks during the coining season. The destl is not closed as yet. but is likely to be consummated within the next few days. Among the trials shown at Ialmetto 1ark this morning were: Alledo Half mile in 52. Deposit Half mile in 53. Double Five Five-eighths in 1:0.1. Klla tirane Half mile in 52. Elsewhere iralf mile iu 51. Fathom -Three-quarters in 1:17. Followinau Mile in 1 :4S. Frank Hudson Half mile in ,"073. Gallant Boy Three-quarters in .1:19. Henrietta V. Three-quarters in 1:112. Indolence Three-quarters in 1:20. Ivan Gardner Three-quarters in 1:22. Little Hp Seven-eighths iu 1:33. Monoeaey Three-quarters in 1:10. Old lieu Half mile in 51. Progressive Half mile iu 53. Ittclc Half mile in 52. Seiui-qnaver Three-quarters in 1:19. Sonny Hoy Three-quarters in 1:17. S.vlvestrls Three-quarters in 1:20. Tarts Three-quarters in 1:21.
