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STAKE RACE TO TEA CADDY ♦ Wins the Harford Handicap in an Extremely Close Finish. ♦ Havre de Grace Spring Meeting Opens .Under Favorable Conditions — Whitney Wins Race. ♦ Havre de Grace. Md.. April 16. — With a capital attendance, pleasant weather, a fast track and good horses in competition, the Havre de Grace spring meeting opened prosperously this afternoon. Translocation to the track by special trains was missed, but. on the whole, the regular train service did well iu taking people to and from the track. The sixth running of the Harford Handicap was the racing feature of tlie day and in which seven of the eight starters had no more than two lengths separating the winner from the seventh horse. Jack Hare Jr. was the favorite, with High Cost second choice, but the two crack three-year-olds had nothing to do with the result. Tea Caddy winning by a nose from the long priced Philippic, with Hauberk a half length farther back. The latter was only a neck better than the added starter Koh-i-Xoor. with Jack Hare Jr. and High Cost at the flank of the latter. It was in all respects a remarkable termination of a bitterly contested race. King Worth proved himself in good form when he justified his choice as favorite for the first race when he won by a head from Murphy, with Searpia II. a hangup third. Tlie H. P. Whitney stable recorded its first success of the year when its shapely two-year-old Bin-Laddie easily defeated Esquimau, Colinella and six more youngsters in the second race. It was a fast run race and the winner is probably above the average. Colins half-sister. Colinella. made a fast fiu-isli and almost got up for second place. Master McGrath, at healthy odds, defeated fifteen other selling platers in the third race and Hondo sprung a surprise when he won every yard of the way in the fourth and outstayed the odds-on favorite, Indian Chant. Dr. Johnson outfinished Compadre in the sixth and lit, regaining his speed suddenly, nipped Dolina by a nose in the seventh. Jockey W. Humphries is here with II. B. Dalley. fully recovered from the injuries Ik- sustained as a result of a fall while riding at Oriental Park. Culm, during the winter meeting at that place. Humphries will have his first mount tomorrow since his accident. He will ride the mare Highland Lassie iu the seventh race. Dalley purchased the interest that W. A. Carter held in the contract on Humphries and now owns the contract on the lad. KEDERIS TO RIDE FOR KENTUCKY STABLE. Jockey J. Kederis is here and will ride for tlie Kentucky Stable. A young brother to jockeys Arthur and Willie Collins is also with the Kentucky Stable and is said to be a lad of much promise. He will probably ride at some of the metropolitan meetings. A. K. Macomher has made au arrangement for the services of jockey A. Johnson during the Kentucky racing season. Word has la-en received by the family of Mortimer Murphy of his safe arrival in France. Young Murphy is now top sergeant in his company and is iu charge of a number of horses. "Ptiddin" McDaniel has received word from lin uncle. William, that he will ship the division of the Kilmer stable that he is handling from Bingham ton to the Jamaica track some day during this week. The report printed that C. M. Garrison, owner of the Calumet Stable, had purchased several horses. including Ed Cudihee. from G. II. Browne is news to trainer William Jennings. As a matter of fact Ed Cudihee is the property of a Montreal turfman named Dometree and K. E. Watkins has the horse in charge at the Pimlico track. Ed Cudihee was wintered at Dr. McCarthys farm iu the Green Spring Valley. Word was received here today of the sudden death in Philadelphia last night of Davey Johnson, who was well known about the Xew York tracks during the days of the old-time slates as block man for Ike Thompson. Mr. Johnson was bom in Hartford. Conn., but during the past few years made his home in Philadelphia. He was well liked and had a host of friends. The H. P. Whitney horses. Out the Way. Johren. Sungold. Tumbler and Bellringer. were brought here from the Whitney farm at Red Bank. X. J., in motor vans. These horses were sent to join the division here in charge of Albert Simons. Emil Herz intends to point High Cost for the Preakness and whatever racing the colt may do at Havre de Grace, will be in the nature of a preparation for the big Pimlico three-year-old feature.
