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OVER AT HAVRE DE GRACE ♦ Successful Spring Meeting Ends with Yesterdays Program. • Jule Wins Chester Selling Stakes — Too Much Weight Beats Speedy Murphy. j • |HN ig Grace. Md.. April 30.— The spring meeting of the Harford Agri-.-ultiiral anil Breeders -- Mi.di.iii came l an end today with an mWHtkmt program of wvm rmw, of which 1 1t** Chester Selling Stakes was tlio- orincip.il at tract ion. Tin- weather was "clear ami springlike, while the track was never in better condition. An iranifnic attendance was present ami speculation in the mu-;iiK was Hie heaviest of the meeting. J. W. Williams furnished a surprise in the stake fecture when his good IV ter Quince filly Jule licat K. K. Carmans Startling. The hitters defeat. Ik. never, was no disgrace, as he was conceding big chunks of weight to the filly and ran a splendid i:t -e under his heavy impost, finishing in resolute rtxlc. Jule forced a fast early pace and. after li-po~ing of Compadrc. moved into the lead and gamely hung on to the end. Todays was the sixth running of the Chester Selling Stakes, the brief history of which is as follows: Ye-.r. Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1«.»13 Tarts 3 Mil. Snider..? 07.1 1:11% 1!0 1 fair Michael..3 97 W. Ilinphy. S7.1 1:1.1 HUKMMi .1 lid J. But well. OB 1:12% liiHi Squceler .1 11.1 T. Parton. 08 1:13.-. IM7 Startling 4 IIS J. Itutwell.. 1.34.1 1 :1J lllls Jule 3 Mi H. Bricksou 1.410 1:13 Itacki rs of favorites had a disastrous day. outsiders winning all hut two of the rices. The biggest npniit e«niic in tl.e losing race, w.icn Serenata. if ter leading practically all BC way. was beaten i now by Ben Ilauipsoii. Incidentally. lien Harap-■ n was the longest priced winner of the day, the SI" iiiutuels on him paying £.10.10 straight. The opening dash was easy for Aunt Dinah, a good -looking daughter of Incle, which is trained by Jule Carson. She easily raced Jorice into defeat and won with plenty to span1. The lightly-weiglited Ail.-le took the speedy Murphy into camp in the second race, the hitters weight telling in the final .line •eighteen horses faced the starter in the third race and Kl M.ilnli. the favorite, held his opi»onents safe throughout. The colors of W. M. Jeffords showed in front in the fourth, when West Meatli scored in impressive fashion over King John, which 1 was considered best in the race. The mare Caro Nome was ordered scratched by the stewards on account of a ruling issued against 1.. F. Wagner by tiie Kentucky State Haciug Commission, which barred the latter from the grounds ; of tiie tracks in that state. Mr. Wagner, whose ■ horses. Hilly Nestleli. use aui Caro Nome, an* lieing : MM by C. N. Darke, takes exception to the ruling of the Kentucky people, who base their action 1 on .iccoimt of a statement sent them by the Oak-lawn management. Mr. Wagner st.-tes that he was . lot In Hot Springs during the Oaklawn meeting and is at a loss to understand how lie can be in bad I standing. BLAZONRY MUCH SOUGHT AFTER. Three claims were lodged against Masonry after , he won yesterday by S. A. Clopton. Kinil Herz and Sam l»uis. The bitters claim was the highest and he retained flie colt for ..1.10. Charles I.jhimI.iI. was among the visitors. He j here to attend a meeting of the Cuba -American 1 Jockey Club anil will remain over for a few days • ln-forc returning t.. Kentucky. Orestes and Zuhil.ind. both of them candidates for the Preakness, were shipped over to liuilico tliis • morning. Gi-orge Starrs improvement is due in a measure to an o|MTiition iHiformeil on the colt last fall by Or. II. J. McCarthy, who went to New York after r the Hose of the Maryland season and treated the • colt for bad ankle-. Ilie rinkcrtuii men here have been on the alert I l-ect-ntly keeping tab on a couple of promoters of f ling venture-. who have been in Havre de Grace u ilmiug tie- meeting. One day last week a party named Karley. who is s.ij | to have been mixed up » in the Mary Mack affair, which was pulled off f successfully at the Gross Point track in Detroit 1 sonic few years back, was found strolling about in the iK-tting enclosure aud was picked up and put off Oie grounds. Willi"1 C. Madden, who has been employed about t the different race tracks in Canada and Maryland 1 during recent years as a Ixiard marker, died suddenly - in Havre de Grace last night. Madden was - born i" Brooklyn, but for the past few years has ■. made lii— home in Baltimore.
