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SLIPPERY ELM THE WINNER Easily Captures the Oid Bay Han ¬ dicap at Havre de Grace George Starr Disappoints His HisAdmirers Admirers in Secondary Feature Featureof of the Afternoon Havre de Grace Md September 14 It A Smith saddled the winner of todays feature race at Havre de Grace when he sent the consistent racer Slippery Elm to the post in the Old Bay Handicap Tlie conditions of the event called for a nice of a mile and a sixteenth to which the club added a purse of 1500 Slippery Elm made all of his own pace and beat Aumm a couple of lengths lengthsThe The Helter Skelter Steeplechase Handicap fell to New Haven The old gelding was favorite and performed in grand style fencing cleanly and dis ¬ playing good speed on the flat Gold Bond was second and Shannon River third Kacebrook tired after a brief early display of speed and quit quitThe The Hip Hip Hooray Purse for all ages at three quarters of a mile held out tlie promise of being a contest well wortli seeing Jeorge Starr was th outstanding favorite and appeared to outclass his opponents Such was not the case however and third to Mary Maud and Prince of Como was the best he could do Mary Maud won leading all the way never seriously menaced ami drawing away at the end It was a close thing for second place Prince of Como outstaying the favorite in the final strides stridesYouneed Youneed easily accounted for the opening dash leading Ral Parrs Esquimau home with St Queu tin in third place placeSky Sky Pilots measure was taken by Tootsie in the third nice the Hessian filly having a five lengths lead over the favorite at the end Old Hauberk was at his best today with the re ¬ sult that he beat Celto although tiring badly in the final strides stridesAfter After leading by a wide gap from tlie start of the mile and a quarter dash run as the closing nice Blazonry suddenly tired and it required John ¬ sons l est efforts to keep the Oliver colt in front with Little Cottage gaining with every stride strideORLANDO ORLANDO OF HAVANA BAD POST ACTOR ACTOROrlando Orlando of Havana refused to leave the barrier when the start came in the fourth nice The horse has been left in several of his recent races and will not start even in the morning morningThe The William Garth stable at the Benning course was destroyed by fire last night There were about twenty five horses in the barn most of which were yearlings and fortunately they were all saved savedSeveral Several horses ou shipment from Timonium to Havre de Grace were injured as a result of an acci ¬ dent due to a flying switch in which the car jumped the track In the mixup two horses in the B L Cole string Garry Water and a twoyearold filly were thrown out of the car and suffered injuries enough to lay them up for the year Maxims Choice and Koadmaster which were in the same car were also injured injuredFred Fred Schelke has received an addition to his stable in tlie plater Yodeling which was xhipiictl to him from Capt P M Walkers farm in Vir ¬ ginia giniaWilliam William Garth has obtained a call on jockey Sneidniiin who will do his riding in races where the apprentice allowance has been claimed claimedC C J Fitz Gerald left last night for Darley New York to act as judge of the thoroughbreds shown at the fair there He will be back in the stewards stand on Monday MondayAnother Another recruit to Uncle Sams navy has l cen s ciired from among the valets at the track George Yellow Kirk who has been connected with the leading riders for the past few years leaves Tues ¬ day evening to report to the Brooklyn Navy Yard having volunteered for service
