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BURKE FOUR TIMES WINNER . Rides Margery, Langden, Romeo and Sen. Broderick to Victory. Plummet an Easy Winner of the Two -Year-Old Race Favorites Successful. NEW ORLEANS, La.. March 11. The most interesting race at Jefferson Park this afternoon was the one at the longest distance, the mile and an eighth run as the fifth, in which Senator Broderick beat the favorite. Bombast, by a head in a driving finish. Senator Broderick rushed into a lead of ten lengths right after the start, but was tiring in the stretch, and it required Burkes best efforts to keep him in front long enough to secure tin? decision. Bombast was gaining with every stride, and had the distance been a trifle longer would have surely won. The real feature of the days sport was. however, the riding of jockey H. J. Burke, who rode four of the seven winners and finished second on another. Burke began his successes in the third race, when he landed Jim Arthurs mare Margery, an easy vinner over Rlsponde after the latter had shown the way to the last eighth. He followed this up with victories in the three following races. Langdens in the fourth being a walkaway, while Romeo made good in decisive fashion in the fifth, and Senator Brodericks head margin over Bombast came in the sixth. He also finished second on Ogden Girl in the opening race. Roscoe Troxler showed his old time ability in piloting two-year-olds by taking Plummet Into a big lend in the fir.st race and winning by six lengths. . , .- -- J. M, Cranes colt Approval caused some uneasiness to his many hackers when he got away slov.iy in the second race and was outrun for the first half. However, Quentin Preece kept him at it and the colt, gaining steadily, caught and dis-IMsed of the pacemaker in the stretch and held Margaret N. safe when the latter challenged right at the end. The other Preece boy aided materially in bringing homo Pluviada a winner in the closing race, in which. Water Willow, the favorite,, raced in closest pursuit and fighting gamely to the end. The oralizers had the worst of the days argument, the public selecting the winners of a majority of the races. Quite a few departures for Hot Springs took place today, but there are still plenty of horses here and there is little danger of a "shortage. on that score. The big exodus for the Spa will take place Sunday, immediately after the close of the present meeting. A. D. Stewart has turned over Notate to Charles Houbre to train.
