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EXTERMINATORS GAMENESS i Enables Him to Score Over Cudgel in Hard Fought Finish. i i Race Run in Fast Time Favorites Prove Elusive, Only-Two Winning. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., September 22. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Exterminator beat a number of good handicap horses in todays feature race, the Republic Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth. He was ridden by Schuttinger. and after being saved from the fast pace until well into the homestretch responded with courage and at the end lmat the fast closing Cudgel three parts of a length. The latter, after trailing his opponents for seven-eighths, closed with a rush and at the finish was going the fastest of all. Rapid Day. which defeated Be Frank in a sensational finish last Thursday, came back today and leading all the way in the Page Brook Purse won without being extended. Backers of favorites found little to enthuse over in the .results of the first three races, as Mock Orange failed them in the first. Encrinite winning easilv. while Sedgograss was beaten a head bv Punctual in the second, and their choices in the third were nowhere at the finish. Sedan won the third by a length, with Elected II., Bettie Bluff and Marion Hollins having a royal battle for the minor portions of the purse. Thorn Bloom was considered best in the fifth, but w;s always outrun. The Belgian II. scoring by a length and a half over Frank Monroe. The final race at a mile and an eighth fell to King John, the only favorite besides Itapid Day to -win during.-the- afternoon. Several claims were lodged during the afternoon: two for Sedan, one by T. E. Crist for 1,703 and another by the owner for ,003. Two were also lodged for Marion Hollins, one by G. W. Forman for ,703 and another by the owner for ,200. W. J. Reidel secured American Eagle for S1.S33, and C. X. Freeman retained Murphr for .723. Jerry Carroll claimed Pirate McGee for ,400, and G. W. Forman retained Sedgegrass for ,323. Frank Delbario, who races several horses at the Oriental Park meeting in Cuba, and a prominent business man of Havana, was a visitor here on Saturday. He will remain for a couple of days before returning to Havana. SAM LOUIS TO SELL HIS HORSES. Sam Louis announced that he would dispose of the horses he is racing here by auctiou in the paddock on "Wednesday. Chic Carlton, well known as an owner on the half mile tracks in Canada, is reported to be in a bad way in Toronto as a result of an attack of the "flu." J. W. May and G. W. Atkinson announced that they would ship their horses from here to New York at the conclusion of the meeting. The Ogden Stable will be shipped to Latonia on Wednesday of next week. William Garth returned from Kentucky much elated over the success of Cant. Ral Parrs two-year-old Blazes in the Breeders Futurity at Lexington on Saturday last. Blazes and Buliseye were exptcced to arrive during the afternoon. W. Carter shipped from New York via steamship for Havana on Friday last the horses Lackawanna, Walnut Hall and Messkit, the property of the Ar-monia Stable. Will McDaniel will leave for Cuba with the Senor A. H. Diaz string immediately following the close of the meeting here. Stuart Polk, while schooling the fractious racer Gipsey Geprge at the barrier this morning suffered a broken leg when that horse reared up and fell over backward on Polk. Edward McBride has named the yearlings he purchased at Lexington last week as follows: Fillv, by Judge AVright Lady McGee, Josie; filly, by Rock View Carolyn B.. Dora; colt, by Dick Fin-nell Indolent. Little Joe; colt, by Horron Chest-nut Belle. W. T. Grives; colt, by Jack Atkin Margaret Hastings, My Friend Pat.
