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DOUBLE FOR PARSON Chief Sponsor and Our Maid Carry His Colors to Victory. End Man Disappointment in Race Won by San Diego Fayelle Again Triumphant. HAVANA, Cuba, December 27. The colors of the western turfman J. A. Parson were much in the limelight at Oriental Park this afternoon when they were carried to a double victory. Our Maid, an outsider, which paid ?52.S0 in the mutuels, winning in the opening dash, while Chief Sponsor took the feature race, the Year End Handicap. Both horses were ridden by G. Williams, Our Maid winning by a scant half-length from Sun Turret in a driving finish, while Chief Sponsor set his opponents a terrific pace from the start and scored easily by a couple of lengths from Belle of Elizabethtown. Stuts, the clever apprentice who came here from Kentucky, put up a good finish on Superior in the second. After a hard drive ho managed to get his mount to last long enough to beat Deer Trail by a head. Ambrose put up about as good a ride as he ever showed when he won the third with San Diego. He nursed the latter along in the early stages and in the stretch, when the leaders began to tire, brought San Diego up with a rush and nailed Runnan in the final strides to win by a head. End Man, the odds-on favorite, after racing in a commanding lead in the early stages, tired badly in the homestretch and Miss Caltha beat him by a short margin for the small end of the purse. Fayelle, ridden with good judgment by Callahan, who did not hurry in the first half, but rounding the far turn moved up and carried Mayroso along to the eighth post, where Fayelle took the lead. Callahan was forced to shake up his mount a bit at the end to stand off the challenge of Prospector, which came from behind and finished fast DUKE RUFF EASY WIJfER, Duke Ruff proved an easy winner in the sixth. He followed behind the pacemaker to the eighth post, where he went to the front and was under restraint at the finish. The three horses that S. J. Kelley brought from New Orleans will run under the colors of J. S. Peck. They are Far East, Carmen Lee and Kentucky Smiles. W. B. Finnegan, acting for Bill Knebel-kamp, yesterday sold at private terms to C. L. Heald the four-year-old gelding Memphis. The horse has been turned over to F. D. McElroy to be trained. Most of the men on the block in the big ring who cut in today are old-time bookmakers. Their faces have been familiar to Oriental Park patrons for a number of years. Billy Duane is taking money in the field book, while Bert Johnson conducts the combination book. The other layers in the line are Peter Doll, Henry Wendt, Lee Wagner, Jack Nasmyth, Charlie Ross, Charles Xorris, R. J. Horner, Louis Jennoss, Dave OConnor, and Jim Parsons is taking money in the field stand. Bacanal, the two-year-old filly by Great Britain Golden Ruby, which was bred by James Milton, who afterward sold her to Senor E. Alvarez, was brought from the Alvarez ranch near Pinos here this morning to be placed in training. She is now the property of M. Silvers and will -be trained by W. E. Suggs. The filly was brought to Cuba when five months old and has never faced the barrier. Golden Ruby, her dam, died in Cuba some months ago. Duke of Wellington was excused from starting in the sixth today when trainer Hak reported to the stewards that the son of Ballot had bled after being worked this morning. The attendance at the track today was augmented by the presence of a numer of recently-arrived American tourists.
