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or VICTORY FOR MAHER « Fly Hawk Easy Winner of Havre de Grace Feature. Star Hawk Gelding Defeats Prickly • Heat by Four Lengths — Outsider Scores in Fourth. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., April 2S— William Maher, the Miami sportsman, furnished the winner of this afternoons feature race at Havre de Grace, the Hampton Handicap, when his four-year-old Star Hawk geldin.T, Fly Hawk, won by the comfortable margin of four lengths from F. H. Smiths Prickly Heat. The Seagram Stables Wandering Minstrel was third, beaten five lengths for second place, and then followed C. A. Coylts Sea Rocket, beaten off. There were only six starters in the Hampton Handicap, George De Mar and Golden Spire being withdrawn. It was a dash of a mile and a sixteenth. L. Morris had the mount on Fly Hawk. The field was sent away to a moving start and Fly Hawk left the post full of run. On the first turn he • raced Crossco into defeat and. on the back stretch, drew away into a comfortable lead. He was then taken in hand by Morris and, when Craigmyle made his bid with Prickly Heat on the far turn, Fly Hawk had something in reserve and again drew away, increasing his advantage all through the last sixteenth. Weather conditions were most unfavorable for outdoor sport. A drizzling rain fell all 1 afternoon and the footing was sloppy, just t the sort to suit mudlarks. The public had i a good line on the horses that fancied this sort of going as the afternoons results « showed. Favorites won the first three races and, in the feature race, Fly Hawk was the public choice. George W. Lofts Donnacona filly Blandris [ was an easy winner of the first race, when she beat Susan Rinehart by six lengths. The winner simply reveled in the going. Jockey Morris had her in hand in the early stages, following the pacemakers until making the turn into the home stretch, where she slipped through next to the inside rail and 1 in the final eighth drew away into a long . lead. Susan Rinehart began rapidly, but was quickly joined by the Nevada Stock Farm Stables pair, Voyage and Violado, and these three raced heads apart on the far r turn. Entering the home stretch Susan 1 Rinehart bore out, carrying the Nevada J Stock Farm Stable pair wide. All three tired when the real issue came. Whizzing Cloud, which races for Frank Hayes, proved best of the band of platers which went to the post in the second race, • for which he was favorite. Ridden by the : clever apprentice H. Little, Whizzing Cloud J beat Honeyco by a length and a half. Sly r Polly was third and Alex Woodliffe fourth. Milaria and Lady Glassen were the ones to set the early pace. Before they had gone an J eighth, .Tenner found an opening next to the inside rail and, rushing his mount through, • Continued on fourteenth page. : VICTORY FOR MAHER on 1 1 1 1 1 1 - . l from first page.t took the lead. Whizzing Cloud in the meantime was racing on the outside of the pacemakers, but at the turn out of the back stretch lie moved up. He carried Honeyco along at a fast pace and in the stretch run headed the latter to draw away in the last fifty yard*. Willis Sharpe Kilmers good-looking maiden Spear Rock displayed rare courage in a long, hard stretch drive to beat Buntaris by the smallest of margins in the running of the third race, a dash of a mile and seventy yards for maiden three-year-olds. The winner was ridden by jockey Craigmyle. who put up a strong finish. F.untaris hooked up with Spear Rock rounding the far turn and they raced like a team in the last three-eighths. For a time it looked as if Buntaris might pass the leader, but Spear Rock hung on like a bulldog and was ■ nose in front of Buntaris passing the stands. Honi Soit was third, twelve lengths back. There were only three starters in the fourth race and the usual thing happened in events of this kind — the outsider won. Hedgefence, Tazewell and Faddy were scratched, leaving Tall CJrass, Dancing Fool and Potent to go. Speculation was divided between Dancing Fool and Potent, with Tall Grass neglected. The race was run to suit the outsider. In the early running Potent and Dancing Fool drew away, the former leading by a long margin the first epiarter. with Tall Gram a distant follower. Down the back stretch Craigmyle rushed Dancing Fool up and rounding the far turn went to the front. Smith in the meantime had been gradually reducing the big gap the pacemakers had opened up and in the run through the home stretch was taken to the ouLside. He finished fast the last eighth, while the leaders tired badly, and at the end won going away by two lengths and a half. Dancing Fool beating Potent a length for second place. J. B. Campbell was an arrival at Pimlico, where he will take up the duties of racing secretary until the arrival of Frank J. Bryan, who at present is ill at his home in Glen Cove, Long Island.
