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! ! j i GARNER RIDES THREE WINNERS « Joseph E. Widener Colors Score Double at Jamaica Course. ♦ Two-Horse Fields Furnish Entertainment in Two Races — Poor Program Affects the Days Attendance. « NEW YORK, N. Y., May 2.— With two of the races bringing out only two horses, and another with a field of four, the entertainment offered by the Metropolitan Jockey Club at Jamaica today was not up toihe New York standard. As a result the attendance was light, though the weather was ideal. The setting for these small fields was not particularly attractive with two races for maidens and another for plater3 of the cheapest variety. Mack Garner proved a star of the afternoon when he rode the first three winners of the day. He scored with Winning Ways over a big field of maiden three-year-old fillies, and his next two victories came on horses of his employer, Joseph E. Widener. These were the two-year-old Hastipast, and the sterling old sprinter Mr. Sponge. The first of the two-horse fields came in the Fulton Handicap, in which Joseph E. Wideners Mr. Sponge was only opposed by Dr. Irving Jacobs Sun Mission. It was natural that this should give Garner his third straight winner of the day, and that there should come a double for the Joseph E. Widener silks. Mr. Sponge was so much better than the old son of Sun Briar that it was only a gallop for him and Garner had the son of Luke McLuke under steady restraint all through the race. The second two-horse race of the day was the Commonwealth Handicap, and it brought about one of the thrills of the afternoon when Quillan, the French horse, which races for the Bray Farms Stable, just got up to win in the final strides from James Butlers three-year-old filly Star Fire. It was a good start, and Mills at once went out with the filly, while Mann had to hustle the Frenchman along to keep within striking distance in the first half mile. On the turn out of the back stretch Quillan moved up as though to decide the ja.ce right there, but Mills had saved something for the challenge, and when he called on the daughter of Vulcain she hung to her lead doggedly. Then again at the stretch turn Mann made a second attempt to take the lead with Quillan, and still the filly hung on. Mills had saved ground turning into the stretch, and Star Fire was giving a great exhibition of gameness under his urging. Finally Mann had to rap Quillan sharply with the whip before the son of Ksar was alongside, and it was not until the final strides that he had his head in front to earn the decision. The opening race brought about a good contest, with Winning Ways the winner over Seasaint, and Griette just saving third from Thoughts. On the turn for home Nome tired badly, and Seasaint showed signs of tiring a furlong from home. It was there Garner made his move with the winner, and she gained fast to catch Seasaint and be past the line winner by a length. Griette, which had raced fourth practically all the way, had a lively battle with Thoughts before she earned third by a head, while Nome had quit badly in the final furlong. J. E. Wideners Hastipast was the winner over a big band of maiden juvenile fillies in the second race. White Bud raced into second place and Via Appia saved third from All Play. The start was a good one. though Authority was badly bumped just as the barrier went up. After turning into the short stretch, All Play tired, and White Bud headed a furlong from the finish. Garner then made his move with the daughter of Haste and, coming with a rush in the final sixteenth, she swept past the line winner by two lengths. White Bud had lasted to save second place by a length and a half, and Via Appia, with a belated rush, beat the tired All Play for third. G. D. Wideners Errant was easily best in the fifth, which only engaged three others. She won with something to spare over L. Strubes Epoch, and William Grotes Glos- sin beat Mrs. J. Dalys Banty for third. There was not much to this race, for Leish- man at once took the lead with Errant and she never surrendered her command. Glos- sin raced after her to the stretch turn, and Coltiletti had him under a drive to try and run the filly down, but in the last furlong the old fellow tired badly, while Epoch, sav- ing ground on the inside, ran past him to take second place.
