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WIDENER COLORS IN FRONT Mr. Sponge Triumphs Over Commuter in Primer Handicap. Aqueduct Program Made Up of Series of Overnight Races Action Furnishes Surprise. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 27. In a program made up of overnight races, the best Monday offering of the Queens County Jockey Club was the Primer Handicap. This was won rather handily by Joseph E. Wide-ners Mr. Sponge, with Ella De T. Simpsons Commuter racing into second place and Stagecraft, a stablemate of Mr. Sponge, was third. The only other starter was J. G. Langs Footmark. It was interesting sport, with the fields well matched and a crowd of good proportions was out for the occasion. In this sprint handicap that went to Mr. Sponge, he was the top weight under 126 pounds and rated behind the pace set by Commuter he came away in the final furlong to be the winner by a length and a half. Commuter saved second place by twice that distance from Stagecraft and it was apparent that he was just a bit short. Commuter drew away into a long lead in the early stages and until a furlong from the finish he was holding his opponents safe but, in the final furlong, his lack of condition told and he tired to have Mr. Sponge race past and be winner by a length. Commuter had saved second place from Stagecraft by three lengths and Footmark, after showing a flash of early speed, was last of the four that raced. The second provided a fighting finish when War Hero, from the Glen Riddle Stable, won a close decision over Scout Master. Well back of these War led Jimmy Sutro and Sansarica past the line. It was a good start and Sansarica and War, closely lapped, were the ones to set the pace, with War Hero following them and racing well out from the rail. Continued on twenty-first page. WIDENER COLORS IN FRONT Continued from first page. This order was maintained until the stretch was reached. There War had San-sarica beaten, but the son of Sansovino had hung on so long that he took considerable out of the Sagamore colt and then it was that Scout Master finished with a rush. He soon had War headed and beaten, but the same time War Hero was gaining on the outside. In the final drive it was a two-horse race, as Scout Master and War Hero drew away from War. They fought it out to the final stride, where War Hero dropped his head down in front to earn the decision. This final duel had taken the pair of them out five lengths before War, which tired badly and evidently had not entirely recovered from his hard race in the Brookdale Handicap Saturday. War was fourth lengths before Jimmy Sutro, which ran past Sansarica in the final furlong. A
