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EARL DEW STAR APPRENTICE Probable Leader of Riders Now Campaigning at Fair Grounds. Headed Jockey Colony at Fairmount. and Sportsmans Park Leading Pigskin Artists at Present. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 2. With a galaxy of top-notch apprentices sporting silks at the Fair Grounds this season, indications point to the youngsters staging a spirited battle for the riding championship of the Louisiana Jockey Clubs winter meeting, and one of the lads who is being strongly considered as the probable leader is Earl Dew. Showing an average of better than a winner a day for the first three days of the current session in the Crescent City, Dew has taken the lead over his rivals for riding honors and in doing so displayed excellent saddle tform. Dew has ridden four winners thus far and, with his services in great demand, is expected to add to his collection steadily. It was on May 28 of this year that Dew booted home the initial winner of his saddle career at Ak-Sar-Ben, in Omaha, Neb., and since that date has headed the jockey colony at Fairmount Park and Sportsmans Park in Illinois during the fall. The youngster, a product of the West, has proven himself an apt horseman and is proving extremely popular with local racing fans. STERN COMPETITION. While Dew is perched on top of the heap at the conclusion of the first three days of racing at the Fair Grounds, there will be some stern competition among the apprentices, with such youngsters as "Chuck" Charlton, Willie McCadden, Bobby Conley, Delpha Castille, Charlie Carlberg, Earl Ma-loney, Billy Joe Cassity, Eddie Robart and a flock of others sporting silks. The first victory of Dews riding career was scored while astride Hot Cinders, a 15 to 1 chance, and the lad has made steady progress. Another youngster who has come to the fore with leaps and bounds since the early fall is Charlton, who hung up the first victory of his career at Latonia, guiding Mrs. Edward Haughtons Texas Rose home in front on that occasion.
