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LIFT BAN ON JOCKEY TURNER Maryland Jockey Club Restores Rider to Good Standing Employed by B. Hernandez. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 21. Restoration, to good standing of jockey .Leonard Turner by the Maryland Racing Commission was received by "the Louisiana Jockey Club stewards here today in the form of a letter from James F. Hayward, secretary of the racing board in the Old Line State, and Turner immediately filed application for a license to ride at the Fair Grounds. Turner, who has been here for the past three weeks, exercising the horses of the local turfman, Norman Hernandez, announced that he is in fine fettle and that he Is down as light as 112 pounds and expected to shave a few more pounds off after he gets to riding regularly. The Washington reinsman has returned to the employ of Hernandez, for whom he starred in the saddle a few years agopiloting the local sportsmans racers to several important stakes victories here and elsewhere.
