The sun., 1919-10-28
THREE WINNERS FOR
dKUMMER AT LAUREL
His. Skill Enables George
Clark, ArditO and POacher
to Earn Purses.
BRIDESMAN is A VICTOR
Displays Burst of Speed in
Stretch and Beats Slippery
Elm in Handicap.
Special Despatch 10 THE Sun.

BALTIMORE. Oct 27.-Jockey Hummer,
who won the split second watch. en-
blematic of the BEST riding honors at the
Empire City track meeting. made mis- first
appearance of the season at the Laurel
track to-day and gave the Marylanders
a sample of his skill In the saddle by
riding three winners, George Clark, Ar
ditto and Poacher. Clark and Poacher
were favorites, but Ardito was the long
est shot of the meeting, paying the
soodly price of $3.50, nearly 81 to 1.
Hummer handled his three mounts
well, and 1t was his patience and clever
ness In holding his mounts under a
steady rein that enabled them to land
the purses. The track was deep in
sticky, heavy mud The jockeys who
made too much use of their horses dur
ing the early progress of each race
came to grief. Their mounts stopped in
the stretch.
George Clark won the second race
easily after waiting upon Louise V. to
the stretch. In the final straightaway
Hummer gave the son Of st. James his
head and he sprinted to the front and
won by open daylight.
Bullseye. q winner at Saratoga, was
made the favorite for the fourth race,
q six furlong dash. It was his first ap-
pearance In several weeks. Lack of
condition. plus a big package of weight,
served to anchor him and Ardito, a
handsome looking son of His Majesty,
came from the ruck and won his maiden
race of the year. Incidentally it was
So. a. hot
ford A Cochran, won in Maryland this
year. Ardito found his task a hard one
and pulled up very lame.
Hummer Subs for Ensor.
Hummer had things all his own way
IN the last race. Buddy Ensor was
scheduled to ride Poacher. but failed q
appear IN time to weigh out. and Kum-
mer was substituted. Poacher took an
early lead and. opening up a gap OF
four lengths. gradually improved his
advantage and galloped home an easy
winner by big streak Of daylight.
The handicap at one mile was the
carded feature of the programme. Slip.
perry Elm, on the strength OF his easy
victory last Saturday. was made the IA
vorite.. He should have won, as the
going was In his favor and his weight
sS pounds. Just suited him. But Pierce
raced him weary In the early stages Oi
the contest and when Jockey Callahan
brought up Bridesman from the real
with a rush Slippery Elm was too weak
TO respond to the challenge and Brides
man beat him out in the last two
strides.
The Porter. Lucullite and several other
good handicap horses were named tC
start in this race. but were scratched.
A big delegation of New Workers ar.
rived to-day and they made the iron mer
hum with the wagers they placed.
A horse that can win a race in Mary,
land is worth almost any sort of q
price. The purses to-day are worth
s1.733. Tomorrow the values will bt
$2,101. Because of these big purse.
horsemen are busy bidding up horses Fl
selling races On Saturday the surplu!
over the entered selling prices amounted
TO $3.50.
Sam c. Hildreth, willis Sharpe XII
Tner, Capt Raj Parr and James Nc
Clelland shipped their strings TO Pimlic,
to-day. Blazes, the winner Of the Ken
lucky Futurity, is being prepared b!
Billy Garth for the Walden Stakes, tn,
mile event which is one OF the feature
OF Pimilico's meeting. which opens OF
G.