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Joe Believes Pompoon May Make Showing
Calls Performance of Colt Saturday Nothing Short Of Mysterious.
By Times\ Special Writer NEW YORK, May 3.—Heading South. today most lof the Eastern bout ready to conentucky Derby to one of rses—either War Admiral or Reaping Reward. They have weakened on Pompoon, the winter book favorite. And that's easy to explain. Pompoon, asked to go a distance for the : first time in the ‘Wood Memorial, ran a miserable race to finish fifth behind colts nobody had figured seriously in the 3-year-old field. If that’s the best he can do when the chips are down, you can probably forget about him. The experts have been saying | : allalongthat Pompoon, like his daddy, Pompey, recouldn’t go a distance; that. he tas bred for sprinting. , The Weod,
A mile and 70 yards was supposed the test. Ther¢/ were some disge Reed, for in-
‘The v eran Tennessee handicapper point€d out that Pompoon was a long, free striding colt, whereas his daddy had a short, jerky stride . . “That’s why Pompey couldn't go a distance,” insisted Mr. Reed. “But Fompoon is different. He is gaited for route racing. This is one time you can ignore breeding.” Pompoon proceeded to make Mr. eed look very good in winning the Paumonok. True, this was more of a
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a lot of racing trouble to come from behind and win with such speed and bower as to indicate he was equal to any assignment on the calendar. Rated oH that performance he be-. came “the horse they had 4 in the Derby. y Fy oa Not Se High Now But today he doesn’t stand SO high. The rail birds don’t know how to figure him after his failure in the Wood. This was supposed to be a test of his stamina. As it furned out it wasn’t a test of anying. e Pom colt nothing. pey Showen If he had managed to get on top for a while and then faded you would be justified in saying the distance was too much for him. But this didn’t happen. _ He showed no speed at. all and was never a contender. From every angle his performance was so disappointing that it was unexplainable. It came close to being mysterious. The possibility exists that he was 2 tired colt. It took a lot of work to bring him to the track in time for the Paumonok, a race in which he was forced to match strides with older horses. This was no easy race either. : Keeping these items in mind, it may be a mistake to desert Pompoon too speedily. He's a much better
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colt~than his dull showing in the Wood would seem to suggest.! * War Admiral Promoted Meantime, War Admiral will prob- | ably be raised to an undisputed po- | sition of favoritism in the Derby, | closely followed by Reaping Reward. The Man O° War colt ran a | Smashing race in winning the! Chesapeake while Reaping Reward | closed out the 1936 season like a . champion—beating, among others, | Pompoon. © Unless he trains off, War Admiral Is certajn to receive a heavy play in the Derby. There are some who Say he is the best colt!the great Man O’ War ever produc and if this is so it is hard to see how he tan miss this week- at| Churchill Downs. Because Man O° War has sired some mighty fine colts. As a matter of fact War Admiral ‘looks and moves much like Crusader. He has an early burst of Speed and this is likely to serve him in good stead in the Derby, since it will allow his jockey, Kurtsinger, ‘to keep him out of the early crowding which has killed the chances of850 many Derby hopefuls in that riotous, tumultuous first quarter mile. This is where the Derby is generally won or lost.
Biukiyn Is Out To get back to Pompoon, his
spiritless showing in the Wood came as 2 headache to those who played him in the winter book where he was finally backed down to 4 to 1. The chances are he will be at least 15 to 1 at the track on the day of the Derby. This is just another illustration what ~ can happen to you if you play the winter book. The Bradley entry of Brooklyn and Billionaire also got a heavy play in the winter book. Once the entry was down to 6 to 1. In recent days the two colts have been beaten twice by ordinary performers and Brookyn has been withdrawn from the classic, leaving Billionaire as the Jone Bradley hope. | The other side! of the picture is nted by War Admiral. In the early listings the Man O° War colt was priced at 25 to 1. More} recently he was. shaved down to 15 to 1 to win, 8 to 1 to place and 4 to 1 to show. From the way the Derby is shaping up this was one of the few winter book bargains.
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heart wasn’t big enough. Book Proves False
the Kentucky Derby winter book has been proved
So, | once again,
War Admiral . . . takes over the reign.
The unexpected Wood Memorial race victory of Melodist, shown above, as he out-foeted Marshall Field's Sir Damion, puts the former in line for a pessible trip to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky race SatThe favorite, Pompoon, ran fifth. Melodist’s time, 1:42 4-5, was close to the Jamaica track record of 1:41 1-5.
ry Issues Warning About Picking Favorites
By HENRY McLEMORE ; United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 3.—I was too sure of my judgment. I said Pompoon, son of Pompey, dammed by Conagh, would finish third in the Wood Memorial Stakes at Jamaica. Ponipoon ran fifth and was lucky ¢—- He proved, much | to the disappointment of| those that | followed. him, that he was a chip | His old man | started grabbing his side after one mile, and that was just what Pompoon did when he had to pick up a man’s weight and carry it a man's distance. 3 ; When he won the Paumonok he looked like an old English sporting print, his neck was like a gander’s— he was reaching for every inch. He was being whipped for all the jockey had. In short he was shooting from taw. When the company got tougher his neck wasn’t long enough, his | legs weren't strong enough and his
the biggest gamble, the silliest gam-
ble, since Aaron bet eight to four the Red Sea would open. Two days
{ago when you mentioned Melodist,
people said, “Do you mean that remarkable horse with four legs and
a tail?”
And now they're saying
Melodist, owned by that needy ceouple, Mrs. H. C. Phipps and Ogden Mills, is one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to put foot in spiked shoe, or am I confusing this with
baseball?
What I am trying to tell you is
this:
I know nothing about horses
and yet I knew enough to know that Pompoon couldn’t go a distance. Yet there are tens of thousands of people in this Tountry who, every day, bet according to the opinion expressed in print by paid horse han-
dicappers.
win this race. lected Melodist.
The majority of these handicappers' named Pompoon to Not one of them se-
War Admiral Won't Win Moral—Nobody knows what in the
name of heaven a horse will do
when released from what I choose
to call the barrier.
Now
in the
next two or three days you will un-
doubtedly hear or read that War | Admiral is a cinch for the Derby. On paper War Admiral is a cinch
for the Derby. But he won't win the Derby. Some long, knock-kneed witch that you never heard of or
I never heard of or these profes-!
sional handicappers never heard of will swoop down from the cumulus clouds and cart away those devalued dollars. I am going to see the Derby this year. In fact I am leaving tomerrow by burro pack. But I will not flash you the name of this cumulus cloud witch until two hours before post time. Thus, if you will delay more than two hours jin getting to your hookmaker will] save your money.
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Police Rap Secos In Opening Tilt
With the veteran Hod Eller dis- | playing fine early-season form, the | Indianapolis Police pastimers - won their opening game of the season by defeating the Secos, 7 to 2, at Riverside Park yesterday. The score was 3 to 1 going into the ninth when | the Bluecoats rallied for four markers. ; Graf paced the winners’ attack with two singles and a double, Tames collected a double and triple and Kelly and Hines a walloped | triples. Garvich and O n led the | Secos” attack. The Poli€e will play | the Gas Co. nine at Riverside No. 2 at 10:30 a. m. next Sunday. Score yesterday:
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1 1 Eller’ and Mueller; Marcus. cme. : Scores of amateur and semipro baseball players weathered the | weather yesterday and took part in the first full day of sandlot com- | petition. The West Side Merchants | were leading, 3-2, when their game
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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LEAPS INTO DERB Late Entries Boost Total to 55 For 500-Mile Race May 31
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streamlined racer he drove into the money class last year. Rose, national A. A. A. racin champion, madg his debut yesterday in the red No.®® car which he will pilot for Lou Moore. Babe Stapp, colorful Texas driver arrived in town this week with ‘his eight-cylined Maserati, an Italian car he purchased from Henry (Bob) Topping Jr.. a New York sportsman.
This makes it certain that Stapp
and Mays will be clashing again in the front ranks for Mays is to drive an Alfa Romeo, another Italian car entered by Bill White. These will be the first foreign cars entered in the local race in several years. Wild Bill Cummings, Lou Meyer's teammate on the Mike Boyle team, has loomgd as the pre-race favorite by virtue of several’ extremely fast spins around the track during the last few weeks. Cummings won the
on the first lap last year with a frozen clutch. A young newcomer, Joe Thorne, a millionaire sportsman, has entered seven cars in this year’s race. One of them is the radically designed rear-engined, 16-cylinder creation of Lee Oldfield. Speedway officials are predicting that Lou Meyer's all-time record of 109.969 miles per hour will be shattered this year despite the fact that the rules have been changed to re-
1934¢race, took third place in the 1935 running and was forced out
quire standard commercial instead of doped 1 fuel.
Driver and City Mauri Rose, Detroit, Mich. George Connor, Los Angeles, Cal Babe Stapp, Los Angeles, Cal. .. Ronney Householder; Los Angeles, Unnamed
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Twenty-three additional cars have been entered in the 500-mile race to be run at the Indianapolis The com plete and final list totals 55. A total of 32 entries.
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Lou Moore Joseph Marks Henry Topping Jr. Henry Topping Jr. Pete DePaolo Chet Gardner Louis Meyer Phil Shafer Ray Yeager Lewis Welch Elgin Piston Pin Co. George Souders : Phil Shafer Joe Thorne Race Car Corp. Race Car Corp. Rudolph Wehr Rudolph Wehr Thomas O’Brien Milt Marion B. A. Piper J. L. Mannix Ted Nowiak and Carl Magnee
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City Pinmen High In Derby Tourney
Times Speeinl : LOUISVILLE, My 3.—Bowes Seal Fast of Indianapolis is in fifth place today in the five-man team standings of the annual Kentucky Derby Festival bowling tournament, in progress at the Madrid Recreation Alleys. The Hoosiers stacked up a total of 3014 in their appearance Saturday night, using games of 1009, 1046 and 959 to reach the score. Lou Daugherty paced the aggregation with a 659, Ed Striebeck had 617. Larry Fox, 602; Fonnie Snyder, 595, and
Dan Abbott, 541. Barbasols, the second Indianapolis entrant on the Saturday night schedule, failed to live up to their reputation, halting at 2691 in their ‘three | tries. Two of their members, how- | ever, turned.in classy performances in their singles appearances, Don | Johnson totaling 630 for third place | in the standings and Jess Pritchett |
Sr., 679 for fourth place. Abbott also | S€Ven innings. Score:
placed high’ with a 652. | In the doubles, Lee Carmin of the
and the pair combined totals for a 1285 that is good for third place in the present standings. Carmin had €54 and Striebeck 631. The Daugh-erty-Abbott duo also placed high with a 1242. Six additional Indianapolis teams are to face the maples on May 15 and 16, the closing dates of the event.
Vandiver Is High In 50-Target Meet
Breaking 48 out of 50 targets, ‘Richard Vandiver was the high man in the skeet shoot at the Capitol City Gun Club yesterday afternoon. Other scores included Gray, 47; Winders, 44; Beanblossom, 43;
Barbasols teamed with’ Striebeck, | m
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Millican, 42; Shore, 42; Farrow, 41; Martin, 40, and Korby, 40.
with Monrovia at the latter's diamond was called on account of the | rain. The two teams are to meet at | 2:30 p. m. next Sunday at the same | | place. : ] | The Seven Ups were rained out | at Bedford yesterday. The team would like to schedule a game with a strong state nine for next Sunday. Write or wire Bill Rider, or phone Riley 6776 during the day and ask for Mr. Dixon.
The A. C. Demaree softball team won. its second tilt yesterday by defeating the International Printers, 110-6. The pitching of Sugar Penk {and the hitting of Jack Alvis fea- | tured. The Demaree team will meet | the Shaw's Market aggregation next | Sunday at 10 a. m.
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Thevenow Is Traded To Boston N ationals
Times Special NEW YORK, May 3. — Tommy Thevenow, the Madison, Ind. veteran utility infielder with the New | York Giants, was traded last night to the Boston Bees in return for |
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Sterling Beer Nine Wins at Lafayette
Ry United Press LAFAYETTE, May 3—The .Sterling Beer baseball team of Indianapolis scored a 6-to-4 victory over the Lafayette Red Sox in an Indi-ana-Ohio League game yesterday. Pitcher Lefty Kertis of the Indianapolis team hurled hitless ball for
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he would begin training Wednesday or Thursday at Speculator, N. Y.,| for a fight which he and only a few | others think will come off. “I have a contract to fight Braddock,” he said, “and I'm confident
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RICHMOND, May 3.— Paced by the stellar pitching of Johnny Twigg, who fanned 10 batters and gave up only four hits, the Richménd Kautskys won their opening Indiana-. Ohio Baseball League game yesterday, defeating the Dayton Monarchs; | 4 to 0. Score;
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