Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 May 1938 — Page 27

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"FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1938 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 27

10 NAMED TO START 64TH RUNNING OF KENTUCKY DERBY

Fighting Fox Is 2-1 Favorite With Stagehand Out of Classic; Sande Puts Hope on The Chief

Bull Lea, Dauber and Lawrin Backed Heavily; Menow, Can’t Wait, Elooto, Co-Sport and Mountain Ridge Complete Field: Crowd of 85,000 Expected.

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Records of Derby Starters

LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6 (U. P.).—The records of the 10 starters in the 8th Kentucky Derby follow: WinHorse Breeding Starts Won N 3d ings Fighting Fox Sir Gallahad TII-Marguerite $33,825 Bull Lea Bull Dog-Rose Leaves 11 13,005 Lawrin Insco-Margaret Lawrence 29,375 Dauber Pennant-Ship of War 17,255 The Chief Pennant-Transit 17,505 Menow Pharamona II-Alcibiades .. 69,025 Can't Wait Victorian-Winged Bee 17,700 Co-Sport Cohort-Sportress 18,020 Elooto Pompey-St. Rita ....... « 10 2,530 : : i SE RR : Mountain Ridge Royal Minstrel-Ethel Deer. 13 15,650 Tali Daan Sh Ed Menow . . Lawrin . .. 8 to 1

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historic Churchill Downs Indi li They slammed the lid on the entry box at 10:30 a. m. (Indianapolis LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 6 (U. P.).—Following is the field for tomorrow's 64th Kentucky Derby, listed in order of post positions: SQUARE NET MATCHES

Time) and the name of Stagehand, Maxwell Howard's winter-book favor~ | ha : Gling ite. was not in it. The Stagecraft colt was running a fever and coughing ull Lea .,.5 to 2 Earl Sande badly from a sore throat. : a” A Here is the field: Fighting Fox. The Chief, Bull Lea, Dauber, Menow, | ES go, o.

Lawrin, Can't Wait, Co-Sport,®—— OB Elooto and Mountain Ridge Chief’ s entry to the white office of o : Trainer Grief- Stricken Over . Barl Sande failed [he racing secretary. Undismayed by | & kh : When “trainer ig of Ana Notes the illness of Stagehand—most dra-| 3 2 Stagehand’ 3 liness. ie SC DN ait Tie ope | Matic Derby withdrawal in a deec-| ©: °% 1 o hook y 2, Sta y . fe] Li re ne he handed In his Sip 0 £ LOUISVILLE, Ky. . Mav 6 (U. P)

was surprised for the big horse has t Ive o in his sli i] i : ; ; been running a fever for 24 hows [ing as h handea 1 ! P Of Bois : oe —The little guy leaned against a

PROB. EE PP. HORSE OWNER JOCKEY ODDS | DUBLIN Ireland, May 6 (U. P.). » Lawrin H. M. Woolf E. Arcaro 8-1| _Ireland and Italy were all square Co-Sport Bert Friend R. Dotter 20-11 .: they resumed lav today tr Dauber Foxcatcher Farms M. Peters 8-1 | 2% ney resumed play loday in lhe Elootn Blue Ridge Farms "Faust 20.1 | first round elimination series of the . Fighting Fox Belair Stud J. Stout 2-1 | European Zone Davis Cup tennis Bull Lea Calumet Farm I. Anderson 3-2 | competition Can't Wait Myron Selznick L. Balaski - — paper. : oo : . Mountain Ridge Mrs. Ethel V, Mars A. Robertson 20-1 The teams were to play doubles and this morning it had a bad Trainer Frank Gearns put Bull | [oe & ; ; a | | White fence in the ‘moonlight and | The Chief H. Maxwell Howard J. Westrope 8-1 | today and end the series with two cough. Lea officially in the Derby a short| | EE Rae 3 5s yiried to get his Words past the | 10, Menow H. P. Headley R. Workman 8-1 [singles matches tomorrow. The The price on Fighting Fox was time after Warren Wright's strap-| } ; 2 SR i lump in his throat, Each carries 126 pounds. Weather forecast clear, track fast. Prob- | of the best of five match 2-1. Trailing him were Bull Lea, nine son of Bull-Dog and Rose| | = 4 5 3 Here on the same turf where re | apie post time, 4:30 p. m. Indianapolis time. Gross value $57.575. Net to 18 best ¢ at Dauber, Lawrin, The Chief, Menow. | peaves had worked an impressive | | oi i 4 : | found fame, hard luck had caught| winner if all start $47,575. Second $6000. Third $3000. Fourth $1000, | Series meets the winner of the PoCan’t Wait, Elooto, Co-Sport and | ¢ree-quarters. gE : up, after all these years, with the (pequct $500 from gross and net to winner for each scratch.) land-Denmark series in the second Mountain Ridge in that order. | Dauber came in next. Dick Hand- = : FE one who almost always had luck en | round. A crowd of 85,000 will be scream- ler, his trainer, dropped Dauber’s fo i i : in the saddle with him—Earl Sande. . . : ; ; ing at them when they start their entry into the box, muttering a : “You can say he’s out,” Sande said, Lightweight Title Eliminations wil be held here May run shortly before twilight tomor- prayer for rain, because his horse is| } J 2 i lifting his left foot to the fence rail. { 16 and May 23 to elect a new titlerow. It will be the biggest Derby the best mudder since the reptiles| i... aa : “I love that horse too much to take Fliminations Set | holder. The championship bout will crowd of all. first crawled out of the slime, fi 3 2 ES : a chance.” ——————— | be held in June. Downtown Louisville looked like| Forty minutes before the entry | : : ARE, He meant that Stagehand was| PT. WAYNE. May 6 (U. P) —The | Buck Mathias, promoter of the a county seat town at carnival time | deadline, Bert Friends Co-Sport| ; ; : § (out. Stagehand, the big beauty,|Indiana lightweight boxing cham-|two cards, said today he hoped to today. Hotel prices soared. Taxis | | was placed in the race to be followed | + . = 48 SE : 5 3 conquerer of Seabiscuit, favorite in| pionship throne was vacant today.| have six six-round bouts for the became scarce. Steaks were worth | : short! ly by that of Elovto, the last to a Ga ns : the winter book betting on the | Kenny Manes, last to rest on the opening night. Winners of the first their weight in devalued gold. The be filed. = ° : : Kentucky Derby, lay on a pallet of | throne, left the lightweight ranks | night's bouts will meet week later. streets were rivers of humanity, | ; : hi i straw 10 feet away. He was weak| after his weight soared hopelessly Winners of the May 23 bouts will fed by tributaries of alleys, side- y 2 RR 2 with a fever. over the stipulated 135-pound mark. ! meet for the championship. walks, lobbies and front doors of ry | }oa = ? : We So Stagchand was out and Sande private houses. I he Wi 1n nnah sh B= Fa ls : : BE | had made a lonely midnight journey | yyy)” Governors were thicker than mint | E g Bia a to Churchill Downs to see that the Wain

juleps. State Senators marched in : ge ; | big boy was tucked away in com-

platoons. Hollywood had so many AR i a rales ; 3 aR | fort for the night. As trainer for representatives here that no one F ohting Fe Fox Choice || oo TRE NPA | Maxwell Howard, owner of Stagelooked twice at a gal wearing false Of Majority in i a hand, Sande had the responsibility evelashes. cr . Fighting Fox...2t0 1 {| of declaring the horses in or out

All of them--poet, peasant, house- U. P. Poll | He told about it there by the side h & wife, banker and merchant—talked da , | of the barn where a slender shaving : . A only of the Derby. Never before se | lof a moon wasn't sending out | | Under the hot noon-day sun and in the did they have one exactly like this By United Press : | enough light to tell for sure whether | 777 / A :00l nightsof Kentucky's hills, this whisky

three horses with one of Gen. Far- | 7= . . n- | DPR ; | he said: hh ley’s smallest stamps when the race Dg le gy yo | % | tits $over is down io 2 hurived | drinking quality. is over. aa, turf writers polled by the United and a fraction. We've been rub-| 7 A Now everyone agrees that it justifies i 8 SS -eSS is thr i i " / : : bo al or totes Preemie op | "Fou know, its a fanny ihing.| § “ i = he.care, the ims sad patience spent ia The smaliest field in years, yes, I'he A Pitesitumons Jrained § |Back dn 1921 1 was going to ride 7. ; / making it. It proves again that the limeal »is she Siassiest. + six horses [out he oo og 24 a wet] & ; i : als Grey Lag in the Derby and I took / : : stone water from our Bourbon Xie Oe down We ne di ur riod Farm's Bull Lea was the choice of | ; A ® RAR him out for a workout. He stepped ith a ibid, adds character —that our famous clson and uy ee Sa Tia Nhe | | six selectors while Maxwell How-| | oo oul i . sa aa it off fast enough and we started for \ oa J 4 County distillers have lost none of their Chief, Menow. Any of them can ard s The Chief and Foxcatcher | ; : ; : : the barn, thinking we iad the Derby : \ 7 MM | skill. This is the first “country-made win it. All solid horses. That's why | Pann's Dauber received one vote | iy i Gey Lag Steppey on J ; / Kentucky Straight Bourbon Woiky the 85000 are going to be heatse | “The first three choices of the vot- walk a lick. I watched that Derby # 4 | made since repeal to be bottled in Bond. on ght hen ibe en | ers follow: from the stands. That's the break / i Ask at your package store or bar for in the White stands at the Downs. United Press (Noone) — Fighting ¥ Hh ; you get.” < : | BARD’ STOWN athe FIDDLE BOTTLE. > § : % ; He Can Take It : : / f Ue LL

TR oy : | Fox, Bull Lea, Dauber. ; : RUDBing a fever and coughing, New York World Telegram (Gali- i ¢ RE : | Sande peered out toward the 3 track which was a white strip under

Stagenand 1a¥ ivlus Straw ed jo | ani) —Fighting Fox, Bull Lea, Lawday while his Sisblemsle, The hiss ey the moon and your mind ran to al Mare Sa an oar | New York Sun (Boehm)—Fight- ; days when his luck was better. To Hope, 3 J ing Fox. Mehow, The Chief. : E : : 1923 when he kicked Zev home ¥ ‘i New York Racing Form (Plaut)— : ahead of the Derby field, to 1925 7 a : : The Chief worked a mile and |g ;;'ye, “Fighting Fox, Menow. : § | When he rode Flying Ebony to glory.| ¥~ : . a Our FIDDLE BOTTLE showed no sign of having picked Racing Form (Royden)—Bull Lea, § [to 1930 when he sat atop Gallant Ta ; ai 1% — created to honor up any of the bacilli that knocked | yy oC aon ihe Fox. | Fox as they handed him the horse- | “©. 7, \ BR he miko Stagehand out of the $30,000 classiC.| "a" [louis Star-Times (Keener)— | & shoe of roses that is part of the Yi Sa 0 PARE G “My Old Kentucky The favorite was the first one | Fighting Fox, The Chief, Bull Lea.| § s 3 Derby winner's prize. town in 1332 officially named for the Derby when | Washington (D. C.) News (Fore- | : | He took a the name of Belair stud’'s Fighting | caster) — Fighting Fox, Bull Lea Fox was dropped in the box at the | Lawrin. ! racing secretary's office this morn-| Raleigh News-Observer—Fighting | | tried to make sound cheerful, Sande ing Fox, The Chief, Bull Lea. § | Was gone. The little guy can take Next name in the box was that of Philadelphia Inquirer (Webster) — : \ | it. He can take it when the sailing Lawrin, the horse that almost won Fighting Fox, Bull Lea, The Chief. —_- = . . a |is smooth or when—to steal some the Derby trial race Tuesday, and| Memphis Press-Scimitar—Fight- | words from the song they will be was well thought of by many be- ing Fox. Menow, Lawrin, The Chief... 8 to 1 | playing tomorrow, “By and by hard cause of the fact that Eddie Arcaro,| New Orleans Item - Tribune | to | times come a- A-knocking at the door.”

nation’s tophand rider, will have a | (Hearty)—Fighting Fox, Bull Lea, | standing 6 feet 3 inches extended | | Sorin Ss NOTRE DAME BEATS

1 ‘on the Herbert M. Woolf | Lawrin Th QQ A ay B ; Ep 3s erent % | Nashville (Tenn) Banner—Fight- | CSZ to “ ppeat Marshal wo weeks ie gaining 2 WESTERN STATE, 9. 8 fall over 1e champ and} 4) I. . *4 \a A N I

Fighting Fox was entered by ing Fox, Bull Lea, The Chief former Tommy Driscoll, stable foreman.| Minneapolis Star (Heke)—FPight- On Armor y Card losing only after a tumble from the | Bill Whitley, agent for Woolf, en- Ly Fox, Lawrin, Bull Lea. a. ring. He crushed Jim Wright, 235, NOTRE DAME, Inc Ind. May 6 (U. tered Lawrin | Denver News (Davis)—Fighting Sap last Tuesday | P.).—Notre Dame defeated Western | |} Spangles of sunshine broke out | Fox. Bull Lea, The Chief Louis Thesz, 228, whe has twice “Gentleman” Joe Cox, 230, high- | State of Kalamazoo, Mich., here SKILBRU BEER eo EXPORT BEER across the racing strip today. There | Pittsburgh Press (August)—Fight- | defeated Everett Marshall during powered Kansaz “meanie,” will be | | yesterday afternoon, 9 to 8 getting was no indication of rain. The air! ing Bot: Bull Lea he ome ’ [the last 12 months, will be appear- in ae po ivingdup or Bl -star {3 Single SI wo sips to score the 4 A MM'S ALE 0 was cool and mild—ideal weather S ngelies ews (Hebert) — : we . ak Ce romote loy arter 10pes | IN BON Fighting Fox, Dauber, Bull Lea. |N8 for local action for the first (5 )and Dorve (Iron Man) Roche as | Western State 11 024 000—8 4 yearsold

for the 85,000 who will be screaming n ‘ | N Dame 010 05 12 3 100 proof when the field hits the stretch just | _ Dallas News (White)—Fighting [time in two years when he tops the | the opponent. Am Rascher also will | Notre Dame ......... 010 051 0x9 15 1| KAMM & SCHELLINGER CO., INC. + MISHAWAKA, IND. Sec evauis

| . i Timmerman, Selmo, Moran, Corey and before dusk tomorrow. | Fox, Bull Lea, Lawrin. | Armory wrestling card next Tues- | be on the bill. Aoel; Mandjiak, Ellis and Verhoestra. 100 proof The streets of Louisville still were |

San Diego Sun (Soemshars- lay night. The 22-year-old son of jammed with merrymakers at dawn Fizhuing Fox, Bull Lea, The Chief. |, "st. Louis shoe cobbler, clashes today and the city was on its yearly Dow York Racing Tab (Gaffney) | | with Henry Piers, 227, heavyweight carnival. The biggest group of | ‘Bull Lea, Fighting Fox, Dauber. ( champion of Holland spectators, hewever, arrive later to-

in ig (Clay)—Bull Lea, Marshall has dropped only two day when special trains from New |F'SHUNE FOX Meow. = Bull Lea | Matches in three years, both going spectators, however, arrives later to- | syed PS nD Ubu 8,

Picts oA ¥ to Thesz who annexed the title railroad yards and empty thousands. a NG JOE, JN now. {from Everett and dropped it six : : ricago Daily News (Hirtenstein) | months later in a “close one” to Chief Fifth Entered | —Bull Lea, Fighting Fox, Menow, | Steve (Crusher) Casey. Louie took Stagehands illness left Fighting Fristelphis_JAGASE Dauber, (one of three falls from Casey, being Fox on top of the field as the favor- oh ; XH ie snl the only grappler to tumble the eston inebaugh, The Ohio | Irishman in 150 matches.

ite, but many hearts and pocketbooks had pledged allegiance to Horse—The Chief, Lawrin, Fighting | Thesz is six feet tall and cat-like Fox. | in the ring. He is one of the biggest

Dauber, Bull Lea, Lawrin and The | Chief . | drawing cards in the game. Piers Before the sun drove the dew BooOkies Cleaned Up a ———

Duval Headley, nephew of owner ge age : : : : cause Stagehand. the winter Hal Price Headley. Pride of the blue [hook favorite won't run in orm | D i R g Vv grass folk, Menow has a reputation | pow's Kentucky Derby, bookmakers | of being a bolt of lightning away | Iwill make approximately $1,000,000. LOUISVILLE, KY.- MAY 7 Jrom the barrier; whether he can |i; was estimated today. :

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