St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-14
KINGMAN WON EASILY
Under a Pull to the Stretch
the Derby Winner Makes
Slow Time.
Kentueky's Great Event Was,
for Once, Very Tame
and Flat.
Forty Thousand People We're
on the Ground to Cheer
the Winner.
Fifty Bookmakers Could Not
Handle the Many Wagers
offered.

LOUISVILLE, May 1S.-Although the
Derby proved tame, fiat and uninterest-
ing, the regular spring meeting of the
Louisville Jockey club was most auspi-
ciously inaugurated at Churchill Downs
to-day. Early i'll the morning low, black
clouds gave promise of ram. The wind
blew in fitful gusts and made the streets
of the city disagreeable. 1t turned
cooler towards noon, the clouds were
driven away, the sun shone out
brightly, but the dust and the wind re-
mained. The Kentucky Derby, the
first severe race for Western three
year-olds, was to be run in the after
noon. and Derby day in Louisville and
Kentucky means what all holidays put
together and rolled into one might do in
other places. The city was overrun
with strangers drawn here by the Dem
ocratic state convention, that assembled
at noon and adjourned in honor Of the
occasion. Attracted by the races, people
followed the horses from Nashville and
Lexington, and the whole state emptied
itself into Louisville, where the coming
equine champions were To meet in a
Misunderstanding test of stamina and speed
on the turf. Scotch-Irishmen were mere
from all over the United States to at
tend their convention, and OF course
they helped swell the crowd. Advance
delegations of Elks, day in advance of
their national meeting, were here, and
there were thousands OF strangers from
Southern Indiana, North and Central
Tennessee, and West Virginia and Ohio,
who came in just
T'O See thc Derby.
Vehicles Of every kind were In de-
mand, and as early as II O'Clock the as
phalt drives and bouleyards to the
Downs were lined with coaches. car
riages, buggieS, traps, pony carts, eX-
press wagons, omnibuses and vehicles
Of all kinds. and the tide of pedestrians
and street car passengers was pouring
| into the course. The field inside the
track ratings was fun, and people OF
every class aud occupation stood for
hours there in the hot sun and blowing
dust, maintaining uncomfortable pO-
Sitions to enjoy the sport that was to
come. BY 2 O'Clock there were $4,000
people in the field, and every .eminence
without the inclosure was black with
people. The grand stand, enlarged since
ldSJ JcdIs anu lllt lcNlH IdWllS
we're jammed, and on top of the stands
so great was the crowd perched there
that apprehensions were felt that there
would be a collapse and great acci-
| dent. Enough people gained admission
| to swell the attendance to 10000, and
among them was the largest number OF
ladies ever in the ladies' stands, club
house and lawns. The betting stand
was occupied by fifty boOkmakers, and
they had a great deal more than they
could attend to. 1t was here that the
| jam was greatest, and it was serious
undertaking to attempt 10 work ones
way from one boOkmaker's stand to his
neighbours. Betting was of the llyeliest
kind, and the bookmakers made a
| money haul. OF course the Derby
was the great attraction. and the
public took what luck gave
them in the preliminary racas
with the greatest good humor. 1t had
been announced that the starters in the
derby would be Hart Wallace, Valera,
Georgetown, BalgOwan, Kingman, and
EastOn and Larabie's PAIR, High Tariff
and Poet Scout. Hon. Bill Owens, of
Georgetown, owner of Georgetown, con-
cluded his colt was not fit and refused
to subject HIM 10 the trying ordeal and
he was announced as a non-starter.
This was
a Disappointing
to the public who expected to see q colt
that was such good one last year be
right up in the hunt. The Scoggin
brothers also decided not 10 try any
experiments with Valera, whom they
wanted to save, and the bookmakers
drew blue line across the horse's
name. Easton let High Tariff, the
best of his pair, remain in, and
these, with Kingman and Hart Wal
lace, made the field. Kingman's
great race at Lexington entitled him to
first call in the betting, and it was a
liberal bookmaker that laid odds OF 800
to $500 on the winning. Balgowan was
second choice at TO 2; with and 10 to
l obtainable against Hart Wallace and
High Tariff. The place odds against
Balgowan were 2 to ). Some book
makers laid to 5 against the field and
those who thought history would repeat
itself and that the Odds-on favOrite
would again be defeated laid against
Kingmau in this fashion. The trump
eter's "boots and Saddle' at O'clock
cleared the betting stands, and then
there was stampede for advantageous
positions or any point where even any
kind of view of the course could be
obtained. Everything was expectancy
and excitement, and ber0kened great
interest in what was to come. The
course was cleared of narrowing teams
and scrapers, andfrom the west gate
clean limbed, strongly y-muscled, trim
but large-boned colt gracefully cantered
down the track. AS he drew near his
cleaning glossy flanks, his clean limbs,
his movements, his slnew and his every
motion promised strength and speed.
Under the wine-yelloW and blue of
Kinsea Stones Jacobln stable, appeared
Kingman, king of equines, best rode by
Isaac Murphy, the coored Archer, and
recognition of horse and rider was fol-
lowed by cheers that the surrounding
knobs and hilltops took up and echoed
back again. Gracefully removing his
cap,
Murplp Swept BY
and the black and white stars Of the
Balgowan stables next attracted atten-
ton. The colt was ridden by the black
Overton, and if conqueror was to be
found for Kingman. Balgowan was his
name. KiIey, on Hart Wallace, and r.
Williams, on High Tariff, cantered past
the crowded stands and to the half-mile
pole. where Starter James B. Ferguson
awaited them. Ranged up. they were
given the flag at the first attempt.
They're off?' from thousands of
throatS, came next. The seventeenth
Derby was making, and there never
was such crOwding and battling for a
first view of the racers. Slowly the pace
was set, with High Tariff making the
running; Balgowan at the saddle girths,
and Kingman and Hart Wallace we'll
up. The pace was slow, and at the