Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-25
DERBY WILL BERU
Rain or Shine in the Windy
City Today.
FASTEST MUD HORSE WILL VII
A Clear Sky Is AL That is Necessar,
10 Draw Out Sport Lovers.
The Starters.


CHICAGO, June 2l.-The American
derby will be run q, the Washington
Park track tomorrow. ram or shine.
mud or water. TINS is the positive an
nouncement of the officials of the
track. 1t is not that there has ever been
the least possibility of a posIponemenI
At the same time the weather during
the last two weeks has been of such an
unprecedented nature, such vast tor
rents of rain have fallen, and, arguing
from the experience OF the last few
days, the chances are 30 greatly In
favor of another downpour tomorrow,
there may be q triiiink doubt in the
minds of come unused to the ways of
the racing men AS to whether the re-
msrkable watery condition OF the
weather might not interfere with the
great race. This matter can be set at
rest at once.
The Derby must be run at the time
advertised tomorrow, and it shall be
run even if the track be twice ae muddy
and sloppy as il 10 now and the paddock
four times as soft. OF course, it will be
u mud race, even should the sun come
out benignly and shine all day long ON
the steaming track. All the sun of
Africa. Australia and India could not
make any race track In Chicago hard
and fast by tomorrow afternoon, and il
ls a foregone CONCLUSION now that the
horses and the jockeys will be indis-
tipguishable when they all romp by the
grand stand in the home stretch to-
morrow.
The Spirit Has Grown.
From betting point of view the
derby, and, indeed, the whole meeting
at Washington park. Is full OF large
promise. 1t is a fact that OF recent
| years-say IN the last three years--the
! spirit of betting on horse races has
grown remarkably among the Amerl-
can people. The spirit has spread
throughout all classes. Merchants.
brokers and business men generally. to
say nothing OF the young generation.
take keener interest in horse racing
than before and indulge in bets with q
freedom that ten years ago was un-
known. Racing has taken to itself many
thousands of men who before their
conversion TO it were interested alto
gether in base ball: and it is pre-.
dlcted that the Washington park meet
ing this season will see u larger attend.
ance in the betting ring than during
any other meeting of the club. That
the bookmakers know and realize this
is quite plain. The betting ring At the
track has been enlarged and there will
be at least one hundred bookies under
the shed tomorrow with accounts capa.
BILE of meeting the largest demands
made upon their patience. The exodus
from the southern tracks has already
begun and the festive "books" Will
troup into town tomorrow by the
dozen. LatOnla and st. Louis will send
their share of the western wagerers and
several of the boldest and bravest OI
the guild in the east are now on theil
wav to Chicago amid the cushions oI
the most fashionable and comfortable
trains.
will be Worth 100000.
word about the derby itself anc
the starters: So far as can be known
now there will be about ten or a dozer
| eGIttIe. nC SaiuC vi tllc IaCc VIII pt
little upward of $40, ZOO, sum almos
| identical with the value of the race
last season. There were about th,
same number of entries and declara
tions, SO that from sporting point o.
view the race is assured OF being a fin,
success. Zaldivar, owned by NJ. F
Smith, is the favorlte In the bettin,
and will be ridden by O'Hearn. Tn
| e.
ARA and Bashford. the first to be rid
den by Clayton the second by Brit
ton. Fitzpatrick has the mount fol-
Swigart's Carlsbad. The Corrigai
starter will he Cicero, ridden by Over
Justice and Ray will ride Holloway
Farraday. The Baldwin stables gener
ally start two horses, and this year ar
TO be represented by GalIndo and Sal
onica, ridden respectively by Barne
starters are UnIatillo, Robert Weitbree
O'sullivan, Newton and Juliu
Sax. The exact condition of tn
track tomorrow for there are degree
! IN mudiness) will undoubtedly hav
some effect on the mInde of th
trainers, SO that at this writing il 10 nc
possible 10 give exact facts. However
the list will come from those abov
mentioned with small change.
The card for tomorrow's races cor
tains five events. The first il purs
! of 500 at one mile, for thrce-year-old
and upward; the second is purse q
500, for three ycar-olds and upward
at six furlongs; the third race IL tn
great derby itself; the fourth 10 purs
! OF 500 for horses of the same ages 9
the first two purees at q distance of
mile and q sixteenth, and the laet rae
il a 5000 puree for colts of two veal
old at FIVE fnrlongs. The races ar
announced 10 start at 2.30 o'cloc
sharp in the afternoon. The Derb
will be run about O'Clock.