New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
10000 " atch
Riddles Colt
Win at | to 7
wildair, Second by Two
Lengths. May Also Have
Run Under Record Time
By w. ]. Macbeth


env other country in winning yester-
davis renewal Of the historic stake,
The Withcrs. at Belmont Park, Man O.
Var. lighting Jockey Clarence Hummer r
tsr his head practically every inch of
-h, wav. ~caIoDed the mile in minute
IS As seconds. This set new world s
record far mile race around turns
and e new track record for the distance
a. course.
Harry Yayne Whitney's Wildair, which
gon the Metropolitan Handicap at the
o.rring of the Belmont Park meeting
last Monday afternoon, acquitted him
f nobiv. even though nc finished
mere than two lengths behind Man
q War, which was pulled to a canter
through the final sixteenth. Wildair
showed o better mile in competition
tAan probably any other horse Of his
-,rv. with the exception of the same
Man O War in his record breaking
nerformarce Of yesterday afternoon.
Certainly the Whitney colt finished
1itSin two-hfths Of a second of Samuel
1.tUe's champion Of cham plons; and
up 10 Yesterday Willis Sharpe Kilmer's
e-r Briar held the worlds record for
gre - lie. established at Saratoga in
IolS. cJ 1855 Is.
Ta.s fft.c,l renewal o. one Of the
r-ry oldest and most sentimental clas-
les oi tte american turf. which was
aa-.ra,ej TT old Jerome Park away
tsck in 1879, viii not go down III the
annals CT the sport as great race.
!. WASH. race 81 ali. But it was one
g. the very finest exhibitions of power,
gamma, endurance, courage, spirit
zrl cameness Call that is great and
r'rious and good as typifed by the
-50ro1cabred) ever seen anywhere in
a-y age and as such will live forever
,s tse memory Of every one privileged
% see Man O. War as he appeared at
very best.
Record Crowd Sees Race
And he number was legion. Not
fnce the old field stand was used. at
ls5st wes such 3 multitude gathered at
Belmont Park as the crowd which
focked out yesterday TO worship last
years two-year-o.d champion and the
winner Of this years Preakuess. Close
e. $1,000 were there; they expected to
view something worthy the journey and
inconvenience. Nor were they disap-
pointed.
Yet Man O. War foiled the best efforts
Of ENda,r's game challenge with such
ease and grace and percepJible reserve
95ger throug ghout there WAS a senti-
mert q general appointment until
.ae timers hung out the official 1885 a..
rye eIo"o Is euICN 70 grasp STU
-. HaSn ~. C"iile nonle "le
.l-." '-'-- "Ea4'. va iau raced {,
---"e5 ea"opeo-eo q ne" "orIo >
'o.1s S-n p.SC0Ie ,'se Il e!Sl US : !'IS III
~" q - 80" 4tiiN 4iii ~ -
-. - ~ ne i'.i'SIeu -. -. lie ilao
90 20 .'e JNuseS 1Aei Ta9
~ y, q -, - "a, 90 y -.. ol1V
ner "a they posed for the cameras was
enc never ~ ne 1or@o('en.
NoH was " !0alr oVef!ooEed oy IN tne
fTase-er'l5 sporting public HIS
psH- ri2-n IN deIeat, was such as
"ot.t ree Won the laurel chaplet
agar E lFlng thoroughbred except
'Ae .A-l son oI Falr Ray. lldalr
sn- ambrose were rendered an acclaim
o1t -rt-e less TociteroUs. Everybody
.,- a. was wortA while, and the
@io0er included the most prominent
rive! owners. freely admitted that Man
War was the horse Of the last quar-
tar century. if not o. all time
Horses nave run the mile in faster
Sine than Man - War covered the dis
,arce Yesterday. hut none ever carried
weigh, hc bore nor finished so full
-i @-3 ~sA~
;-.4 r. . ,'-'I-'I Ios4' Vhe Iion.
',t ICtaI against
py AhoT 9chuttlnger:
- 50 o.5c'ai N re on
~ -. 80 - pca'iIg
-t-N -. ll 30 LOr, eStoOt1SheC on