Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-11
%7,3OO WILL co
TODERbY WINNER
$4,000 a Minute viii Be Paid
Owner Of Victor in Big
Louisville Race
10000 CROWD EXPECTED

: Louisville. Ky. May li.-More than
500 600 minute will I've paid to the
owner of tho winning horse in the Ken
lucky derby here next Saturday for
, tho two minutes. more or less. the horse
Is in action. 'rhc gross value 0f tho
stake II teu horses face the barrier
purse Of $50 900 offered by the club,
fees from ninety two nominees at S25
each and $500 each from ten starters.
Tho winner takes il all except $4,000
TO the owner of tho second horse. $4,000
: to the third and $1,000 10 the fourth,
leaving S4I 800 in prize money for the
Thoroughbred which nosca out the field.
While these tidy sums go to the per
sons directly interested in racing "a nm
+ institution. II is small part Of that
which II will cost the public to witness
what KcntuckanS invariably term the
/ racing classic.
Preparations have boon made 70
/ handle 10000 spectators whose tickets
ot admission alone will cost them S3
each exclusive Of war tax. This takes
into no account tho amounts paid for
! railroad fare. for 10000 visitors who
are expected to come in over the Louis =
J Vile and Nashville Railroad alone. and
other hundreds who are due on seven
. special trains from Chicago and New
York, and il is exclusive Of bills al
hotels. all Of which report no space left.
Rooming Bureau
SO great has hncn rho demand for
accommodations that rooming bi E
rnnu has been established with the over :
how being cared for in dwelling houses.
Sracc in The three leading hotels has
ipn Ia fn, hn
weeks. except for the indefinite promise
uf 4 hall cot.
Twenty two private cars will come
over the lines of the Pennsylvania Rail &.
road it was announced today. They
will be parked at Union Station and
are expected to provide accommodations
for considerable colony which will in =
.lude. reports today said. !. J.. Re-
plogle, millionaire steel operator. New
York Frank j. Navin. owner Of the
Detroit Baseball Club: breckenridge
Jones, banker: ST. Louis; j. s. Cos.
len. and Raj Parr. of New York. and
II. +. Sinclair the oil man.
Norwich took light workout this
morning. just a gallop around 10 limbe,
Up, and then retired to his closely
guarded quarters. Tomorrow he vii
get q stiff workout at perhaps a halt
lcrhy distance, and perhaps the wreath
,f roses and all il means. At least tina,
a what his proud owner. benjamin
Block. who has becu on hand since the
arrival of the unbeaten colt, believe.
;herc IAN be no doubt about.
Goes Distance
4 steady stream of visitors paic
homage to Norwich today while seycra
hundred persons slipped out 10 Churchill
Downs before half the towu was fully
awake TO see the great colt take The
derby distance in > :OS | y. II bare 1--WE
seconds less than Trainer Fred Burlev
told the boy 10 take him.
Busy American went the derby mill
and quarter just one second unde
the Norwich time. He did not seem Il
~ affected with soreness. but later /
developed that he had not Jared 80 well
Despite the claims and counter claim
FOR the eight or ten prospective entrie.
ror the derby. Norwich will face tn
carrier an easy favorite, according It
hose who are keeping a direct line ol
The money end of the race. His condi
ion at The end of the derby trial yestcr
lay made Fred Bur!ew show more en-
thusiasm ~ he has shown since h
zane to Lo.'-tille, and that counts 70
something.