New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-13
Nenucky Derby To-day Jov Is hoice; Preaknes - prc
""ey hnry Looms Up Dark Horse in Historic STRUGGLE:
1"ce1ent f'eld to Face Barrier in $50 O0O p;1; r:-
BUSY American, Reported
injured, Said To Be
kentucky's Ace in Hole
By W. 7. Machetl

By w. J. Macbeth
LOUISVILLE, May 12-once unon Z.
'me In the great not so long ayo
Harry Payne Whitney said that Tho
kentucky Derby was by far the great
est spectacle of the American turf
,hoeed' he said, nothing topped it savo
.he English Derby at EPSON Downs
frances Grand Prix and Russ;a,s
ozarovltch had both to hustle to ce+
IN inc money in this annual race for
popularity.
Little did Harry Payne Whitney
mink, with all his millions. h., was
boosting an event your humble SER
want and not himself would witness
from Box BAG tomorrow afternoon
Neither Olympus nor Bunting will carry
'he Elton blue and brown silks so non.
ular and revered during the last ejqht
runnlngs of the historic Kentucky
DERBY. Harry Payne Whitney is not
coming West this year
And Colonel Matt ]. Wynn. ON TO-
celpt OF the telegram of his cancella
ZION. turned over to the Now York
newspaper men the H. P. Whitney box.
Whlch ADULTS the press box, and is the
.nost desirable point Of view a race
70 20, 90 found at this historic track of
churchill Downs. Mr.. Wynn might
have written his own ticket for 1he
whitney box; there are more than five
hundred boxes here, any of which
YOU, would command kings ransom.
Three thousand requests for box res.
ervatlons had to be denied.
A Gathering of Governors
Governor Edward ?. Morrow. of Ken.
tucky. by gosh, is going to entertain q
half dozen other Governors of adjacent
states tomorrow afternoon, bad cess
to EN- all. The slumbers of vour
humble correspondent were disturbed
on several and divers occasions this
morning between 5 and a. nj. Moth
ing but dispossess proceeding was on
the clerks mind. He wished the hand
some appointments for couple of dis
tinguished Southerners who happened
to be Governors of Middle Western
states. Hope they all bet on the Brad
ley entry. Nothing tougher we can
think Of.
Wynn cannot move Belmont Park over
here for this Derby. Words cannot
picture of the anti climax fthe scene.
Thirty thousand transients are here
already for the race Of the spring and
as many more are expected tomorrow.
Twenty-seven special trains, aside
from the many regulars, will be run
from Chicago alone. Detroit, Cleve
land, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chatta-
rooga, Atlanta and other outlying
points will provide their own quotas
of specials, where Pullman accommo
dstions obviate hotel reservations. 1t
is we'll that these devotees of the turf
are bringing hotel accommodation
is taxed to capacity, with all the out
lying districts still to be heard from.
Derby Day to the Kentuckian is
usually associated with nurk and
gloom. 1t has penchant for raining
hard and long on such occasions. There
is an outside chance the laugh may be
on the weather man tomorrow after
noon. The weather at the minute of
writing is nothing to brag about. 1t
is cloudy and threatening still. But
the city has just passed through n
thunderstorm that approximated
young cyclone. This storm, which
affected the track little more than
good sprinkling. was most welcome
after five days of oppressive heat and
humidity.
But the relief was short lived. With
the passing Of the shower it turned
even hotter and more humid, so that
more than one oldtime inhabitant is
stringing along with the weather mans
prediction of rain for tomorrow.
Eleven Horses to Start
Eleven of the country's best three
i i y<,l,%
for the forty-eighth running Of the
hard rain tonight there might be
few scratches. Otherwise practically
every one Of the eleven named will go.
Kentucky racing is not marred
by such wholesale scratching as OBJ
tains in the East. Anybody who de-
clares put will have to do so before
tomorrow morning at $3.50.
e. R. Bradley ,one Of the very most
prominent of Kentucky's turfmen, has
named no less than four to carry his
colors tomorrow. He has the students
of form very much up in the air from
the fact that he insists Busy American,
will go. Busy American was supposed
to have bowed tendon in yesterdays
work. The colt was cantering on the
track to-day. Certain skeptics insist
nothing was wrong with the horse;
thatthe reports were spread with ma
icious purpose to inuence .he future
odds. A strong sentiment. if not ac-
tual play, has developed over night on
the Bradley entry.
If absolutely sound Busy American
might have perhaps a better chance
than any other three-year-old of the
high class cid to take the measure of
Norwich. By Gosh and Bet Mosie are
both we'll regarded.
Banker Brown, most shrewd horse
man believe, is more or less of
mythical entry. Bradley. in naming
four, declares he will start three at
not to be known even
by himself until an hour before scratch
ing time. The weather Of tomorrow
m orning, it would appear. will have the
nal say. Most experts believe Brad
ley's main hope is BY Gosh, which
worked so well at Lexington several
DAYS ago. They cure he IS sendlng
out Busy American on uncertain prop.
ming only to carry on Norwich as fast
a. possible for seven furlongs OF q
mile, where the favorite is expected 70
crack if he does not improve himself
second Man O. War.
Norwich Warm Favorite
Beniamin Blocks Norwich will be