The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-06
PapyruS Center Of Attraction At Belmont Course
By WEsTBRooK PEGLER Leased Wire to The Axe-HernI,

ps came to Belmont park, where Man O War and many other horses born or elected to the royal purple have been l star boarders in their time, the host lers, hayjugglers, trainers and roust- aboCts hanging on the rails around the race track, had no glimmer of an ] idea how much fuss people can make about horse if they let themselves out.
 In his day, Man O War was able ] to curl a facile leather lip and sig 1 nifty disdain for the rabble as people ] Hooked out from town to watch him do his work as they call the training 1 canters. He and Carpenter, who i trained behind the barbed wire nearby Manhasset, with a wild bull i snorting and leaping in the pasture, | and tame one in uniform, snoring | at the wagewag, to keep out the yisi- tors. were somewhat alike. People 1 made them wealthy but they also made them weary and had to be kept in their proper place.
 At the superintendent's office just i inside the gate of Belmont park the horsey individual with the leather i gaiters and the vest like Luis Angelo Firpo's bathrobe, tips off the troop ing visitors that they aren't to eX pect much cordiality from the Eng lishman in charge of Papyrus as i they're keeping him pretty much to himself. There is no racing at Bel mont now and the beautiful wooded 1 park which lies between the main road and the race track is rouged 1 with makeup from natures own vanity case. Ordinarily, except for the stable-hands left there to keep
 horses in training for their winter work, the place would be slightly less frequented than the center of a vel 1 lowjack swamp.
 Since Papyrus came, however, traf- fic has picked up along the road and 1 in that traffic are men with tripods and big black boxes coming to make more photographs of horse already as much photographed as Carpentier. 1 These men are more or less priVi- l legged, of course, for every portrait l of Papyrus that is printed in the 1 papers now will ad value to Papyrous | If and when he beats Zev or My Own | in the international match race on october 20. The others, though, with no special claim to consideration have come to the track half-eXpect- ing to be given the illimitable air and prepared to be grateful for any glimpse of the British horse.
 The man. in the weslit like Firpo's bathrobe Seems to have misjudges Basil Jarvis, who trains Papyrus, and the skinny little fellows from London W The British horse stretched his legs through seven frrlongs Thursday morning with a crowd watching him and no screens to obscure the view as he hammered the loam surface of Belmont track with his form fittin' plates for a short-mile. Papyrus was not really let out at his best pace but for the first time since he landed from the Aquitania last Friday, he went along at a rate a little quicker than eanter, which Ted Banham, his work-boy or stabplejoc described as "a bit of runnin' at 'alf-speed, to blow out is pipes
 In his training workouts, Papyrus has made new attendance records. Drawing a crowd at an admission
 price of nothin- -at-all, with 10 per cent off for cash may be no great feat of showmanship, but the great Man O. War was on view for half of that in his bachelor days. And zev, quartered in the same racing plant, about half mile from where Papy- rus Is now, wasn't drawing flies un- til Papyrus arrived.
 Late in the afternoon, while Jarvis
 was watching the races at Jamaica, a few miles away, Papyrus was un-
 wrapped by Ted Banham and taken for a 20-minute walk on a small cir
 cular track enclosed by a shed, the exercise ring used on rainy days by the Cosden horses, regular inmates
 of the mansion. It had been sprin- king at Belmont during the after noon.
 Papyrus can occupy only one stall at a time, but for this race horse the one stall is only the center of the
 plant. Papyrus lives there; Bar Gold, his work horse, 4-year-old, lives in another one. The thres stable boys and the farrier have a
 cottage within the enclosure which sets the Coden establishment apart from the rest of the scattered city
 of horses and the rations and water which Papyrus consumes-each oat grown with his monogram on the jacket-are kept under guard, having been brought from England.
 Tom Saw, Papyrus' chief manssr- want, said Thursday that the horse was rapidly getting fit for the race of his life. To a layman's eye there was a great change in the British champion since he arrived on the Aquitania after five days of tossing sea. He is brighter quicker, no longer restless and apparently happy to have got a few miles of work out of his legs after his long immure- ment within the air-cushioned walls of the dark box on the Aquitania's after deck.
 Zev, who is likely to be chosen to run against Papyrus, has not yet met the gentleman from England. Zev took a practice run at top speed Thursday for he is nearing the top of his form again, after a layoof due to an injury. But thus far the two celeb
 rlties have not even glimpsed one another.
 Papyrus certainly will not call on
 ZeV, anyway, holding that it is Zevs
 place to trot around and extend him