Evening star., 1923-10-20
Zev and Papyrus More Calm
Than Frenzied Throng Be-
fore Barrier Lifts.
LAST-MINUTE RULING
ELIMINATES MY OWN
Muddy Track, Gray Skies, Fore
cast-Both Horses Ready for
Contest.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 20.-Two
hemispheres were awaiting today the
shout from one hundred thousand
throats that would be echoed around
the earth-''They're off,"
The day dawned brisk and clear at
Belmont Park, where Zev and Papy-
rus will run at pm. The track was
slow as the result of several days
rain. which did not subside until late
last night The forecast was cooler
and cloudy.
Zev and Papyrus are ready.
The picture is of a vast crowd, tense
and shouting, mostly grouped in a
big mass, but scattered all along the
fringe of a huge oval; a bell rings
and then two prancing horses of blue
blood and high spirits. and atop them
two diminutive figures, one flashing
royal purple and primrose. the other
in soft green bordered in white.
A few nervous minutes as they
draw up at the post, and rear; then
flash as the barrier is sprung and
man and beast shoot out for the en-
viable lead and the coveted rail; the
dt the the udSn uON II
the back stretch, the contest as the
last curve is rounded and the deaf
ening roar as they come down the
stretch to home.
It's Come on, Stew" and Come on.
Earlw and today the glory OF two
nations is riding with them. Eighty
thousand dollars and a gold cup to
the winner; twenty thousand to the
loser.
HOrseS ObIfyfous
Before last nights dripping, star
less sky faded into q dull gray and
morning came. two horses slept un-
disturbed, oblivious that for days mil
lions had been watching their every
move.
Zev, Americas horse. and Papyrus,
Great Britain's animal, no doubt
haven't been aware of all this. but
they will be at o'clock this after
noon when they are led from the
paddock and have their sensitive dis
positions touched by demonstration
that no race track ever before had
heard or seen.
Both horses were pronounced ready
last night by their trainers, Samuel
C. Hildreth, regarded by some as the
dean of the active corps of American
experts on horsehesh, and Basil Jar
Wis, the pleasant-toned young Eng
liShman.
Both the derby winners of the lands
to which allegiance was given them,
both the highest class on four feet
that either nation could muster, are
in form. Jarvis has said that Papy-
rus hasn't reached the best condition
he has been in England, and every
one knows that Zev has been both
cred by a skin eruption that nearly
cost him his chance.
On their records and on their form
the experts are about agreed that
neither is the greatest horse yet de-
veloped. They say that zev isn't in
the class of Roamer and EXtermina-
tor or Man-o'-War of the later days
on this side. and that there is more
than one three-year-oId in Great
Britain that would have represented
John Bull better,
Going to BE Muddy.
Those views will be disputed this
afternoon by the colts themselves.
The going will be muddy and hard,
some-it's a mile and a half-and the
excitement will be cruel and over
balancing. Papyrus has come a long
way, over a troublesome sea, and has
set foot on hard gravel when his feet
heretofore have known only the
yeIvety softness of green grass.
So those who wagered fortunes on
them believe them to be so closely
matched this morning that bets were
laid at even, or at light odds one way
or the other.
Comforting them, coaching them,
pushing them. urging them, refining
them will be two of the best jockeys
that's undisputed-of all time. On
the invader will be Steve Donoghue,
for nine years the premier rider of
Europe; five times in the saddle of
Derby winner On Zev will be Earl
Sande, the lad who had the leg up
when Zev came over the mark at
Churchill Downs and in his other
great victories, the acknowledged
peerless boy of the American crop.
Three thousand miles away, at the
end of a cable, will be Ben Irish. the
small land owner, who dabbled in
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