The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30
Papyrus Is Giuen More Attention
 Than nAnyAhlete
By WEsTBROoK PEGLER (Leased Wire to The AEe-HeraId)

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s-A hay-burn- ing, ear-twiddling horse, apparently built on the old standard lines of horse construction, came into New York Friday evening aboard the steamship Aquitania to face with all possible fortitude the fussy ministra- tions of numerous old women in trousers who will try to do every thing short of breathing his air for him until the night of October 20.
 Not even Georges Carpenter was pampered or babled with more cum bersome solicitude on reaching this country than was Papyrus. winner of the British Derby and champion of the three -year-old class on the Brl- tish turf.
 As the party from ashore went up the side of the Aquftanta lugging cameras to shoot his picture or hold ing pencils at the ready to take down his story in the most trivial detail, little close-cropped noodles could be seen showed through the port-holes of the steerage quarters gazing at the Humpy oil-tanks which mark the shoreline of America on the Jersey side.
 Speaking for Papyrus. who was
 having his evening massage In tho pneumatic walled suite that was built on a lower deck in the stern portion of the Aquitania, Basil Jarvis, his trainer. a man with a roast beef complexion, began by annihilating the most picturesque of all the advance reports concerning the horse
 Papyrus is not mixed-ale athlete, as recent cables gave the United States to believe. but tee-total horse who could swim an ocean of Lager and never touch the stuff. MT. Jarvis therefore was not interested in the reports that beer was unobtainable in America.
 T really don't know how such a report got started" Mir. Jarvis said, ''but I suppose 1t was Just one of your newspaper stunts, as you call them, Ha-Ha. l can assure you there's not a word-or should l say not a drop-of truth in it. 'Pn my word"
 Papyrus had felt a trifle Queer not to say seasick on the first two days of the voyage. His temperature was taken every now and again and his surgeon, Dr. V. Pride-Jones, who was standing by the padded cell in an alert manner during the trip up the harbor, is believed to have had a clinical chart concealed on his per son at the time it was reported that Papyrus was weighed and that his, pulse was taken at regular intervals, also.
 Little Stanislaus Coughdrop, age [, crossing in the steerage, was so sick ne thought ne ule anu was uio@P- pointed every moment that he didn't but all anybody took from his was shilling for a stomach sedative that didn't go any good because it had no sedative effect upon the sea. Let alone, without fidgety stable boys to rub him down every time he worked up a big father pacing the was about the size of a 24-foot ring Papyrus might have been fairly democratic. He looked as though with enough practise he might earn an honest days oats between the shafts of a family carry-all He has a deep lines are the ideal that racing mes always have in mind in making com parisons. But after he had gone through the exertion of poking his face out the upper half of the door to be photographed. Tom Saw, his and flannels and squeezed through the door to wipe him down again.
 What's his temper?" Jarvis was asked about this time.
 "Oh, best in the world" Mir. Jarvis said, as Papyrus rattled his off-hind cleat 2 aAlinst the patient shinbone of Tom mN5haw in a peevish gesture. wis.
 Would Mir. Jarvis be so good as to lead Papyrus out onto the deck so that the 25 photographers could pop off few flash bombs?
 At this request, c. P. Fitzgeeralds; America. seemed like to fall dead where he stood. Take him out! Take him out here, on this smooth deck? Why man, how you talk, how you do talk. Why you couldn't get that horse out here for s5,000," MT Fitzgerald exclaimed. "He might fall"
 Little stanislaus Coughdrop Of Poland, playing tag around the ventilators, took a leaping flop on the seat of his pants at this moment but got up and went on playing tag around the ventilator.
 owing to a stupid error by some one, the Aquitania was brought into the pier with her starboard side against the dock As Papyrus' suite is on the port side, he will have to be brought through one of the pas sengers' public rooms Saturday morning to reach his special, S0-foot the descent to the special padded limousine in which he will be trans ported to the Cosden stables at Belmont Park. Papyrus simply must be exposed to the risk of walking the width of the vessel on an ordi- wis, Fitzgerald and other faithful at tendants are able to pick him up in their arms and carry him.
 On October 20 PRpyrus will race an American horse. either Harry Sim clair's Zev, or Admiral Cary Gray sons My Own. for the internationai three-y year-old championship. In about 10 days his land legs will be under him again and Ted Banham, his workout jockey. will break him