The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-18
TALKING
IT OVER
by JOE WILLIAMS.

- NV AOAelAs way -~@J Ga
~ look great when they are win
ming. and Twenty Grand certainly
looked great winning that old Der
By out in Looeyville the other day.
one thing that race taught the boys
Is that race boss logic doesn't mean
q thing
Il seemed Logical enough % hope that
Mate could beat Twenty Grand seven days
after he had beaten him IN the Preakness
But q takes mors than race hess logic %
beat boss Ike Twenty Grand. Il takes
2 f,l.ow Ike Frank Hawks In an airplane.
How that whitney colt did come tea--
Ing down the stretch. Old timers rubbed
the.r startled eyes and murmured. Never
raw ANYTHING Ike II IN yahs.' The biz
BAY charger almost carbon copy o.
Reign Count. practically ran over bosses
coming Up the back stretch.
He showed more speed than any Of the
some 500 bosses that have been trying 70
win Dsrbies for the past Afty-seven yesrs.
That time Of 2.0I As for the distance Of
= mile and 2 quarter. setting both new
track and new Derby record. will last for
e couple Of weeks anyway.
Twenty Grand NAV not be the greatest
feature but he was whole lap full Of
boss SATURDAY. They gave him fast
track and plenty Of room at the turns and
home the potatoes.
THEY said in advance the Derby
j was strictly a two-horse race.
but they we're wrong. It was strict
ly a. one-norse race. No other boss
had any business out there on the
track with Twenty Grand The
eleven others merely ran around
with him to keep him company, and
they didn't do q very good job OF
that.
You could tell IS soon as the Greentree
Stable star stepped out on the racing strip
that he was full Of run. Little Charley
Kurtsirger the iockev. had TO rein him IN
70 keep him fror1 breaking out into
lusty gallop before the post parade
started
T. seemed that everybody in the place
had bet on Twenty Grand and this mani
fsstat.oa OF spirit brought spontaneous
ovation from the orowd-a curious sort Of
ovation IL was too. h7stsria mixed with
p~ide Dempsey used to get cheers like
that when he stepped into the ring and
peeled Of his sweater.
The start out Of the stall gate was slow
Twenty Grand was ninth to get away. At
the quarter he had slipped back Of Insco
snd vas tenth. The field wheeled past the
club house toward the hrst turn pretty
well punched Up.
or course there is only one desirable
racing position and that Is out in front
Turning into the back stretch. Twenty
Grand began to move up and at the half
mile post he was sixth Kurtsinger gave
him more. rein and he began to move up
some more BY this time the stands we're
boiling and in one vast chorus the cry
rolled out over the blue grass lawns:
There he goes" No mistake about that.
He was beginning to run on all fours.
At the three quarters he was bang UP
second from the surprising Sweep AL. 1t
was over now. and merely question Of
how great distance he would win by.
eTHERE was plenty of daylight
l. between him and the second
boss and much more between. him
and the third boss, which was
Mate. There might have been
plenty more if KurtSinger had
called on him but it wasn't nee
essary. The rest Of the field had
been run into the ground at the
head of the stretch.
Kurtslnger was seen TO give him the
whip few strides before the wire, but
this was a gesture Of nervous excitement
and happiness. It's a big moment in the
life of a Jockey to boot one Of these Der
BY winners home. and this was Kurt
singers first.
What made It ell the sweeter for him
wss that he was doing 1t in front Of home
folks Kurtsinger is native Rentuckian,
he started riding out there at the Downs
and all his relatives and neighbors were
iammed together in bullying group near
the finishing post in the infeld opposite
the club house. They wanted to be right
down there where they could see little
Charley come bounding home first. and
that's precisely what they saw
sKurtSi1ger'S- round face was split wide
open with en- ear to ear smile when he
galoped back to salute the judges. The
big boss wasn't even taking long breaths.
Young Jimmy Rowe. the Whitney train
er went out on the track to meet the
winning pair. and there was nothing about
his manner to indicate he was, not su-
premelY pleased either. He gave the big
boss a few. caressing pats, which we're
colby ignored
Either Twenty Grand isn't anectionate
OF he prefers that such intimacies be re-
served for the barn.