The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-16
Why, There S
Joe MingIeS With CoIorfuI
Derby Crowd at
Louisville.
BY Joe WILLIAMS.

IL There's no sense in wasting
any white paper writing about this
Derby out here today. Everybody
that knows anything knows the race
is In for Mate. Young A. G. Bost-
wick, who owns the colt has the
right dope.
If you can beat a hoss once you
can beat him again" Mate beat
Twenty Grand-the boss he has to
beat today-a week ago. The only
difference involved now is that Mate
is going to win in Kentucky, where
as, he won the last time in Mary
land. So you see, my dear Watson,
the whole thing is geographical.
Nothing more nor less.
And now let's take our annual
stroll through the paddock and see
who's here for the day:
:. There's Jimmy Walker. mayor Of New
secraePn Ssgff oven na the pre 1qGiksy himself
bbo sig 9,g s9d essatiii women That's 9ny
was last. enough TO get down in front"
Not hot but the natives laugned)
There's Tommy Tagart. called the crown
prince OF French Lick neighboring water
resort, where you need not restrict your
inclined: Iaggart owns some HOSES him
self. but has never had Derbey starter.
his DAD was great politician and you
IN those DAYS unless the old man gave
you the word that It was ol1e. or in
words TO that effect.
There's sonny whitney. owner Of
Eauip9ise thorough sportsman VINO isn't
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course there is always a chance that the
cold VIII galiop across the line first.
aTh.eTEe's Mrs; Dolly Gam. consciously
gentleman with her is her husband and
none OF the news reporters know his name,
s. sAt q 6 asSiasa Mt B 0 aa a right to
There's Charley Curtis. ylce-president
o. the United States tall. dark, austere,
distinguished citizen. but just another
person in this thTong OF thousands whose
main. interest is in the fifth race Of the
There's Ray Long double for Cash and
Magazine editors 1 drinknS 9n h the Am drans
Of the day. and no doubt marYelling that
NOBODY. and particularly irwin Cobb. has
derby. a sporting fixture that cries out for
sympathetic interpreter.
There's Max schmeling the German
heavyweight who acquired the world
championship year ago while squirming
IN the resin. an affable, and gracious per-
Derby day. the spectacle of Tunney and
Dempsey astride Man O. War and Old
Rosebud would scarcely get tumble from
There's J. NJ. Reed. David Haruu Of the
small tra Ire who bought butterbeans a
winter for $25, probably the most in
.silgnincant price ever paid for a
has won more than $4,000 for Reed. FRI
GAYS victory in the stake being its seventh
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There's Queenie Smith, one Of Broad
way most glamorouS ladies. trying to
convince the insouciant Bob Garland that
Jockeys; AND very coiorfu lady is Miss S.
,rd There's Gb, Terry p365uggan. two-Euq man
peny epected b b9usa d5d bt and
no more harmless than a fioorwalker in
GimbeIs.
There's steve .Harter. man about town
from mere and there. in his day manager
pulled on the i've gnyrS f bo9 ever e
snack, the best OF the haaVyWeights
There's Earl Sande. dressed Ike a Buddy
Rogers, pacing up and down the press box
IKE a Gagged terrier. year ago Sande
was out her eto ride Gallant Fox. To-
CAV he is out here to do some broadcasting.
ms riding DAYS definitely behind him II
Ike mate" saws Sande. and when he says
;nat ne Is betting on Mate. No other
Jockey In recent years backed his iudg-
ment so often and SO successfully.
There's Barney Dldfeld. taking in his
first Derby In seven years. and still
reminisctng about the old days when he
and Henry Ford started out together as
art track racers with their nakeShift
automobiles.
There's r. Simpson. the Negro Jockey
from Ptmlico. who came down here so the
superstitious George Ellis. Jockey on Mate
could rub his head just before the race
VIDE smiling r. Simpson know the i'm
portance OF his unique position?
There's Colonel E. r. Bradley, one Of
kentucky's foremost citizens, the class
gambler OF American whose clientele in
the winter at Palm Beach Is made up
largely from the social register For the
hrst time in years the Colonel is without
q starting boss in the Derby. In 1921 and
IN 1926 his bosses were one, two