The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
FAST TRACK FOR
DERBY EXPECTED:
.16 LEFT IN FIELD
Clear Weather Increases
Chances for Brevity,
Heavy Favorite.
$4,000 TO SEE CLASSIC
Vanguard Arrives Early;
Who'll VIM Question
on All Lips.
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

CHI UR CHILL DOWNS,
LOUISVILLE, KY, May g.
Sixteen crack g. year olds
were left in the Kentucky
Derby field a few hours be-
fore post time this afternoon.
Forest Play, Grand Slams team
mate from the Bomar Stable was
scratched at noon.
Two others Dneiper and Seventh
Heaven, a filly, were withdrawn at
scratch time.
Neither had been expected to
start. Dnieper, owned by Mrs. P.
A. 3. Widener, had been scheduled
to run coupled with Joseph A.
Widener's Brevity, the heavy favo-
rite. Seventh Heaven, a $1,000 plat
er owned by w. c. Goodloe, was a
last-minute, unknown entry yester-
day.
Clear weather and a fast track
a break for Brevity-was the out
look at scratch time. The sun pc
gan shining and the track, which
had been sloppy from several days
rain, rapidly was rounding into
shape.
Hope for Dry Weather
The vanguard of the expected
record breaking crowd of $4,000 be-
gan arriving at the rambling old
course early. Twenty-Five persons
had lined up outside the general adj
mission ticket window at the crack
of dawn. Four Derby fans from
st. Louis stayed there through the
night.
Col. Matt VIM, ringmaster of the
Blue Grass classic, was enthusiastic
over the weather. A heavy rain
storm hit West Louisville early this
morning and continued for Is min
utes. But here in Louisville, where
the Downs nestled snugly, only a
few drops fell.
AT $50 a. m, the track was mod
erately fast and the sun shone
through threatening clouds. Two
hours later the weather was clear
and the track fast.
Post-time for the classic was an
nounced at 4:40 p. m.
Largest Crowd Expected
The throng-the largest ever to
attend the Derpy-came from every
state of the Union and every sta
ton of life, and came by every
conceivable means of tranSporta-
ton. Excursion trains, fleets of
buses, airplanes, automobiles and
horses brought constantly swelling
rivers of people into a city where
hotels and rooming houses were sold
out days ago.
Every unit of the crowd entered
the city, started toward the track,
and e6died through the grand stand
and paddock with one question
dominating everything:
Who'll win it?"
The answers were as varied as
the question was nonotonous.
Getting away from the hysteria
Of the mob which was here to have
good time and spend something
like $10,000,000, the race narrowed
down to six horses.
Brevity Loses Support
They were Brevity, Bold Venture.
Grand Slam, The Fighter, Gran
vile and Col E. r. Bradleys entry
of Bien Joli and Banister-nobody
can split them, not even Col. E. r.
Bradley himself, who's won four
Derbies.
Breyity had lost support in the
last "a hours. He no longer was the
horse that couldn't be beaten, but
the horse which may be beaten
not by one, but by several. His last
workout was the worst Derby fav-
orite ever has had on the eve CT
the race.
He still was the favorite and was
expected to carry most Of the
money today, probably going to the
post at anywhere from even money
to 9-5, according to the track condi-
tons. But the smart horsemen
aren't near as solid for him as they
were 48 hours ago.
CHS (WFBM will carry an ex-
elusive broadcast of the running Of
the sixty-second Kentucky Derby at
Ais this afternoon. At the micro
phone will be Bryan Field, Bob
Trout and Hugh Conrad, the same
men who described the event for
CHS listeners last year. The broad
cast will last until 5, and will in
clude description, prior to the