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Evening star., 1939-04-30
Prices Soar
AS Big Day
Arrives
Col. Winn Is
Man Behind
The Derby

Derby but Jockey Earle Sande used
his powers of oratory.
"Zev was knocked sideways at the
start of the Preakness," he pointed
out. THAT made him sulk. He never
was In the race at any time, that's
true. But he will run as far as
horses are asked to go in this coun.
try. Give him his chance in the
Derby, please
1t costs $500 to start horse In
the Derby, after an initial outlay Of
$25 to name the horse. Sinclair
was no man to worry over a paltry
$500. But he saw his colors lowered
in the Preakness and had no wish
to get another Dose But Sande con-
tinued to argue and plead. Sande
was a good, smart Jockey and II
he thought the horse had a chance
Sinclair was nobody to insist he
didn't.
well, ship him." said Sinclair,
finally.
zev was shipped. He worked out
splendidly when he arrived.
Send him in," instructed Sim
clair.
zev went to the post and won
easily.
The purse for Sinclair was $53,-
600. The betting payoff was $40.40
for 50 win ticket.
Owners Wager.
They say that Sinclair, who was
known to bet 100000 and more
when he thought any of his horses
had chance, did not wager more
than 500 on Zev, the horse he
didn't think could travel a route.
And yet Zev was destined to win
more money for Sinclair in purses
than almost all the other horses
put together.
Now another Derby Is rolling
around. It's an -publicized,
overrated sports spectacle. At the
same time it's one from which you
get bang. The mint juleps are
atrocious limitations but you're in
Kentucky. It's highway robbery,
the way the cab drivers clip a fel.
low, but you've got to get out there
somehow. A week later the Preak-
ness will be run and in June tho
Belmont will roll around and you
know these are truer tests. But
you're in Louisville and the Bite
Grass country and even If it's true
what they say about Maryland and
New York and California becoming
superior you can't laugh off ira.
dition. The hotel prices are out.
rageous but it's an assignment and
you take the average newspaper
sportswriter and ask him his favorite
job land it's 10-to-1 he'll say the
Kentucky Derby.
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ture won it that year, which was
1886. Rosemont and Esposa were
only fair as juveniles the year be-
fore and not pointed for the Derby
in '35. But Rosemont beat that
Derby winner, Omaha, badly in the
Withers few weeks later and then
carried on to win the '37 Santa
Anita Handicap. .Esposa proved to
be one of the greatest mares of all
time.
Equipoise, winter book favorite,
was scratched from the Derby, but
later went on to become greater
than the winner, Twenty Grand,
although both were outstanding
horses. Top Row and Time Supply
were others. Top Row did nothing
as a juvenile and was not con-
sidered for the Derby. Later he was
claimed by A. A. Baroni for a paltry
$2,500 and won the 1896 Santa Anita
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Bv Hilmar Baukhage.

When the contractors nudged
Mai. Gen. George H. Thomas out
of the way recently to start work
on the Thomas Circle underpass
they didn't realize they were TAX
ing their lives in their hands.
It wasn't so much because of the
"Rock of Chichamauguas" reputa-
ton for immobility, for the workmen
unlike the Rebels, moved the rock
right along with the man. But they
couldn't even have accomplished
that much If due notice hadn't been
given that, unlike Humpty-Dumpty
the general would be put right back
again.
And this is the reason: It Is
easier to revise q statute than move
a statue in Washington. Pedestal
roots go deeper than political.
The classical example Of this
touch-me-n mot tradition In regard
to our heroes in stone and bronze
is the attempt Of a reporter-John
Russell Young of The Star-to
switch Gen. Washington and Gen
Jackson. It happened In the Hard
ing administration when the genial
and obliging Col. Sheriff., aide to
the President, was in charge OF
buildings and grounds. Those were
the days before Father 1ckes took
away from Army engineers the
guardianship of Uncle Sans lares
and penates.
Tradition Operates.
Mr.. Young learned from Col
Sheriff. that George Washington
who then sat (as still does
astride his mount on Washington
Circle, had become slightly moth
eaten and had to be taken down
and sent to the cleaner for re-
pairs. Always intent on civic bet
terment whenever there was q
good story in it,, Mr.. Young sug-
gested that this was the moment
to undo q slight to the Father Of
his Country and remove him from
his rather declasse neighborhood tc
the middle Of jackson Park, where
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Statue Pedestal Roots Go
Deep in Washington
Excitement Caused Years Ago
By Andrew Jackson Episode
Is Recalled

he might at least gaze upon the
house he planned but never had
the chance to see completed. This,
Mr.. Young pointed out, would do an
esthetic good turn as well, for it
would mean that Andrew Jackson,
teetering on a horse whose fore
feet, like a good liberals, are firmly
planted in the air with lead in the
tail to keep them there) could re-
tire to a less conspicuous post.
Col. Sheriff. agreed and Mr..
Young launched his scoop.
Then the deluge.
Tennessee Furious.
Poor President Harding, who didn't
know what it was all about, scarcely
had time to emerge from an ava
lanche of angry kilograms from
ardent Jacksonians all over the
country when he learned that the
sovereign State of Tennessee had
not only legislated its fury over the
insult to its illustrious native son,
but also was sending q delegation
to protest in person. It was re-
ported that even the Old Hickory
Marching Club, once a potent organ
ization, had been resuscitated and
was marshalling its ghostly legions
for an attack on the White House.
Only speedy and vigorous denials
saved the presidential scalp-lock.
A similar outburst occurred more
recently when small statue of
Lincoln was ordered removed
from Judiciary Square. This chef
d'oeuvre, the product of local
stonecutter, was considered by some
to be more significant as labor
of love than a work of art and its
base, even larger than the donors
heart, was adjudged out OF propor-
ton to the image. But when word
went out that it was to be moved,
press and public rose in wrath and
the best that could be done was
to reduce the size Of the pedestal.
Washingtonians may not know
much about art, but they know what
they like. It's what they've got,
sic uou tangerei
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was q 4-to-l favorite. Currently
he is being quoted at around to /.
Favorite horse around these parts
is Challedon, a Maryland horse,
owned by w. L. Brann. All through
March and April the townsfolk of
Washington and nearby Maryland
have made pilgrimages to his stall
at the old Benning track to see this
big, Maryland-bred bay son Of
Challenger II-Laura Gal.
Challedon, trained by former
Jockey Lou Shaefer, is one of the
few eligibles that really figures to
go a distance. He can run in any
kind of going, and, according to
workouts, is ready for the Derby.
IF he's within quarter of a
mile of the leaders as they hit the
stretch" exult Marylanders, hell
win going away. He proved he can
run a route and beat the best
there is. He has won on dry tracks
and knows no peer in the mud"
Technician's Record.
OF all the Kentucky Derby ell
gibles which were campaigned in
Florida during the winter, the best
record was compiled by Technician,
owned by Herbert Woolf, whose
Lawrin won the race last year
Technician was a fair sort of juve-
nile last year and seems to be i'm
proving fast. He won the Flamingo
Stakes at Hialeah last winter. One
of the best handlers in the business
Ben Jones, trains him.
Porter's Mite won the classic Bel
mont Futurity last year, thereby
taking on a load Of jinx. No Futur-
ity winner ever has won the Derby
but there always can be first time
His daddy, The Porter, was a great
reuter-, but so far the Mite has yet
to show that he cares to 60 the
distance. But he has trained well
and has plenty of speed.
Johnstown, winner of the Pau
monok Handicap this year al
Jamaica and victorious over Older
horses, is another we'll liked entry
But there is some doubt as tc
whether he can go the distance
too. His daddy, jamestown, could
not. but trainer Jim Fitzsimmons
who handled Gallent Fox, Omaha
and Granville, is high on Johnstowr
and for many players that Is
enough.
AS usual, racing experts are say
ing the field Is not classy. They al
ways say this and then, after 1t is
over, they concede not only the win
ner but'some of the beaten and per-
haps a non-starter or two varying
measures of class. The brutal truth
probably is that nobody knows how
good a horse Is when he is two
year-old and even after the Derby
which is run too early In the year
Case Of Zev.
The case of Zev, winner in 1928
comes to mind in this connection
Zev showed well in the spring o1
1922, winning the Albany Handicap
and the Grand Union at Saratoga
Coming up for the races In 1923, a.
| q 3-year-old, Zev won the 6-furlone
Paumonok Handicap and went tt
the post In the Preakness, which
was run ahead Of the Derby that
year.
Zev finished next to last an6
Owner Harry Sinclair, as well al
Sam Hildreth, the trainer, deter.
mined that the horse essentially
was q sprinter and would not 60 the
route. Zev was pulled out OF the
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it's smart to quaff great quantities
Of mint juleps, which are inexpertly
made of very young bourbon. The
usual rap is 81 drink. After three
or four John doesn't care about the
rap or the youth of the base. He
simply puts his roll on the table and
tells the waiter to help himself.
When and if he finally eats, he gets
clipped again. And if Southern
cooking still exists, you'd never know
1t around Derby time in Louisville.
Nearly everybody feels duty bound
to affect Southern accent. No
matter if you are from the Bronx
or Telegraph Hill, you lapse into a
phoney "yawl' for "you" On every
side, behind and in front of John
lie touts, like Indians in ambush,
waiting to spring forth and whisper
what EX-Jockey Blotz' brother-in-
law is betting on. Taxi drivers want
IS to drive to the track. The way to
get around this is to hire about IL
inches of Ford flivver cushion for
81 and wait for the driver to round
up four more suckers. En- route to
the track with the other strangers
1t is a good idea to place your watch
and wallet into your mouth.
John Public, If he's average,
doesn't see much of the race. When
MY Old Kentucky Home" is played
he's bleary-eyed, not dewy-eyed
When the roar, They're off" goes
up, the crowd surges forward and
practically nobody sees anything,
The race lasts two minutes and a
few stray seconds. It's expensive
Derby Founder.
A bona f1de Kentucky colonel, one
M. Lewis Clark, founded Churchill
Downs and originated the Derby
OF the old school was Col. Clark
He liked his juleps and picnics, and
in the beginning there was some
doubt as to whether the good col
onel wanted to promote a race pat
termed after the famous English
classic or whether he wanted an
excuse for a picnic. The first few
Derbies were singularly like picnics
with basket parties on the grounds
and bottled ones on the hip.
But the Derby technically isn't q
Derby. The English have their Ep-
som Derby and hold the Kentucky
in contempt. In the first place the
real Derby is run over a distance
of a mile and one-half. The Ken
lucky is shortened to mile and
one-quarter. The English bar geld
ings from their Derby. The Ken
lucky does not. In fact, seven geld
ings have won. the event. And isn't
horse racing supposed to improve
the breed?
The Kentucky Derby isn't the
richest horse race in the country
either. It Is a $4,000 added job
The biggest purse was won by Reign
Count in 1928-$55, ,375. The small
est was won by Aristides in 1875
when it was inaugurated. Aristides
collected only $3.50 for his owner
The Santa Anita Handicap in Cali
| fornia is worth twice as much to
| the winner as the Derby and such
other races as the Belmont Futurity
the Preakness, the Santa Anita
Derby, the Widener Challenge Cup
the Massachusetts, Handicap, the
Narragansett Special and the Hol-
lywood Gold Cup all are as rich or
richer than the Derby.
Not Oldest Race.
The Kentucky Derby isn't the old
est horse race in America, either
The Preakness is older by two years,
and the Belmont Is eight years old
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and s213,OOO, not peanuts

Handicap and s213,OOO, not peanuts
or tin.
Time Supply wasn't much of a
horse until his late 3-year -old form,
or as a 4-year-old. Then he won
S144,000 and 18 races. Cavalcade
won that Derby. Another great
horse, Chase Me, a 3-year-old in
1882, was show horse and ladies'
hunter when Burgoo King won the
Derby. Not until he was 4-year-
old the following year did the ILL
starred Chase Me race. And then
he won seven in row and never
was defeated until he broke his leg
and was destroyed. But before
Chase Me came to an untimely
end he beat Mate in the Bryan
and O'Hara Memorial at Bowie
while conceding weight. And Mate
had beaten Twenty Grand, which
Evening star., 1939-04-30
had won the 81 Derby, In the
Preakness. So you figure it out.
Great Gelding.

had won the 81 Derby, in the
Preakness. So you figure it out.
Great Gelding.
Bubbling Over was the 1926 Derby
winner, but Crusader, a fair sort
of juvenile not trained for the event,
wound up as the undisputed cham
pion horse that year. Mike Hall, not
entered in the 1927 Derby, was one
of the greatest geldings on the turf,
but he did not develop until after
his chance in the Kentucky classic
Mike Hall proved to be far
greater horse than Wiskery, winner
of that '27 Derby. When Mikes
career was ended he had won 19
races and $213,o00.
SaraZen, who came of Derby age
in 1924, was another great gelding
Sarazen did not start, but when
he retired he had won 27 races
and $225 100, including a victory
over the great French horse
Epinard, in the. First international
Special run at Belmont Park. Sara
zen ran that mile and one-quarter
in zoos. considered the fastest
race at the distance ever run in
the United States. This is dis
counting Whiskbroom lis disputed
200 in winning the 1918 Suburban
Handicap.
Mr.. Derby.
The man behind the guns at
Louisville is hale, hearty Col. Matt
j. Winn, going on 78. He is Mr.
Derby, this pompous son Of Ken
lucky grocer who started out in life
as a salesman and part-owner OF
a tailoring shop. Col. Winn is the
only man alive who has seen every
running Of the Kentucky Derby
since it originated back in 1875, and
perhaps is the only one who was
present when the first was run.
Col. Winn was turning IL years
when the first Derby was run and
took 1t over in 1902. Before that
Col. M. Lewis Clark. founder OF
the track. was in charge. They
built Churchill Downs in 1874, but
lost money every meeting and, in
1894, they relinquished control to
a group of gambling people, but this
set was no more successful and
finally, Col. Winn took over.
There is a lot of Barnum In Col
Winn. He is the Joe Engel of horse
racing, q booming, blatant tomtom
beater, who could make a comfort
able living selling iceboxes in Alaska
He proved 1t with his Derby. As
far as the real, dyed-in-the-wool
horseman is concerned the Derby is
just another race, but the popular
impression Is that it is the classic
that sends the winner down In
history and enriches thousands OF
lucky players.
This Year.
Best-known horse and most talked
of now is Ell Chico, champion juve-
nile last year, when he was unde-
fated in seven races, including the
Hopeful at Saratoga. But as
3-year-old he lost his debut this
year at Jamaica. Gilded Knight, q
non-Derby eligible, beat Ell Chico
who horsemen say Is not really bred
to 60 Derby distance. Ell Chico mean.
The Kid, and they say he is the
equine equivalent. Many railbirds
says that he is too small and q
doubtful weight packer. But e
Chico, owned by William Ziegler
jr, and trained BY Matt Brady, has
plenty OF speed. and at one time
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er The Derby isn't the truest test,
either. Racing people will tell you
that May is too early in the year
to send 3-year-olds a mile and one
quarter. For a true line on the re-
spective merits of the horses they
prefer to stand or fall by the Bel
mont, which is run at mile and
one-half in June.
Contrary to popular belief, it is
no star studded field that competes
in the Derby. Only two or three
top-notch horses ever seem to run
in any single Derby. The majority of
the horses that make up the field,
after their one great moment, soon
slip back to the cheapest sort of
company, and you don't have to 60
back further than the last 10 years
to acquire evidence to prove the
point. OF those last 10 swinners
there are only 5 which can be
classified as top-notchers. Gallant
Fox, the 1880 winner, definitely
was q frst-class horse. So was
Twenty Grand, the 81 winner: Cav
alcade, "a champ; Omaha, '35, and
War Admiral, who won in 81.
The others-Clyde Van Dusen,
20; Burgoo King, 80; Brokers Tip,
'33; Bold Venture, SO, and Lawrin,
'38, either went wrong shortly after
winning or failed to live up to ex-
pectations. Lawrin, who looked the
part Of fine horse when he raced
to victory a year ago, hasn't been
heard of since shortly after. Only
about 20 of the entire group of
thoroughbreds that have gone post
ward over this period of years were
what might be called first class.
The others were almost complete
failures which either broke down
shortly after their Derby or were
too cheap to compete with the bet
ter grade of runners. Most of them
turned into selling platers.
Beaten Derby Horses.
Some of the better beaten Derby
horses Of modern times have been
such as Blue Larkspur, Gallant
Knight, Mate, Gallant Sir, Ladys-
man, Mr.. Khayyam, Singing Wood,
Roman Soldier, Whopper, Gran
vile, Brevity, Pompoon, Heelf1y,
Burning Star, Menow, Bull Lea and
Dauber. While only some of these,
such as Blue Larkspur, Mate, Roman
Soldier, Granville and Pompoon, can
be called real good horses, the rest
did enough to warrant a fairly high
rating.
The Derby has had more than its
share of mediocre horses, too, over
the same period of 10 years, giving
rise to wonder at what kind of a
race 1t really is. For instance, there
were such cheap hides as Gee Tee,
Breezing Through, Oscillation,
Quasimodo, Merry Pete, Fencing,
Merry Maker, Holl Image, Time
Clock, Isaiah and Adobe Post.
Nor do all Of the great horses
ever run in the Derby. Man O. War
never won it, probably because he
wasn't entered. Neither was Sea-
biscuit. When the Biscuit was a
3-year-old he was, in the parlance
of the prize ring, a bum. He was
used as a sparring partner, or
PAGER for Granville, far better
horse, at that time, than the little
bay.
Last Year.
Lawrin won last year, but the
field did not include the pre-race
favorite, Stagehand, which came up
with a cough and fever q couple
Of days before the race. Aneroid
wasn't In the Derby and Bold Ven-
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Last Year,

Lawrin won last year, but the
field did not include the pre-race
favorite, Stagehand, which came up
with q cough and fever q couple
Of days before the race. Aneroid
wasn't In the Derby and Bold Ven-
Evening star., 1939-05-25
BY the Associated Press.

Iy VIC ASSOClhJeQ freSS.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 25.-
Here is the complete list of survi-
vors and dead in the submarine
disaster off Portsmouth:
Saved in First Trip of Escape Bell.
Lieut.. 81. g. John c. Nichols,
Chicago, gunnery and torpedo off,
Ger.
Harold c. Preble, naval architect
attached to Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Roland Blanchard, Hersey, Mich,
fireman, second class.
William Isaacs, Washington, D. c.,
ships cook, second class.
Theodore Jacobs. Staten Island,
N. Y, signalman, first class.
Gerald McLees, Richmond, Kans.,
electricians mate, third class.
Charles Yuhas. New Salem, Pa,
machinist mate, first class.
Saved in Second Trip.
Judson Thomas Bland, Norfolk,
Va, electricians mate
William David Boulton, Luton,
Iowa, seaman, first class.
Lawrence James Gainor, Honolulu,
chief electricians mate.
Bagilio Galvan, Ibajay Capiz, P. l.,
mess attendant.
Lloyd B. Maness, Greensboro,
N. c., electricians mate.
Francis Murphy, Charlestown,
Mass, quartermaster first class.
Raymond F. O'Hara, Elmira,
N. Y, pharmcist mate.
Warren w. Smith, jr., Laporte,
Tex, signalman second class.
Robert L. Washburn, Greenwich,
Ohio, seaman second class.
Evening star., 1939-05-25
First Disaster Films
On View Here Today

First newsreel pictures of the sub
marine disaster will arrive in Wash
ington by plane this afternoon and
will be flashed on screens of the
Earle, Metropolitan and. Trans-Lux
theaters, managements of those
theaters announced today.
The film, about a 700-foot or g.
minute run, was made by Para
mount Newsreel and includes pic
lures of rescue work above the
sunken Squalus. The theater officials
said the exact time of the film IS
arrival is not known but they had
been informed it would be flown
to Washington Airport in time for
late afternoon or early evening
shows.
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Door
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went to the torpedo room and ex-
changed greetings with Capt.
wilkins Of the Sculpin and then the
buoy line parted. apparently as a
result Of ocean conditions.
THE lives of the men in the after
compartment, in my opinion, were
snuffed out Immediately by the
quantity of incoming water. I knew
at once, from the angle that we
took, that the after compartments
were probably completely flooded.
I'VE first took water after diving
and leveling off at SO feet. We blew
all our ballast tanks at once and the
bow took an up angle of about 80
degrees, and then we dropped to the
bottom and remained at an angle of
about II degrees.
Banned Further Discussion.
Somebody barely mentioned the
men in the after compartment and
I Immediately let it be known that
there was to be no further discussion
of them. There was nothing we
could do for them and there was no
sense in discussing them.
I'VE rationed out our Momsen
lungs and sent up smoke signals
There was a civilian observer
Mr.. Preble Harold G. Preble, naval
architect). in the control room with
me and ne, too, performed 100 per
cent. He was given instructions In
the use of the Momsen lung and re-
sponded readily. '-
There was no gas in the control
room at any time except possibly
the carbon dioxide we created by
our own breathing.
Because of the icy conditions of
the water we decided to use the
lungs only as last resort. If there
had been any leak in the ship or
any other reason why we should
doubt our safety, of course, we would
have used the lung to get the men
out at all costs.
Lloyd B. Maness, an electrician's S
mate, is the man to whom 1 owe
my life and so also do all of the
other men who were in the control
room. Maness, acting speedily and
instinctively, closed the door, shut
Evening star., 1939-05-25

John j. Batick, Portsmouth, N.
H., electricians mate. first class.
Joshua Casey, Grand Ridge, Fla,
fireman, first class.
John A. Chestnut, Groton, Conn.,,
chief machinist mate.
Robert L. Coffey, Fullerton, Calf :,
electricians mate, second class.
Elvin l.. Deal, Copperhill, Tenn,
machinist mate, second class.
Lionel H. Fletcher, San Diego,
Calf, electricians mate, third
class.
Kenneth R. Garrison, Joplin, Mo-,
chief machiniSt mate.
Robert F. Gibbs, Lexington, S. c.,
torpedoman, first class.
John P. Hathaway, San Diego,
Calf, fireman, first class.
Eugene A. Hoffman, Brooklyn,
Mich. machinist mate, first class.
Alexander B. Keegan, Quaker
town, Pa, seaman, first class.
John J. Marino, Marshalltown,
Iowa, seaman, second class.
Huie K. McAfee, East Point, Ga,
electricians mate, second class.
Alfred c. Priester, Rosedale, N
Y. torpedoman, second class.
Frank H. Schultz, st. Louis, ma
chinist mate, first class.
Bascomb S. Scyphers, Bristol, Va,
electricians mate, first class.
Sherman l.. Shirley, Little Rock,
Ark. torpedoman, first class.
Jack J. Strong, Royalton, Mimi,
machinist mate, first class.
John M. Thomala, Royalton,
Mimi, machinist mate, first class.
Robert P. Thompson, Nashville,
Tenn, ships cook, third class.
Marion l.. Ward, Drumright,
Okla, radioman. third class.
Robert r. Weld, Kooskia, Idaho,
fireman, second class.