Evening star., 1939-05-24
Blue Peter Defeats
Fox Cub al EPSON;
HeIiopoIis Third
Horses Drown in Sweeps
By Two Woshinetonions
Not in Money
BY the Associated Press.

EPSON, England, May 24.-Blue
Peter, Lord Rosebery's 7-to-2 ia
vorite, burst from the melee of 27
3-year-olds at Tattenham Corner
and dashed down the home stretch
to win the 155th Derby by four
lengths today.
Edward Esmonds Fox Cub, also
we'll backed at 100 TO 6, was secoud
and Lord Derby's Heliopolis, one of
the choices at 100 to 8, third as Will
liam WoodWard's Hypnotist, leading
American-owned horse in the field
wound up seventh after challenging
the leaders midway of the IL mile
journey. Gulford II, owned by Rall h
Beaver OF Norristown, Pa, also fin
ished in the ruck.
While close to half-million peo-
pie shrieked his name, the husky
son of Fairway out of Fancy Free
gave the lie to those who had said
he was not slayer. Touched by the
whip 21z furlongs from home, Blue
Peter ran right away from the field.
Heliopolis, early pace setter. faded
In the final drive as Fox Cub came
up to take second money.
Blue Peter was clocked in 2 min
utes 3645 seconds, we'll behind the
stake record of 1925, established
in 1915 when the race was run at
Newmarket.
Only two Americans held tickets
on the winner in the Irish Sweep
stakes, but there were five each OIL
Fox Cub and Heliopolis. Altogether
about 81, ,184, ops sped across the At
lantic on the race. most of it in con-
ISOLATION and residual prizes.
Heavy betting ON the winner was
said to have cost the bookmakers
close to s5,000,0 600.
New Workers. Lucky,
while two horses on which
Irish Sweepstakes tickets were
drawn in Washington failed to
finish in the money, the holders
| Will collect about $1,000 each.
They are: Mrs Mary Swami, 1903
Fifteenth street NV, who had
Larchfield, and Mrs. Edith B.
~oNi oSN AZ NAotilO dNCHuC. OIl~
versity Park, Rhoderick Dhu. In
New York two holders of tickets
on Blue Peter won $4,000 each.
They were: Donegal Girl, 3055
! Decatur avenue. the Bronx. and
Come to Papa" SOB West 1920
street.
Five Americans held tickets on
(rnh ,>1o
winning $4,000 each. They were:
Poor Katz." 995 Bank street,
Waterbury. Conn: Two Friends"
of Riverside Hospital, North
Brothers Laundry, New York
City; please Let Me Win One"
1909 Ellsworth street, Philadel-
| phia; Love and Luck" Redwood
Estates, California, and Villa
Morley, 629 Deming place, Chicago.
Five American ticketholders
on Heliopolis, third place winner,
won SAG 300 each. They we're:
Come to Papa" 60 Madison ave-
nue., Plainfield. N. j.; Try Again."
5000 Eighty-third street. Jackson
Heights, N Y; Battle" 374
! dCIlS SlICCl, DIOOhISil ~ L -
Alvin Davi, jr., 1873 Virginia street,
Vallejo, Calf, and K. A. Hill,
B. P. O. E, Athens, Ga)
100000 See Race.
Under coppery sun, misty blue
skies and mid summer heat, some
400 900 Britons from counts to char
women gathered to see the race.
! The best weather in years and the
largest field since Capt. Cutie won
in 1922 set off EPSON in all its
splendor and squalor. A hundred
yards from where top-hatted noble
men gossipped about the favorite's
| chances, shop girls and delivery
boys from London ate fried fish at 2
cents a throw and shouted about
| the same.
Gypsies Throng Course.
The gypsies, barred from the
| course the last two years, thronged
the outskirts Of the crowd and in
vited country cousins to come in
and have their palms read-and per-
haps their pockets picked. Carousals,
hurdy gurdies, shouting bookies and
the indistinct murmur of the vast
crowd made the place bedlam of
sound.
The royal party arrived shortly
after pm, when a crowd estimated
at a half-million thronged the
Downs. Its thunderous welcome
seemed to express the feeling with
the royal family over the escape of
the Queen Mother from injury in an
| automobile accident yesterday.