Evening star., 1953-04-14

To do it up brown Mr. MacPhal turned out for the
Yankees victory dinner that night and punched of his
old friends an employee in the the room
All in all, it quite day, winning world baseball cham
ponhip selling out for 81 million and gaining technical
decision in fist fight in selected with superb taste
TO RETURN TO LAST SATURDAY, Mr.. MacPhail had
played host his Bowie park formidable group
people who sufficiently interested in improving the
breed to wager upward of SIS million. The nominal head
liner the winner of the $4,000 Chesapeake Stakes
out to be Royal Bay But the Yankees couldn't
steal the show from MacPha day they winning
the top baseball honor what chance had horse?
The former president of the Yankees and the present
president of Bowie to get himself involved with
trooper hed off Hyattsve pond and landed
smack dab the front Royal Bay Gem had to settle
for the sports pages.
such corkng good performance by Eugene Con-
stann, jrS colt that sharp drop in the odds against
Royal Bay Gems winning the Kentucky Derby next month
might have expected. Instead the black of Bay
II-Bayadere fell only from to to to l, according
to the newest future book figures from Aqua Caente Mexico
COULD BE, HOWEVER, THAT Pricemaker Walter Marty
engrosSed with accounts of the MacPha melee that
he overlooked Royal Bay triumph
Certainly the descendant of the great English sire
line of Hampton ran himself real race over the mie-and
one-sxteenth.
Only the unforeseen likely to prevent vanderbts
unbeaen gray colt Native Dancer going
vile the solid favoe Which is it should be. Native
Dancer has gone 9for9 He's proved he do anything
except carry his speed mile and quarter. If there's
any question connected with the Vanderbilt that's it.
the other hand there's strong evidence that Royal
Bay Gem not only route but prefers it. The Con-
stantin colt apparently is rugged sort Twentytw times
he went to the post 2-year-old and little than
month after reaching the ripe of Royal Bay Gem
back action Haleah There horsemen who say,
Hampton line from here to the Rocky Noun
tans."
QUITE A STORE is SET by the Hampton line it
the Kentucky Derby. Three of the blood
at Louisville meaning PenSive Johnstown and Ponder plus
others traced through the pedgeeS of HamponS daughters
Royal Bay Gem might well have the 100000 Famingo
which finished to Straight Face if there had
been another eighth pole to pass.
This not to argue that Royal Bay Gem should be IA
vored Native Dancer Not at this time at least But
the colt is not to be overlooked and to
beginning to- sound like pretty fair odds What he did at
Bowie last Saturday the reversal of what MacPha did
The horse from behind to win. All that MacPhail
earned hours in the pokey and the prospect of
having his burn while the Maryland Racing Commis-
sion discusses the at its meeting today.
The Chesapeake field a large, awkward and,
obviously Royal Bay Gem had the best of it at the
outset Then he began thread his through horses at
the far and when he hit the of the stretch he
running somewhat faster than striped You might call
it humping good wn like the Yankees in the 1947 World
Series MacPha apparently thought less digni
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