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ZEV EXPECTED TODAY Rancocas Champion Due at Downs This Afternoon. In Memoriam s Trainer Confident That Wiedemann Colt Will Again Beat Eastern Crack. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov 14. Through a change of plans, Zev, now in the role of challenger for the crown he lost in the Latonia Championship Stakes to In Memoriam, was shipped from Baltimore today and will arrive at the Downs tomorrow to take up his final training for his match with In Memoriam over the mile and a quarter distance. Considerable eagerness is being manifested here in his coming and he will have a large gallery to witness his debarkation and subsequent journey to Churchill Downs, where he and three other stable companions will be quartered in one of the recently built palatial stables. According to advices to Mr. Winn, Mr. Hildreth will also arrive tomorrow and with him will come jockeys Sande and Fator. Mr. Hildreth is not taking chances on being without a rider in case Sande should become incapacitated. Announcement was also made by Mr. Hildreth that owner Sinclair, with a party of friends, would be on hand and requesting that two private boxes be reserved for them. REQUESTS FOR RESERVATIONS. With the near approach of the date set for the decision of the match between the outstanding three-year-olds requests for reservations are pouring in on general manager Matt J. Winn and demand for box space almost parallels that of Derby times. The absence of an increased admission charge for that day is also a source of favorable comment The regular admission charge of .20 will prevail. Despite Zevs clamorers that the mile and and a quarter distance will be greatly to the Sinclair representatives benefit the In Memoriam camp is not perturbed. They only smile when the subject of a shorttr distance is broached. Trainer Gilmore is frankly outspoken that In Memoriam will show to much better advantage at the mile and a quarter route than he did in the mile and three-quarters Latonia Championship distance, in which he triumphed in decisive fashion over Zev. Gilmore was eager that the match be made at a mile and an eighth and tried to persuade owner Wiedemann to race In Memoriam at the original distance designated by Mr. Hildreth in the original challenge. IX FIXE FETTLE. "In Memoriam right now is better than when he raced in the Latonia Championship Stakes," said Mr. Gilmore, "and I feel confident that he will take Zevs measure at any distance." In Memoriam was sent a mile and a quarter this morning under M. Garners guidance in 2:10. No fast work was intended for him and he was under the sharpest kind of restraint for the entire way. Had it been so desired In Memoriam could have shaded the time five seconds easily. Report late this afternoon from Baltimore was that Zev before being loaded with his companions in a private car that will convey him here was worked a mile and a quarter over the muddy Pimlico track with Mad Play and Bracadale serving as pacemakers in 2:13. This preliminary will probably be the last long trial that Zev will have before he goes to the post, though it is only logical that trainer Hildreth will send him short distances to keep him on edge. He will probably be given his final "work prep" Friday. Trainer Roscoe Goose had Wise Counsellor and Worthmore, his pair of Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes candidates, out Wednesday morning, sending both one mile. Wise Counsellor was paced by Worthmore and easily -made the best showing by going the quarter in 23, half in 48, three-quarters in 1:13 and mile in 1:41. The colt was only cantering . in the final eighth. Worthmore was badly outdistanced in the final quarter. His time for the mile was 1:43.
