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DERBY DAY ATCHDRCH1LL DOWNS DOWNSNews News Gossip and Incidents From the Scene of Americas Turf Classic From the far South came Robert R Wood ¬ ruff president of the CocaCola Company of Atlanta Hunt Shipley vice president of the Southern Belle Telephone Company Atlanta L Rice head of the Banning Cotton Mills Banning Ga Dr William Selkin Atlanta J F Fletcher Harbison Walker Refractories R E Fort vice president of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company Nash ¬ ville R Brinkley Snowben vice president of the Bank of Commerce and Trust Company Memphis Tenn Hugh Morrow president of the SchlossSheffield Steel Company Birm ¬ ingham Ala Rogers Caldwell president of the Caldwell Company Nashville Webb W Crawford president of the American Trust and Saving Bank Birmingham George H Day president of the Morris Plan Company Sarasota Fla Howard Cook vice president of the Central Missouri Trust Company Jef ¬ ferson City Mo John Powell and Louis Work prominent Cincinnati business men were guests of L Widrig WidrigFirst First comes Derby week then comes Derby eve and finally there comes Derby night and the celebration that has come to a glori ¬ ous conclusion was never more riotously hilarious than that of 1927 All through the week before the running of the great classic each train brought in its pilgrims to the Mecca of all turfmen in May MayEach Each day saw this crowd well nigh doubled until on the eve of the great race it seemed impossible that there would be room for more It did not seem that a Derby holiday maker could be left in the broad land but as usual there was another charge of others Saturday morning and they were the devotees who had to make it a oneday holiday holidayThen Then there was the vast army of those who motored in for the day to motor out at night likewise the various specials for which the railroad yards were all inadequate to furnish parking spaces spacesAnd And what a night was the Derby night One would imagine that the fiftythird run ¬ ning of the Kentucky Derby was eminently satisfactory to all Louisville went abso ¬ lutely wild with its celebrations of the great event and the cheers that welcomed the win ¬ ner as he valiantly fought his way home through the difficult going seemed to be reechoed along all through the night and to be continued until the Sunday sun rose on a satisfied company companyMayor Mayor Wm Thompson of Chicago and his party were early arrivals and made an ex ¬ tended visit with Col Matt J Winn WinnThe The Edgewater Beach Hotel again was one of the main leaders in the matter of repre ¬ sentation at the Derby The Cuban DeLuxe special train was again impressed by this delegation numbering an even 100 socially prominent people of the north side of Chi ¬ cago The party was in charge of Wm Dewey director generally of the Edgewater Beach and included in the list guests John T Connery member of the Lincoln Field directorate Gen Milton Foreman and Joseph Connery The famous Oriole band was with tne delegation delegationBen Ben Block whose Morvich was returned the winner of the Derby in 1923 was among the visitors He has high hopes of landing the 1928 L cby uith a son of Morvich MorvichC C Bruce Campell extensively identified with the Fairmount Park Jockey Club came over from East St Louis to vitness the Derby and visit with Col Matt T Winn WinnCol Col John P Sullivan who is identified with E R Bradley in the ownership of the New Orleans Fair Grounds accompanied by his brother Frank headed a big delegation from the Crescent City that included Edward Butter Senator Upton and others othersRobert Robert S Eddy Jr general manager of the Jefferson Park track accompanied by Robert Maestri and Placide Friggerio greeted their numerous friends during the afternoon afternoonC C E Brossman who developed the great race mare Imp and who is at present writing interesting turf reminiscenses came from his home in Chillicothe Ohio Mr Brossman has probably witnessed as many Derbys decided as any other visitor at Churchill Downs DownsW W F Wiley general manager of the En ¬ quirer Publishing Co Cincinnati headed a large party from the Queen City CityJohn John Bradley of Colorado made the long eastward journey to pull for a victory of the Idle Hour Stock Farm Stable colors of his brother Col E R Bradley BradleyAmong Among the prominent newspaper writers who covered the Derby for their respec ¬ tive papers were Grantland Rice Damon Runyon Don Maxwell George Daley W J MacBeath John I Day Al Copeland James Corcoran Capt A J Boylan Warren Brown Harry M Williams Lanny Harvey Wood ¬ ruff P Burnaugh French Lane Andrew Griffin John Snodgrass H R Ilsey Davis J Walsh and others othersThomas Thomas D Taggart made his annual trip from his French Lick Springs Hotel and had along a large party of friends friendsFrederick Frederick Byers prominent Pittsburgh sportsman George Collins of Hudson Col ¬ lins oil operators Lexington were among the horsemen who regretted lack of represen tation in the Derby DerbyMajorGencral MajorGencral Hull the judge advocate general of the army and the Hon Breckin ridge Long were visitors from Washington George H Bull secretarytreasurer of the Saratoga Racing Association and member of tlsc New York Exchange was an enthu ¬ siastic spectator spectatorJames James C Brady financeer and whose racing and breeding interests are among the most pretentious in the country added an ¬ other to the fiftythird Derby to the many runnings of the race he has attended attendedW W H Whitehouse Cincinnati jeweler whose Royal lulian carried his colors in the Derby was making his annual Derby visit visitGates Gates Young resident manager of Latonia and Tom Scott general manager of the Ken ttifky Association quit their duties in favor of the Derby DerbyJames James A Bright secretary of the Miami Jockey Club and Luke A Cassidy builder of the Miami course and manager of the big racing plant were among the visitors of the day Lyman T Hay president of the Fairmount Jockey Club was among the many St Louisiana from the Missouri metropolis for the day Mr Hay reports keen interest in the coming Fairmount Park meeting and forsees a revival of the Fairmount Derby that may earn a place among the best races of the year yearFrank Frank J Navin president of the Detroit Baseball Club and extensively interested in the Bloomfield Stable witnessed the Derby from his clubhouse box boxJ J E Madden came from his Hamburg Place farm near Lexington in time to see the renewal and Jefferson Livingston was among the New Yorkers that completed their local stay after viewing the feature featureBernard Bernard Baruch financier and Harry F Sinclair millionaire sportsman and oil op ¬ erator journeyed from New York while H H Cotton capitalist came from his Cali ¬ fornia home to be among the many thou ¬ sands sandsEdward Edward B McLean prominent Cincinnati and Washington publisher was present to see his colors carried in the coveted feature featureWillis Willis Sharpe Kilmer sportsman of Bing hampton N Y and George M Hendrie president of the Windsor Jockey Club were interested spectators spectatorsJames James W Corrigan president McKinney Steel Co and who maintains a stable of horses in training here was among the visitors from Cleveland ClevelandRear Rear Admiral Gary T Grayson of Wash ¬ ington Jouett Shouz former assistant secre ¬ tary of the treasury Carl Laemmle motion picture producer and J J Murdock of the KeithAlbee vaudeville circuit had box reser vations for the day dayThe The Chicago delegation was estimated at more than fifteen thousand the largest that city has ever sent to any sporting event St Louis furnished the next largest representa ¬ tion with Detroit Cincinnati Indianapolis and Pittsburgh not far behind Nashville Memphis New Orleans Chattanooga and Atlanta sent the largest quotas in the his ¬ tory of the race raceA A D Lasker former chairman of the U S Shipping Board Roy D Keene political leader L Florsheim and others were in the party of John D Hertz founder of the Yel ¬ low Cab Co CoJohn John F Barton national adjutant of the American Legion was listed among the dis ¬ tinguished visitors visitorsOther Other prominent Chicagoans present were Thomas M McHale Fred A Nacham P A Nash John J OBrien J C Shank Chas A Segner Walter C Gibbons George W Gould Nicholas M Griffin Judge John W Rooney Chas Sullivan J Will Johnson Edward J Lawler F M Leopold Benjamin W Lord E W Everett W H Jacobs R J Graf R J Collins W M Walker H D Brooks H R Curran John B Drake George E Brennan James E Gorman P H Joyce and others othersRay Ray Samuels New York theatrical pro ¬ moter had a large party of friends as his guests in the clubhouse clubhouseAmong Among the visitors from Cleveland were John F Royal Fred Desberg and Judge Berne BerneJudge Judge Olvany leader of Tammany Hall and Judge Foley surrogate of New York county entertained their large parties in the clubhouse where Bernard Gimbel also of New York City was among those occupy ¬ ing the usual Gimbel reservations reservationsSenator Senator Allie W Young came from his home at Morehead Ky and had as his guests members of his family and many friends friendsCharles Charles Nolte track superintendent at Latonia stopped accepting stablins requests for the coming meeting long enough to get a glimpse of the feature featureLouis Louis C Widrig director of the Cincinnati baseball club headed a large party from Newport Ky KyLieutenant Lieutenant Governor Sterling and Senator Barr of Illinois took in the spectacle spectacleJohn John R Quinn past national commander of the American Legion was listed among the visitors visitorsStuyvesant Stuyvesant Peabody president of the Pea body Coal Co of Chicago and president of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club witnessed the Derby from his clubhouse box Mr Pea body is also head of the Illinois Turf Asso ¬ ciation ciationAmong Among the prominent visitors from Indiana were W P Zimmerman president of the Zimmerman Coal Co Terre Haute and B B Bobbitt head of the Lincoln Finance Co Kokomo KokomoAmong Among the other notables present were Major James Walker of New York Mayor Smith of Detroit United States Senator Curtis of Kansas U S Senator Robert F Wagner of New York Whiteford R Cole president of S L R R Mrs Susan Sherley charming lady of the old school 93 years old who saw the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 and has never missed a Derby since W E Smith president of the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky Mrs A T Hert of Louisville vicechairman of the Republi ¬ can national committee former Senator A O Stanley of Kentucky Dan R Hanna Jr of Cleveland Congressman Wm E Hull of Illinois former U S Senator Wm Lori mer of Illinois John J OBrien president of H M Byllesby Company James Oliver vicepresident Oliver Chilled Plow Works South Bend Ind F B Patterson presi ¬ dent National Cash Register Co Dayton Ohio A D Reynolds of Louisville president of United States Foil Co Judge John W Rooney of Chicago Lee Shank former mayor of Indianapolis Keath Speed manag ¬ ing editor New York Sun Moses Straus managing editor Cincinnati TimesStar Walter C White president White Truck Company of Cleveland Judge La Foon Allen of Louisville C G Arnett president of the InteSouthern Life Insurance Co of Louis ¬ ville Geo MacLeod general manager Buf ¬ falo Erie R R G L Bradley vice president of the Union Trust Co Cleveland Norman W Church president of the Elgin Clock Co Elgin 111 M W Clement Phila ¬ delphia assistant vicepresident of the Pennsylvania R R RFrank Frank J Bruen was another of the notable racing officials present Edwin P Morrow former Governor of Ken ¬ tucky and Mrs Morrow were among the numerous arrivals from Chicago to witness the Derby DerbyFredrico Fredrico Alphonse Perzet former Peruvian ambassador to the United States and dele ¬ gate from Peru to the League of Nations arrived from AVashington and was a club ¬ house visitor Mr Perzet said he had seen the outstanding horse races of France Ger ¬ many Belgium Peru the Argentine and Australia but he considers the Kentucky Derby the greatest of them all allMayor Mayor Charles E Kline was among a large party of devotees from Pittsburgh and J C Hetherington was another prominent arrival from the smoky city cityJoseph Joseph Hergesheimer author of many popu ¬ lar books was another Derby visitor He plans to remain in Kentucky for some time following the Derby for the purpose of gath ¬ ering material for a story storyGov Gov Austin Peay of Tennessee and a party of friends were Friday arrivals Her ¬ bert Pulitzer publisher and Herbert Swope of the New York World G H Bell Col John M Hartfeld Allan Corey and E M Yere all of New York and E G Lawler of Chicago utilized their private coaches in making the Derby trip tripPolk Polk Laffoon chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission was among the visitors from Covington and he had the pleasure of seeing his colors carried to vic ¬ tory by his twoyearold Republic in the Linden Purse PurseRalph Ralph Perkins prominent Cleveland sports ¬ man and polo player had one of the largest clubhouse parties of the day Among the visitors from St Louis were II E Norris vice president of the Mobile Ohio Railroad John Fitzgerald superin ¬ tendent of the St Louis Northern Rail ¬ way J J Hollenbeck general passenger agent of the MissouriPacific Railroad J H Ilickman L G Atleeneau and others
