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DERBY DAY AT THE DOWNS Live Gossip and Notes of the Treir.eTidoi:; Cro*.vd, the Horses and Incidents in Connection With the Great Race - — . — . *i LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 19. Governor Sampsons Derby party, composed of governors, congressmen, financiers and notables from numerous other walks of wife, witnessed the Derby running from the club house. Sunday, the entire party will go to Frankfort to be enteitained at the governors mansion and later proceed to foimer Senator Johnson M. Camden Hartland Farm and as many other Blue Grass breeding farms as time permits. Th: Bloomfield Stables Dowagiac, Joliet Stables Rumpelstiltskin and Le Mar Stock Farm Stables Mop Up were withdrawn from the Derby field at 7 oclock this morning. W. T. Waggoner, wealthy oil operator of Texas, was not among the Derby visitors, owing to the pressure of business. His two sons, E. P. and G. L. "Waggoner, his grandson, A. B. Wharton, and their wives, however, were in the vast assemblage. B. B. Jones of Berryville, Va., owner of Bobashela. and who has a half interest in Strolling Player with Adm. Cary T. Grayson of Washington, had as his guests a large party of friends from Oklahoma, Virginia and New York. Jockeys C. Kummer and F. Weiner, who had Derby mounts, arrived from New York Friday night and were early arrivals this morning at the Downs. Edward Romfh, former mayor of Miami, Fla., and at present president of the First National Bank of that city, was on hand for the big race. Mr. Romfh is an ardent admirer of the great sport. Frank J. Bruen, manager of the Arlington Park track, was here with the party of Maj. Frederic McLaughlin, president of the American National Jockey Club, Inc., which operates that Chicago course. The Blue Grass breeding section had strong representation with very few absentees from among the long list of Kentuckians engaged in the raising of prospective Derby winners. A. B. Hancock, Thomas Piatt, John D. Carr, Sewell S. Coombs, A. B. Gallagher, George Marks, owner of Misstep ; A. E. Hundley and Thomas B. Scott were a few of them. N. T. Russell, president of the Cast Iron Pipe Company, and E. C. Fuller, both of New York, were Derby Day guests of George J. Long of this city. Dr. J. M. Kaiser, who is associated with various tracks in the Chicago district, was a Derby visitor. Prepared for any emergency, nine trained nurses were on duty at the two track hospitals throughout the day. Bill Walker, veteran Negro and former jockey, who rode Bob Wooley in the first Kentucky Derby and Baden Baden to victory in the colors of D. S.vigert in 1877, was ameng the few in todays throng that has seen every running of the classic. Trainers It. G. Bedwell and C. Utz, and jockeys P. Walls, D. McAuIiffe and Alfred Johnson, all engaged in saddling and riding Derby starters, were licensed early this aft-rnoon. The Chicago Athletic Association had a considerable section of the grandstand mez-zinine and the large party had no trouble ir seeing the race from start to finish. The Racquet Club party of Philadelphia, headed by D. Bell, coach of the University ot Pennsylvania, came in its private car. It marked the tenth consecutive year that the Quaker City organization has had strong representation at the Derby. Members of the party included Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Warfield and others. C. T. Bradley, banker, coal operator and financier of Cleveland, included in his party John Sherwin of the Cleveland Union Trust Company and John Hoyle, capitalist. They came aboard Mr. Bradleys special car. News ~of the victory of H. P. Whitneys Victorian in the Withers Stakes at Belmont Park reached the course while the horses were at the post for the second race. It was a popular score with the visiting New Yorkers, and many expressed the opinion that had it been elected to send him after the Kentucky Derby, that he would probably have won here, duplicating the Preakness and Derby victories of Sir Barton in 1919. The batteries of cameramen, the largest ever to "shoot" a running of race and its attendant highlights, included the Pathe News reel pair, Tom Hogan and Harry W. Smith, first photographers to film the Bremen after its historic flight across the Atlantic. In his feverish endeavor to improve the track as much as possible, track superintendent Tom Young set a precedent when he ordered a corps of thirty men to sponge the course. Each man was given a large sponge and bucket to work on the inner circle of the track during the early morning training period. They were protected from the horses training by the "dogs" which Young had up throughout the night and morning. E. L. Patrick, Indianapolis manufacturer, headed a large Derby party from the Hoosier metropolis. Jockey J. Heupel, who was unseated from Eminence at the start of the second race, escaped with a few bruises. Martie Flynn of Washington, for whom one of the Derby candidates is named, was an arrival today.
