Among The Elite At The Downs, Daily Racing Form, 1929-05-18

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g | AMONG THE ELITE AT THE DOWNS 4 $ Among the prominent boxholders for the Kentucky Derby are a number of national figures in varied channels of human endeavor. The list includes outstanding personages from almost every section of the country and is particularly notable for the great number of the leading patrons of racing having such reservations. A partial list of box-holders follows : Governors Henry H. Horton of Tennessee, Harry G. Leslie of Indiana, Charles W. To-bery of New Hampshire, Plem D. Sampson of Kentucky, John C. Fisher of Pennsylvania and Walter J. Kohler of Wisconsin. Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt of Kentucky, Mayor William M. Harrison of Louisville, Mayor Floyd E. Williams of Gary, Ind. ; Mayor James M. Walker of New York, and Mayor William Bryce of Fort Worth, Texas. Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom of Chicago and Major A. M. Watson of Louisville. . Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt, Mrs. James B. Brown, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. George B. Cox, Mrs. L. G. Kaufman, Mrs. Clarence Le Bus, Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Mrs. Isabel D. Sloane, Mrs. Brent Arnold, Jr., Mrs. Newton Combs, Mrs. C Bruce Head, Mrs. Bernard Seligman and Mrs. Frank K. Espenheim. Miss Elizabeth Daingerfield, Miss Margaret Daingerfield and Miss Roberta McCampbell. J. Graham Brown, J. B. Brown, Henning Chambers, Hugh J. Caperton, Samuel A. Cul-bertson, William Culbertson, R. Baylor Hickman, B. O. Hickman, Lawrence Jones, George J. Long, C G. Middleton, C C Hieatt, G. Y. Hieatt, Robert W. Hunter, Richard H. Mene-fee, Theodore E. Mueller, A. H. Morris, Chester H. Seary, L. H. Armour, R. L. Gerry and M. J. Winn. James T. Clark, J. Matt Chilton, Samuel Riddle, William E. Smith, J. P. Van Winkle, I | T. Q. McGoodwin, A. B. Bensinger, J. N. Camden, L. W. Baldwin, Desha Breckinridge, E. M. Byers, W. F. Klair, Harry Payne Whitney. W. R. Coe, Clarence Dillon, Marshall Field, Charles T. Fisher, A. B. Hancock, Walter M. Jeffords, Frederick Johnson, Breckenridge Long, Silas B. Mason, Edward B. McLean, Stuyvesant Peabody, H. C. Phipps, John J. Raskob, Samuel Ross, Walter J. Salmon, M. L. Schwartz, Jouett Shouse, George Sloane and G. F. Swift. Herbert B. Swope, W. T. Waggoner, Wil-lard Wilson, William Ziegler, Jr., Robert A. Fairbairn, F. Wallis Armstrong, Arthur B. Krock, Polk Laffoon, Albert D. Lasker, Edward J. Lehmann, John E. Madden, Leo J. Marks, John March, J. Cal Milam, J. J. Mur-dock, Harvey Myers, John J. OBrien, H. R. Penny, Joseph Pulitzer, Charles W. Bidwill, John D. Black, Benjamin Block, E. R. Bradley and George H. Bull. Rogers Caldwell, Roy Carruthers, P. T. Chinn, Sheldon Clark, Thomas A. Combs, A. H. Cogdon, J. J. Coughlin, W. W. Darden, Chaffee Earl, Maurice L. Galvin, Sherman Goodpaster, Louis Lee Haggin, Lyman T. Hay, H. P. Headley, William Hendrie, B. B. Jones, Patrick Joyce, T. B. Taggart, W. V. Thraves, W. S. Threlkeld, S. S. Combs, M. N. Gay, F. M. Grabner, H. B. Hanger, Jr., A. E. Hundley, Albert Sabath, W E. Swift, Frank J. Navin, J. W. Parrish, T. J. Pendergast, J. B. Respess, Thomas Scott and John R. Quinn. Admiral Cary T. Grayson of Washington spent Friday at Lexington, where he met Preston M. Burch, who is training Voltear and other horses owned by Admiral Grayson in partnership with Charles T. Fisher, the celebrated automobile body maker of Detroit and New York and owner of the Dixianna Farm.


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