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FOR AMERICAN DERBY r • Washington Parks Outstanding Race j to Attract Brilliant Field. ♦ Twenty Grand Among Prospective Contestants — Pittsburgher Again Foremost of Western Candidates ♦ HOMEWOOD, 111., June 6.— Although the yet unsettled question of supremacy among the western three-year-olds suffices in assuring a brilliant and bitterly contested sixth annual renewal of the 0,000 added American Derby at Washington Park on June 20, . the intersectional aspect of the race is certain . to make of secondary importance the possible untangling of the "home" forces in 1 that coveted one mile and one-quarter • fixture. At this time it appears very much as ■ though Mrs. Payne Whitney s Twenty Grand, winner of the Kentucky Derby, will . again invade the West to try for American Derby honors. Mate, A. C. Bostwicks winner of the Preakness Stakes, which finished . in third place in the Kentucky Derby; W. J. , Salmons Ladder, second to Jamestown in the Withers Stakes and unplaced in the 1 Kentucky Derby and possibly one or two 1 more of the leading eastern eligibles may follow the great Derby winner into the Washington Park race. Twenty Grand is a certain participant in the Belmont Stakes to be renewed at one mile and one-half at Belmont Park next Saturday and, barring mishap in that engagement, will not be looking for an excuse to dodge the American Derby. Mate is a positive starter and Mr. Salmon has, according to advices received from New York yesterday, definitely decided that Ladder shall carry his colors in the Washington Park race. With Twenty Grand, trainer James Rowe is expected to ship Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh and, as in the Kentucky Derby, the trio may carry their owners Greentree Stable colors in the contest. When Pittsburgher, Theodore E. Muellers son of In Memoriam and beaten favorite Continued on twenty-aecond page. FOR AMERICAN DERBY Continued from first page. among the western starters in the Kentucky Derby, triumphed in the Jackson Park Purse at Washington Park last Tuesday, he greatly muddled the western three-year-olds championship. In that race he defeated Sunny Lassie, Mrs. William Ziegler, Jr.s brilliant filly; Sweep All, Charles T. Fishers strapping colt, which ran second in the Derby at Churchill Downs, and three other three-year-olds of less prominence. It was a victory that returned Pitts-burgher to the forefront among the westerners of his age and a result that justified doubt as to Sweep Alls ability to consistently hold safe the western three-year-olds found in his wake at the Kentucky Derby finish. The performance of Sunny Lassie, a probable starter in the American Derby, suggested the possibility of one of her sex "figuring prominently in the 0,000 Washington Park race. After Pittsburgher moved up and Sweep All slipped to a lower level with the running of the Jackson Park Purse, subsequent racing at Washington Park during the second week of the meeting brought out other of the western candidates as formidable aspirants for American Derby and western championship honors. In the Hazel Crest Purse decided Friday, Lightning Bolt, Mrs. John Hay Whitneys winner of the Florida Derby; Spanish Play, successful color-bearer of Knebelkamp and Morris in the Louisiana Derby; Gallaher and Combs Oswego and Bernard B. Jones Knights Call won many admirers for the approaching race. Lightning Bolt looked his best in accounting for the race in a thrilling, driving finish with Spanish Play and Oswego, which finished third, and Knights Call performed in a manner that warned of their coming into top form for the American Derby. Fridays efforts were the first under colors i y both Oswego and Knights Call in some time, the former having been forced out of the Kentucky Derby by illness, while injuries received at Agua Caliente prevented preparation of Knights Call for the Churchill Downs fixture. With Pittsburgher, Sweep All, Lightning Bolt, Spanish Play, Oswego and Knights Call at their best, the West may have reasonable hope to test Twenty Grand more than at Louisville and there is no getting away from the fact that, decided under favorable conditions, the coming American Derby may prove the outstanding race of three-year-olds during the current season. If Twenty Grand adds the Belmont Stakes to his string of victories, the importance of the Washington Park race will be enlarged and, notwithstanding his conceding of weight to all but Mate, the crown he may win at Belmont Saturday would be at stake in the American Derby. In the latter stake Twenty Grand and Mate must carry 126 pounds each, while their strongest eastern and western rivals will receive from five to eight pounds each. In addition to named candidates probable American Derby starters also include Mrs. James N. Croftons Up, winner of the Agua Caliente Derby; H. C. Hatchs Boys Howdy; Madden Brothers The Mongol, Conscience and Bosafabo; W. T. Waggoner and Sons Quatra Bras II., Griffin Watkins Insco, William E. Schmidts Hyman; Le Bus Brothers Major Lanphier, William Ziegler, Jr.s Ilium, J. O. Keenes Silver Beauty, also a filly, among others. Like Jamestown, winner of the Withers and Twenty Grands chief rival for the Belmont Stakes, the sterling filly, Cousin Jo, winner of the Kentucky Oaks for Charles Nuckols was not named for the American Derby, yet the entry list for the Washington Park fixture is remarkable in that only two stars are missing from among the 148 eligi-bles. The race, first run at old Washington Park in 1884, had its winners from that year until 1904 in Modesty, Volante, Silver Cloud, C. H. Todd, Emperor of Norfolk, Spokane, Uncle Bob, Strathmeath, Carlsbad, Boundless Rey el Santa Anita, Pink Coat Sidney Lucas, Robert Waddell, Wyeth, The Picket and High Ball. Revived in 1926, it fell to Boot to Boot and in subsequent runnings found victors in Hydromel, Toro, Windy City and Reveille Boy, each running from and including that won by Boot to Boot being staged at the present course of the Washington Park Jockey Club. ,i.N A.
