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USUAL COLORFUL SETTING « Derby Day Crowd as Big and Important as the Race Itself. ♦ Representative Gathering of National Celebrities Embracing All Walks of Life Among the Immense Throng. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 6.— The Derby crowd — as big and important as the race it* self — changes but little from year to year. Today, as in other years since the Derby has been one of the very outstanding sporting events of annual occurrence and the biggest thing in racing it brought or attracted from all points of the compass and from all classes. Every section of the United States: many parts of the Dominion of Canada and Mexico and other countries were represented. A comparative sprinkling of Europeans added more international color. High ranking officials from Washington; political leaders from coast to coast and border to border; governors of seven states; mayors of many large cities; giants of the financial world; society matrons; manufacturers, actors, actresses, radio luminaries, writers and nationally prominent and famous folk from many other fields were in the crowd. James Roosevelt, the presidents eldest son was an early arrival. Mr. Roosevelt flew from Boston in the army amphibian, "The Massachusetts," with Harry H. Woodring, assistant secretary of war, who joined the presidents son at Washington. It was Mr. Roosevelts first visit to Churchill Downs. The governors of six startes and Secretary Woodring were among the box party guests of Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky and Mrs. Laffoon. The Laffoons entertained at a luncheon at the Downs Clubhouse at noon and guests included Mr. Woodring and his party of six. from Washington; Governor Continued on ticenty-third page. USUAL COLORFUL SETTING j Continued from first page. George White of Ohio, Governor Paul V. ■ McNutt and Mrs. McNutt of Indiana, Gov- ernor H. G. Kump and Mrs. Kump of West , Virginia, Governor Guy Park and Mrs. Park | of Missouri, Governor Henry Horner of Illi- j nois, Governor Hill C. Allister and Mrs. Allister of Tennessee, Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt 1 Grammer of Buffalo, Mr. and Mrs. Charles , Jennings of Newcastle, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ruby of Madisonville, Ky., and Mr. and Mrs. Smith Dulin of Danville, Ky. H. H. Holeman, secretary to Governor Laffoon and Mrs. Holeman entertained at a dinner at the Pendennis Club following the racing. Guests included others in the governors Derby party. Leading turf patrons, breeders and heads of various turf bodies and tracks came from all parts of the country for the big event. They included Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Joseph E. Wid-ener, Stuyvesant Peabody, John C. Schank, Col. E. R. Bradley, Walter R. Coe, J. M. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Whitney, Arthur B. Hancock, Johnson N. Camden, Maurice L. Galvin, Mrs. Ida Dodge Sloane, C. B. Shaffer, Charles T. Fisher, Mrs. R. M. Eastman, Samuel D. Riddle, Patrick A. Nash, Richard J. Nash, Thomas E. Nash, John E. Hughes, Polk Laffoon, J. H. Louchheim, J. W. Parrish, Lee Rosenberg, W. E. Smith, Paul Waggoner, Guy Waggoner, William Ziegler, Jr., Henning Chambers, Roy Car-ruthers, Otto H. Lehmann. I Samuel A. Culbertson, George H. Bull, Charles W. Bidwell, Pat Joyce, Wood F. Ax-ton, Thomas Taggart, Thomas J. Pendergast, Theo. Mueller, Frazer Le Bus, Clarence Le Bus, Frederick A. Griffith, Arnold Hanger, M. L. Schwartz, A. C. Schwartz, Edward Madden, S. S. Combs, A. H. Cosden, W. E. Simms, H. M. Woolf, B. B. Jones, D. D. Canfield, H. P. Headley, Major T. McDowell, George Collins. Albert Sabath, E. A. Igle-heart, J. C. Milam, Major L. A. Beard, J. G. Lang, R. B. Hickman. Sam H. Stone, Thomas Piatt, and many others. Chicago and Cincinnati, two of the leading race centers, again vied for the honor of having the largest visiting representation. A number of special trains brought the majority of the Chicago visitors, and while specials also were run from Cincinnati, the two-hour motor trip from that Ohio city was preferred by several hundred. Lexington, New York, St. Louis, Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Nashville, New Orleans, Memphis and Atlanta were well represented and from the Blue Grass belt, where Derby winners are bred and raised scores rolled in. Commercial and private planes were used by a number of parties and individuals. Almost a score of aircraft being escorted to the field. Arrivals by plane included Congressman John Young Brown of Kentucky and party. They came from Washington. J. M. Simpson, Muncie, vice-president of the Warner Gear Company, and Charles Officer, vice-president of the Three D-in-One Flying Service, Kansas City, came in private planes. Phillip S. Harvey, Philco Radio executive; T. J. Dowling, executive of the World Telegram, came by air from Philadelphia and New York. Louis A. Johnson, national commander and Frank Samuels, national adjutant of the American Legion, were among some twelve or fifteen officers of the Legion present. They motored from Indianapolis. Among the larger clubhouse luncheon parties were those of Governor Laffoon, thirty; Mrs. Sam Connor and Lieut-Governor A. B. Chandler, thirty-five; Col. E. R. Bradley, twenty; W. H. Veeneman, thirty; Paul H. Brown, twenty; C. F. William, twelve; W. S. Campbell, eight; Stuyvesant Peabody, twelve; Patrick Joyce, eight; J. M. Austin, eight; M. W. Walsh, eight; Sam [ Stone, ten; H. M. Woolf, eight; A. B. Han cock, eight; J. K Webber, nine; Daniel E. OSullivan, ten; John C. Schank, eight; Mrs. E. P. Humphreys, eight; L. E. Block, six; L. E. Bond, six; William Klair, eight; W. R. Coe, eight; Mrs. R. M. Eastman, eight, and others. The sale of mutuel tickets on the Derby began at 10:30 a. m., when fourteen sellers in the main ring and ten in the clubhouse opened for business. Shortly before noon all ticket windows, ninety-one in the main enclosure and forty-nine in the clubhouse, opened. J. R. Allison, Illinois enthusiast, made the first Derby wager, placing 0 on the Catawba Farm Stable entry of Mr. Khayyam and Good Advice. As has been the order for years, the crowd that roared approval as the Derby field matched, heart, muscle and speed was as representative and cosmopolitan as any in the history of this race of races. Captains of industry, high federal executives, gover-► nors, a son of the president of the United , States, mayors of many cities, barristers, political leaders; many of the great of the stage and screen literary lights and down through the levels to the "man in the street," rubbed shoulders in the various enclosures and center field. | James E. Farley, postmaster general, and guest of honor, presented the valuable Churchill Downs gold trophy to the owner of the classic winner. In making the pre-sentation, he paid great tribute to the horse B and the good fortune of the owner. Mr. B Farleys remarks were broadcast over the public address system and carried to far corners over a number of radio hook-ups. While the day broke clear, the sun lost out in a stubborn battle and by nine oclock skies were heavily overcast. A number of fans were waiting outside when the gates were opened at seven oclock and approximately 10,000 were on the ground by eleven. From that time until after the racing was inaugurated, eager, anxious devotees thronged every entrance. They came by almost every vehicle of transportation, street cars and automobiles bringing, all but the several thousands who walked from the down town terminals, while automobiles, railroads, boats and planes brought the sportive gathering from near and distant points to this sports capital of the day. Fashionably gowned women and swankily dressed men crowded the box and reserved seat sections with thousands more in equally stylish apparel, among those who viewed the running from clubhouses, terraces and the bricked and sodded lawns before the two stands. The many delightful luncheon parties well taxed the spacious clubhouse dining rooms. About one thousand men and boys who scaled th back fence broke in a run across the infield into the general enclosure about noon and other smaller groups followed at intervals right up to Derby time. Heroic efforts on the part of the track crew had much to do with the surprisingly good condition of the racing strip for the big event. Slow for yesterdays racing the track was dampened by showers during the night and early this morning there appeared little chance for any thing better than dull going. Working extra hard and aided by a favorable wind, the track crew wrought steady improvement and good footing prevailed after the first three races, for which the track was slow. Staged under the personal direction of Col. Matt J. Winn, executive head of the Downs, the race was atten *ed by all the enthusiasm, glamour, pomp and good feeling that has come to be such an important part of the world-famous event. "I am greatly pleased," said Colonel Winn, as he looked out upon the crowd shortly after the first race was run. "We are more than satisfied and, while figures are not available this early, I believe we have a larger attendance than last year." *
