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LOOK FOR RECORD CROWD 1 j ON KENTUCKY DERBY DAY LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 10. With a seventy per cent increase in hotel and housing reservations over the same time last year and a complete sellout of box and reserved seats at Churchill Downs, prospects for a record attendance at the sixty-first Kentucky Derby at that track here, on Saturday, May 4, are more than bright. Downs officials believe that only the worst possible break in weather can save the present record three weeks from Saturday. The increase in requests for housing acommodations was announced today by E. T. Bierbaum, manager of the Derby Festival Housing Bureau. Letters of inquiry have been received from nearly every state and Canada, Bierbaum said, with the greater number coming from New York, New Jersey, . Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Canada. Particularly encouraging is the large number of reservations for Derby Festival week that have been received by the French Lick Springs Hotel, French Lick Springs, Ind., Bierbaum said. French Lick visitors are expected to motor here dafly during the week of the festival.
