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FANS CLAMORING FOR PROPOSED 00,000 MATCH . g - la ARLINGTON ENTERS RACE Previous Match Races Were Enthusiastically Supported by Public. Samuel D. Riddle Will Make Special Trip to New York to Confer With Herbert B. Swope. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7 The 00,000 match race between War Admiral and Sea-biscuit, which has been proposed for Bel-, mont Park in the fall by Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the New York Racing Commission, has fired public imagination. Samuel D. Riddle, owner and breeder of War Admiral, telegraphed Swope yesterday that he will make a special trip to New York within a few days to confer with him about the race. Meanwhile telegrams are piling up enthusiastically supporting the race. The race is regarded" as a "natural" by horsemen who have been heard from thus far arid they say also that Belmont Park is the proper place and the fall of the year the natural;.time. Nor has any voice been heard suggesting a change from the proposed distance of one mile and a quarter. LARGEST PURSE. Although the purse, 00,000, is the greatest for which a two-horse race has ever been run, there is no feeling of apprehension that the public will fail to patronize the race in sufficient numbers to make the venture practicable. Belmont Park, on two outstanding days in its history, had approximately 40,000 paid admissions. It is believed that a race between the two champions would bring 50,000 persons to the track and among them would be many who would travel from the Pacific Coast and even Europe to see it. Another reason why popular support is to be counted on with confidence is that two-horse races have grown less and less frequent in recent years and those that have been run have been because other owners withdrew when two top-class horses have stood out. In 1861 the United States was thrown into a state of excitement by negotiations for a match race between Asteroid and Kentucky, the two leading thoroughbreds of that day. Nothing came of the negotiations and public disappointment was as keen as the anticipation had been. SALVATOR AND TENNY. The match between Salvator and Tenny at Sheepshead Bay in 1890 has passed into American turf history as one of the most colorful events ever staged. It was run a week after the Suburban and was for 0,-000 a side. Salvator, ridden by the famous Isaac Murphy, won by a short nose from Tenny, ridden by the equally famous "Snapper" Garrison. Another celebrated match was that between James R. Keenes Domino and Richard Crokers Dobbins, also at Sheepshead in 1893.. The match was also for 0,000 a side and the horses dead-heated. What was in effect a match race was run by Hourless and Omar Khayyam at Laurel in 1917. It was the annual renewal of the McLean Memorial and it drew the greatest crowd ever seen on a Maryland track. Hour-less won by a length. Man o War, as a three-year-old, ran once in a two-horse race against Harry Payne Whitneys John P. Grier at Aqueduct and again against Sir Barton at Windsor, Ont. His race with John P. Grier was officially Continued on twentieth page. FANS CLAMORING FOR PROPOSED 00,000 MATCH Continued from first page J the third running of the Dwyer Stakes, but only the two horses went to the post. They were ridden by Clarence Kummer and Edward Ambrose. Man o War won by two lengths. His race against Sir Barton was virtually a walkover, as Sir Barton was sore and could not put forth an effort. ZEV-PAPYRUS. The Zev-Papyrus race at Belmont Park in 1923 attracted an immense crowd. Papyrus won the English Derby of that year and Zev the Kentucky Derby here. Papyrus, accustomed to English turf and too recently off shipboard to be acclimated, ran a poor race, and Zev won as he chose. Steve Donoghue, the premier English jockey, rode Papyrus, and Zev was ridden by Earl Sande, the American star. When the New York State Racing Commission learned of Arlington Parks efforts to stage the proposed match, the chairman Baid New York was first in the field and that it would be better to be racing in New York in the fall than in the heat of July in Chicago. Zev took part in another match race at Churchill Downs, which causes many arguments when race fans who saw it get together. That was the Zev-In Memoriam match for 00,000 a side with the Downs management adding another 0,000. It took place at the Louisville track on November 17. It was the outcome of a defeat handed Zev, by In Memoriam, in the Latonia Championship of 1923, In Memoriam winning by a nose. Owner Harry Sinclair and trainer Sam Hildreth were not satisfied with the result and demanded a return race. They got it and Zev won by a nose, but the finish is still disputed by those who saw the match.
