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ON LOCATION FIRST NAMED IN THE DERBY ENTRIES LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 5.— It may be significant of nothing at all, but On Location, which may be the longest shot in the race, was the first to be named for tomorrows Derby when entries were taken at Churchill Downs this morning. Entry clerks were at their posts at 7:15 oclock and just thirty minutes later Neely Clendenning, I agent for the Milky Way Farm, put On Location into the 0,000 special. I Joe W. Browns T. M. Dorsett was the! next to be entered, agent J. R. Burns making him eligible to start at 8:19, and then at 8:35 Earl Sande entered John Hay Whitneys Heather Broom, with J. J. Flanigan following at 8:42 to sign the slip which makes Emerald F. Woodwards Viscounty a contestant. Matt Brady put William Ziegler, Jr.s El Chico into the race at 8:55 and right behind him came Louis Schaefer to enter William L. Branns Challedon. At the same time Schaefer got permission to have Challedon led to the post tomorrow by a stable pony. The favorite, William Woodwards Johnstown, was the seventh horse to be entered, Tommy Driscoll dropping his name and also that of his stablemate, Challenge, into the box at 8:58. Bill Whitley put Herbert M. Woolfs Technician into the Derby a minute later and A. C. Dettwiler came in with the last contestant, Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Xalapa Clown at 9:40.
