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CITATION Added second tier of the Triple Crown to his credit through vic ¬ tory in the Preakness which marked his sixteenth success in 18 engagements Leaders in Social Financial And Turf World See Preakness Owners of Four Starters in 4 Race on Hand for Big Event Favorable Weather Prevails PrevailsPIMUCO PIMUCO Baltimore Md May 15 Old Pimlico presented a brilliant setting for the Preakness renewal here this afternoon as leaders in the social financial political and turf world joined with thousands of just plain fam to pay homage to the thoroughbred and witness the running of one of the most famous threeyearold races in the world worldAs As he gates opened at 9 oclock this morning the crowd started steadily in and by noon all unreserved seats had been taken and the centerfield had a generous quota of people to witness the race from that vantage point pointThe The weather smiled on the Maryland Jockey Club being just short of ideal after yesterdays intermittent and heavy rain ¬ storms It was warm and balmy a perfect spring day and while some clouds drifted by in the early afternoon they held no threat of rain rainThe The owners of the four Preakness starters were among the distinguished guests They were Mr and Mrs Warren Wright of Calumet Farm C V Whitney New York and Washington Robert J Kleberg of Texas and Sylvester W Labrot Jr of Annapolis and New Orleans OrleansPreston Preston Lane Jr Governor of Maryland his wife and their daughters were in the gubernatorial box and Thomas DAlesan dro Mayor of Baltimore and his wife rep ¬ resented the city cityOfficial Official Washington Well Represented RepresentedOther Other notables included Philip B Perl man Solicitor General of the United States Attorney General Tom Clark and his Wife Gen Omar Bradley Gen H H Arnold Stuart W Symington Secretary of War for Air Gov Clarence Meadows of West Virginia Senator Burnet R Maybank of South Carolina Senator George W Ma lone of Nevada Stephen Early and Wil ¬ liam A Julian Treasurer of the United States StatesAmong Among the turf representatives were Mr and Mrs William Langley of the New York Racing Commission Bryan Field general manager of Delaware Park Henry A Parr m president and treasurer of the Maryland Jockey Club W W Lanahan vicepresident of the Maryland Jockey Club John O Needles secretary directors John C Clark Janon Fisher Jr Matt L Daiger Lawrence Perin John K Shaw Jr Walter Wickes Vaughn Flannery and David F Woods WoodsSpencer Spencer Drayton executive secretary of the TRA was a clubhouse visitor with sev ¬ eral ranking members of his staff George Mahoney former chairman of the Maryland Racing Commission enter tained a luncheon party on the porch of the old clubhouse clubhouseMarylands Marylands racing commissioners were on the course including Stuart S Janney Jr chairman H Courtenay Jenifer and Frank Small Jr members and J William Graham secretary secretaryNoted Noted also were Gen Milton A Reckord president of Havre de Grace James Clif ¬ ford director of racing at Gulfstream Park and Goss L Stryker former president of Laurel LaurelMarge Marge Lindheimer daughter of Ben Lindheimer of Chicago and Leslie Combs of Spendthrift Farms in Kentucky accom ¬ panied the Warren Wrights in their private plane to the Preakness PreaknessAfter After the second race the red coated Maryland Jockey Club band led by a uni ¬ formed mounted patrol of Baltimore City Police paraded down the stretch to the strains of martial music When they came abreast of the winners circle the proces ¬ sion halted faced the packed stands and rendered the two traditional tunes of Preakness Day Dixie and Maryland My Maryland
