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Wordage Filed on Big Race Exceeds Any Other Event CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky., May 6. — Paul Snyder, Louisville Western Union executive, will be serving the press box turfwriters for his forty-eighth Derby. Each year in the past, Snyder has made the wire arrangements to keep a flow of copy from the typewriters of the turfwriters, representing metropolitan papers from coast to coast and border to border, speeding toward its destination and conversion into type. The Western Union press wires have made it possible for readers everywhere in America who were not fortunate enough to attend the race to read about the race and its many interesting sidelights. Snyder has watched the volume of copy grow from a comparatively small volume to last years record wordage of 286,000 words used by more than 200 writers to Inform the American public of the running |„j of the race. S "This wordage filed from a press box exceeds by far the volume filed on any other sports event in America," Snyder said.
