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i Li. iij ■ ■Lmsai ► — . 4 Nqgler on Racing Derby Guests Get All Cordial Consideration During Big Week By BARNEY NAGLER CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville, Ky.. May 3.— Derby guests get all cordial consideration here. Daily, this harrowing week, the local radio stations have been broadcasting a warning to tourists. Keep your poke" safe and handy, assorted voices i Li. iij ■ warned warned the the visitors, visitors, against against pickpockets, pickpockets, dips, dips, burglars, burglars, thieves thieves and and warned warned the the visitors, visitors, against against pickpockets, pickpockets, dips, dips, burglars, burglars, thieves thieves and and unfortunate venturers. No form has been, issued on the rate of depredation, but a man reporting to Bill Corums office yesterday offered himself as a vital statistic. "Mr. Corum here?" he asked. "No." | "Ive lost my wallet," he moaned. "I want help getting it back." "Was it a big wallet?" a man asked. "Small," the loser-weeper said. • "Money?" "A thousand dollar bill, a five hundred, and some other money." "Well try to help." Nobody Nobody knows knows how how the the victim victim fared, fared. jit It is is presumed presumed he he will will ■Lmsai Nobody Nobody knows knows how how the the victim victim fared, fared. jit It is is presumed presumed he he will will never again see his keister, leaving him practically broke. He said he had taxi, fare left ■utno% m oureS andiuo airj sba ?i *Xqjaa W8 am ass o; spnop airj qSnoju irBajq 8uj -mora stir ?il3no; nns am sb tepo% spreq sua au; uaAa sj aopid aqx *r*oq spi a» 33 o; Coming out here early, the traffic moved*- swiftly. Kids yammering for parking customers hawked space-from hundreds of lawns. The price was right: a dollar a motor, and there were some innocents abroad who went for the deal lest they be shut out at the course. There was a circuitous route laid out by the police. Around and about, and finally a landfall at the barn area, just off dwelling No. 10, .where a crowd was gathered in front of Silky Sullivans barn. The red flag of courage hung from in front of the stall and a crowd was gathered to see the big horse. . He was standing quietly, bedecked in a cooler, having blown out by way of getting ready for the running some seven hours later. "Nobody there to see him today," a felr low said. "Seems theres a mob. "Nothing like its been. Ive never seen a horse get the attention down here this one has had." Crowds Greater Than Year Ago In town, around the Kentucky Hotel, this was obvious. The crowds were greater this Derby week than last Derby week. They came earlier and milled around the hotel lobbies. Last night bands of local juvenile jousters roamed the streets challenging visitors, "You for Silky?" Pro-Californians abounded. There will few willing to suggest Tim Tam or Jewels Reward had a chance. Now it is Derby day and the mills to the right, just back of the barn area, are topped by low clouds. The sun is trying to cut through, and the early ones in the stand and in the infield and ignoring the wet turf left from yesterdays rain. They have come to the party, and they are going to enjoy themselves. Governor Happy Chandler was not among the morning crowd. He will come here later to bare_his head as they play "My Old Kentucky" Home." .Last year he was in the lobby of the Kentucky, talking baseball with the writers who knew him Continued on Poge Fifty-Fire . I Nagler on Racing Continued from Page Three ,.. hen he was the commissioner, before he ame back here to save the state for his arty. He had been to a banquet and, later, ad gone to a party for the press in the ame hostelry. Man at the door asked the overnor for his credentials. Happy smiled, he man at the door would not take teeth or an answer. He attempted to brush lappy aside. The issue was resolved happily, of course, ut not before the governor threatened to ave the doorkeep, arrested the minute the lah stepped forth_from the hotel.- No word 5 forthcoming as to the lackeys fate, t is known, however, that Happy does not ear a grudge. Not on Derby day. Archie Moore, the fist fighter, will not be lere. He has gone home to California, fter whomping Willie Desmanoff at the Fair Grounds last night. He was confronted by a clique of his press admirers. "Im not so glad all your fellows came to Louisville to see my fight;" Moore said. "Gonna stay for the Derby?" They stayed, of cource and they are all mor, "silly as they are. Stagehand came the way things will be when the Derby horses come to taw. One rumor: Silky is out of the race. • Said a man who has covered many of these races, "Youve got to check every rumor, silly as they are. tStagehand came up with a bellyache the night before his Derby and didnt make it." Silky Sullivan did.
