Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 48

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDA JUNE 6, 1929 arnegie Scientist Pronounces Man o’ War Greatest American Thoroughbred ST. SIMON, HIS ANCESTOR, e e BELMONT CLASSIC - MAY SETTLE THTLE !Triumph for Blue Larkspur Might Rate Him Best | 3-Year-0ld. : - | | John | gie hi ness of D1 president of the C I yesterday met Harry H Laughlin, secretary and treasurer of the Euj ation and a member of the board of directors of the American Eugenics So v Mr. aughlin showed and explained to me some of the reesearch work he has been | doing at Cold Spring Harbor on the genetics of the thoroughbred hm:l" This work has largely been financed ough the Carncgie Institution. by Walter Salmon, the well known horse- man. 1 cannot for the life of me see why ry race horse owner, breeder and ainer, every writer of racing. yes, and every bookmaker, is not down sit- ting on Mr. Laughlin's doorstep. His is no guesswork, or matter of opinion. In a study of years. he has made a | study of blood ‘strains and their r sults which is as concrete and mathe- | Kir C. Merriam, Institution, IVAL FOR WORLD RANK RIVA to Exact Formula by Use of Figures, Facts and Logical Demonstration. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. O less an authority than the department of genetics of the S BY ORLO L. ROBERTSON, N the greatest American race horse of all time. Moreover, it Aseodinted" Prosst BROAaHWEiter, calls him the finest race horse of record in any land, with a 4, STa v 2 » 0: v lusive thing known as admits may be compared with Man o’ War on an almost even basis el :sdgn English ancestor on his mother’s side, St. Simon. the 3-year-old champion Sim was Rocksand’s grandfather, so you can figure out the other |urday at _'v.he sixty-first nmning" rc’x'qu}'ln.\ Mahubah v never among the greaatest on the track, |of the $75,000 Belmont Stakes. 3 r Kings v y | 2 igh Count Followers of the sport of kings do not always admit the supremacy | Unlike a year ago, when Re! of St grmu»u‘rrm-arnndson, Many of them argue the merits | stood head and shoulders above Amer- - o 3 - racing season, no colt has yet appeared Kingston, Colin, Domino, Zev, Sysonby, Exterminator or Sir Barten. |y ¢“can Tightfully lay claim to the They maintain that it is all a matter of opinion. u of America’s oldest race over the fash- which any branch of the Carnegie fonable mile-and-one-half Belmont Institution comes to a rrn(‘lu,sml}l. iR o s\c(ry L b; R : old d ds e per of mathematical and logical demon- told depends upon the pe arman(cemp Kentucky Derby but sensational winner of the Withers. If. and it's a rather gervant— | Blossom Time can.duplicate his smash- | ing Withers performance, then he can Clyde Van Dusen Out. i | the Kentucky Derby, not eligible, and Scores, Capturing Cup | Kari Eitel, victor in the Fairmont ad. Race by a Head | Clyde Van Dusen, confining their ac- | tivities to Midwestern tracks, Blue | from Eastern horses. It is doubtful if o PSOM, England, June 6.—Reigh | more than 15 go to the post and the I year's Kentucky Derby, finally| EXperts are saying that the Belmont on Tace today in his invasion | Vil be just another'Withers, only at & | of England, romping off with | the case, Blue Larkspur, Jack High and the Coronation Cup. | Chestnut Oak will fight it out for the matically correct as a study of ballistics. | With J. Childs astride the American | preaynacs winner, having & good out- He has taken the records of hun- |colt instead of Chick Lang, who has|side chance. Dr. Freeland finished the Genetics Wizard Reduces Judgment of Race Horses Carnegie Institution of Washington pronounces Man o’ War | single exception. The one thoroughbred which this department NE\\’ YORK, June 6—That | Man o' War's mother was Hahubah, daughter of Rocksand. St.| may be determined Sat- but she hd great male ancestors and a wonderful son | But again it may not. of their personal favorites, such princes of the blood as Salvator, | ica’s 3-year-olds at this stage of the AN honors. But after Saturday's renewal But that is not the manner in course, a different story may be written It demands figures, facts and a| | ! Blue Larkspur, disappointment of stration large if, the son of Black at least claim the crown. | laim th i wpion Finall American Champion Y| win Clyde Van Dusen, winner of | | Derby, and Naishapur, runner-up to U e | Larkspur will find his chief opposition Count, American winner of last | field may be even smaller. longer distance. If such proves to be | rich turf award, with Dr. Freeland, dreds of race horses, charted their |nad the mount since he won the 1928 | Withers mile on Memorial day in breeding ‘and_their performances, con- sidered all factors which to their success or faflure on the track cr in the stud and figured out a for- | mula—a contant—by which all horses | mey be judged. He has arrived at a mean quality of performance and what he calls his near-kin-index shows tlie . performance of their offspring. Mr. Laughlin has deduced the probable career of colts unborn, and then watched them to see how near the deduction measured up. He has reduced the effect of such fac- tors as age, weight and speed to a plot- ting board. In this connection he has discovered that mares reach their peak of racing at about 215 vears, horses at 315 years and geldings at 5i; years. Mr. Laughlin maintains that, just as there is a certaln weight at which an object can be thrown furthest—you can throw a base ball farther than a feath- | er—go there are certain weights at| which a thoroughbred reaches maxi- | mum efficiency. 1 am speaking now of the weight carried, not the weight of the thoroughbred itself. ~Contrary to the ideas of handicappers, Mr. Laugh- iin believes that the average race horse does its best with 112 pounds on its back, and that when you decrease that weight, as well as increase it, if does not_make for maximum speed. The fact that Man o' War appeared to get much from his mother's side of the family interested me. This some- times would seem to be true in the case of males in the human family. John L. Sullivan’s father was a smali man, but his mother was a large and powerful -woman, This is only one of many instances. Figures demonstrate that the two greatest children of Man o' War have been Crusader and Edith Cavell. At the same time, we should 2ot forget Clyde Van Dusen and Scaps Flow. contribute | (Copyright, 1929, by North pabe; c American News- r Alliance.) MANDELL POIRTING FOR MILLER BOUT By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 6.—Sammy Mandell, world’s lightweight champion. point- ing to a match with Ray Miller, Chicago left-hooker, as the big shot of his Summer campalgn. The match has been tentatively set as an_outdoor attraction for Detroit, Eddie Kane, Mandell’s pilot, said today. Miller will be the opponent, Kane safd, provided the Chicago boy gets by Billy Petrolle, the .Fargo Express, in_their return 10-roimd engagement in Detroit tonight. If Petrolle wins, he will be selected to face the lightweight cham- ion. Flovd Fitzsimmons, arena in Club are who is building Detrot, and the Olympi; bidding for the match, Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. — Kid Chocolate, Cuba, outpointed Vidal Gregorio, Spain (10); George Courtrey, Oklahoma, out- pointed Jack Hovey, New York (10); Joe Gans, California, outpointed Pinkey Kaufman, Hartford, Conn. (10): Wallace, Philadelphia, outpointed Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle, N. Y. (10). Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders Repaired; also New Radiators Harrison Radiators and Cores in Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th North 7177 4th, 1% Block Below Ave. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F USED TIRES Traded in on General Dual Balloons Most;:ll—sizen General Tire Company 13th & Eye Sts. Billyy Kentucky Derby, Reigh Count led Ath- ford to the finish by a head. A length separated the second and | third horses. Reigh Count was quoted at 10 to 1 to win, 9 to 4 to place and 5 to 1 to show. The race was over the mile-and- | half-up-and-down-hill course of Epsom Downs—the same course over which the Derby was run yesterday. It was Reigh Count's fourth start on English turf and the first time he has finished in the money. On his three previous races | he wound up in eleventh, ninth and| twelfth places respectively. | Running second to America’s cham- | pion 3-year-old of 1928 was Athford, owned by Willlam Barnett of Ireland, | vhose Trigo won the Epsom Derby yes- | Athford had previously taken the measure of Mrs. John . Hertz's great colt at Kempton. W. Singer's| Plantago was third in the fleld of nine. | fourth place, eight lengths back of Jack High, but the big Light Brigade colt is considered a much better runner over the longer route. Jack High in Running. Only Jack High has been out since that memorable Memorial day finish, and in that he showed that he still is in the running. While not meeting the | class which he will encounter Satur-| day, the G. D. Widener color bearer clicked off the mile-and-an-eighth in 1:503-5, which compares favorably with the track record of 1:49. He made | all his own pace and won by a length from Folking and Marine, both of | which are probable starters in the Bel- mont. | Chestnut Oak, a_speedy colt by Ap- | prehension from the Oakridge stable, is particularly dangerous off his only two races this season. In the first he soundly whipped Igloo, Battleship Gray, Aquaplane and Baron King—a group of | (| | DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEZHAN. Hagen's Bad Manners. UR Walter Hagen may or may not be the greatest golfer in the world O a business pure and simple; but this does not let Walter Hagen out Izimer's end to leave his wife and chil- | dren. Miske came into the ring on time. His attitude was much that of a man | waiting his summons Dempsey let his suffering victim wait haif an hour in the throes of ment agony. It was entirely unnecessary. Dempsey but any achievement thai he has made on the links of Britain is toyed with him for a few rounds, and dimmed, if not entirely obscured, by his bad manners and utter lack of | when the crowd, sensing the set-up,| sportsmanship. Of course, when any sport is professionalized it becomes began to boo, knocked him out The persons who hold that courtesy the gallows. | He was “getting Miske's goat." | His conduct in regard to the match with the British professional, Archie and consideration go only with ama-| Compston, for good business requires at least common courtesy. Hagen on the professional indicates not only lack of sportsmanship but lack of business sense, teurism will blame the boorishness of | attitude ‘According to Associated Press dispatches, Hagen, after agreeing to the Hagen's may be one class of profes-| match with Compston, tried to evade meeting the British professional. He sional attitude. There is another brand was forced by British public opinion to go through with his |of professional attitude which is best | compact. ated Hagen, who is ageous of the golfel One gathers that he agreed to the match only after it | parent that it would be bad business not | to go through with it; that it would cut off some of the | was made very A profits which were promised through the trip to Europe. But it is evident that H: very bad grace. On the day set for the match there was a gallery nfi 2,500 on hand at the time set for the professionals to tee off. | These 2,500 were, as we might say, Hagen's customers and | They waited almost an hour before the American professional appeared on the | links. Compston, Hagen's opponent, was on the links at | a mafjority of them Hagen's admirers. the time set, but refused to dress until Hagen appeared There is some justification for Compston’s did not, as the British say, care to be made game of. Walter Hagen: o\est of the British golf enthusiasts. Here s further evidence that international sporting contests do not in any o the result of Hagen's triumphs” in Britain hardly can be classed as sporting gestures to induce It looks very much as though the United States Golf Association should extend some sort of an apology to the British v tend to promote international amity. In fact, friendliness and mutual respect. golfing authorities for our man Hagen. Also, it might be well if the U. S. G. A. | cnsidered a while before sending overseas men who would not be representative | of the spirit of American golfers. The conduct of Hagen in regard to the match with Compston is likely to give the British people a poor opinion of American sports. Cer- tainly it justifies anything that Mr. Bernard Darwin, British golf authority, has written in criticism of Hagen and his conduct in these tournaments. In the United States Hagen is & popular idol, and nothing that he doegnelvcr | erc | Of course, he | is & professional, and & professional is out to win regardless. But there are | professionals who still can win at their games and preserve at least the outward | is held against him. He wins golf tournaments—and that is sufficient. is no thought as to his methods and his conduct on the links. show of sportsmanship. The fact that this is not the first time that Hagen has done the same thing while supposed to be representing American golf in England !=dicates that it §s not a temperamental weakness, but an utter disregard for common courtesy. | In the Fight Racket. Conduct of this sort on the part of | Weight champion, the greatest of the professional golfers Miske at Benton Harbor. tends to put professional golf on a par with professional prize fighting, which admittedly and by usage is tinged with larceny and studied cruelty. habit of a champion to let the com~ tender enter the ring first and then keep him waiting, in the ho > that he will become fretful and nervous. This is called “getting the other fellow's goat,” and is accepted as part of the strategy of the manly art of modified murder. But, then, as the late Willus Britt put it, “There ain't no ethics in the fight game.” But golf is a pastime which is sup- posed to have been founded upon courtesy and good sportsmanship. It is evident, if Hagen is a type, which I hope he is not, that courtesy and good sportsmanship are not to be learned from the professionals. the opponent wait, fighting _ Billy It is the runners that are far from being platers. Then in his next start—the Withers— he looked like a winner until the final 70 yards. He faltered just long enough | to allow Blue Larkspur to beat him out, but had enough left to hold off Jack High. As for the others, it is hard to tell. TODAY THE PROVI | 1225 K St. N. W National 5075-5076 A ravio EEDO MOTOR OIL % FROM PENNSYLVANIA AND OTHER PARAFFINE BASE CRUDES GROUND FOR MOTOR Col. Arthur Goebel says... “I’'ve proved VEEDOL Motor Oil in airplanes in all kinds of weather, | on all kinds of flights . .. stunt, endurance, long distance. I use nothing else in my planes or cars. I'm satisfied.” Put this heavier-bodied, longer-lived, super-heat resisting motor oil in your car. And get the same motor service it gives the greatest pilots . . . Byrd, Chamberlin, Goebel, Jensen, Stinson, Amelia/ Earhart and scores of others TAYLOR-KORMAN OIL CO. Exclusive Distributors WHAM, WIR, WLW, WCFL, THE NEW Tune in Every Thursday Night, 8 to 8:30 Washington Time. 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But Babe Ruth never kept a | crowd of base ball fans waiting for him The overgrown playboy has been afficted by temverament and by an occasional brainstorm: he has thumbed his nose at his owner and he has treated his manager with contempt at times. But never once during his career as a base ball player has Babe Ruth ever shown any disregard for his customers. out of his way to entertain and to please gravity “his public.” It is not merely public; it is because he appreciates it and makes his public feel that he has | appreciation. vious but graceful gesture of appreci tion. Of course, the skeptical may maintain that these gestures are not entirely spontaneous, but that they are inspired by sage advice and that it is all good business. Even 80, you must give Babe Ruth credit for having the good sense to realize that the show of sportsmanshi~ and the sympathy for the crowds is good business. Appar- ently Hagen lacks the vision of Babe Ruth. (Copyright, 1929.) |FORMER DEVITT PLAYER TO LEAD ARMY TWELVE Word has been received at Devitt School of the election of Richard O'Keefe, a 1926 Devitt graduate, as cap- tain of the 1930 Army lacrosse team. O'Keefe also is ol ! foot ball at Devitt. because he perhaps is the greatest base | ball player of all time that he has this | iard, and at the conclusion of the 10 He plays base ball for money—all of | BY the Associa Ruth is never too busy to make ob- !boy about the body to take the first | round, the Kid snared the second, out- | boxing and_outpunching the overseas ringster. The third | number and_Vidal's | him the fourth. Chocolate had a slight CHOCOLATE SCORES heat was an even flashing fists won ON JUDGES' RULING Referee for Gregorio and Crowd Also Is Strong for Spaniard. ted Press. HILADELPHIA, June 6—Sharp difference of opinion between judges and referee formed a foundation upon which many an argument was built today as to which boy established a margin of su- premacy in 10 tempestuous rounds last night between Kid Chocolate, Cuba's fistic sensation, and Vidal Gregorio, fiery Spanish bantamweight title con- tender. Chocolate kept his unblemished record unsullied when he won the ring de- On the contrary, he always is going cision, but it was Gregorio who was the idol of the crowd of more than 20,000 spectators was captured by the courage- ous, rushing attack of the little Span- rounds the rabid thrill-seekers lustily hooted their derision of the decision. The two judges voted for Chocolate. | while Referee Tommy Reilly cast his | ballot for Gregorio. A chorus of pro- tests that equaled the early showers of rain descended upon the field with the decision_announcement, and it stopped only when the fiery Gregorio took a bow in midring. A mightly ovation greeted the dancing, bowing little toreador. Immediately after the jam, Louis Gu- leniz, manager of Chocolate, announced that his charge had injured both of his thumbs in the fourth period. The in- | juries, he said, would compel Chocolate to cancel a number of engagements ar- ranged for him The injured thumbs evidently did not bother the Cuban, for he continued to whang away with both fists right up to the finish. Fans commented that it didn't look at all as though the Kid had | anything the matter with him from the | toes uarterback on the | team. He played “ Gregorio went 117V, tips of his fingers to the ends of his es. Chocolate weighed 119% pounds and After Gregorio had pelted the colored | those Battling Nelson-Joe Gans encotin- margin in the fifth, sixth and seventh Gregorio's offensive gave him the edge in the next two rounds. 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