Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1935, Page 12

A-12 Assignation, U.S. Owned, 50-1in Englis BAHRAM10T0 11 IN CLASSIC RACE Aga Khan’s Ace Must Break 30-Year Precedent for Choice to Score. Br the Associated Press PSOM DOWNS, England, June 4.—By the thousands the rac- ing clans poured today into this village, where upward of a half million are expected to watch 17 of English turf's ranking 3-year-olds, one of them American- owned, battle over one and one-half miles in the English Derby. From Coekney to nobleman there was but one question on favorite, the Aga Khan's Bahram, win? It has been 30 years since an odds- on choice won, and then it was Cicero, at 4 to 11. By a coincidence the field tomorrow is the same size as on that occasion. Also Bahram is in the same stable that Cicero occupied Has Powerful Entry. N THE long span of vears since the Derby was first run fn 1780, the lot of the favorite has been pretty dismal But the turf experts can see no horse capable of whipping Bahram. unless it be one of two stablemates—Hairan end Theft Seldom. if ever, has one owner sent cut such a powerful entry as will rep- resent the Indian potentate, the re- ligious and spiritual leader of more than 100.000.000 Mohammedans. Bah- ram. winner of the two thousand guineas and unbeaten. is the 10-to-11 choice, but Hairan and Theft, both well thought of by their owner. are next in line at 100 to 12 and 100 to 9. respectively Fourth choice was Lord Astor's Field Trial. 100-8. “Bahram is certainly the best horse 1 have ever ridden.” said the colt's veteran jockey, Freddy Fox, “and you can kick me if he loses.” jolly Lord Derby Hopeful. 'I HOPE Fairhaven will run well,” was the comment of Lord Derby regarding his only hope follow- ing the scratching of the highly re- garded Bobsleigh Lord Astor will be represented by the fourth choice in Field Trial, but he expressed little hope of breaking into the Aga Khan's monopoly. Pield ‘Trial was held at 100 to 8 The American-owned horse. Mrs. Corlette Glorney's Assignation. was considered to have nn better than a B0-to-1 chance. but he will have the Al2 'V%r(l*Definition of STANDARD OIL CO tomorrow | Will the odds- | SPORTS. L 3 | TANBARK AND TURE BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. OME day the civillan managers of small horse shows are going | to learn what the Army divined | many yvears ago—that a tan- bark spectacle really is a speclllued‘ sort of drama. Either it has pace, | | continuity and climax, or it proceeds | | mimlessly toward an uncertain goal. Perfect examples of the two types ap- | peared in Virginia during the lut: | week—the two-day Predericksburg | meeting and that at Fort Myer. | Without casting the slightest reflec- tion on the powers behind the Fred- | ericksburg production, we would like to point out to them that—on the opening day. at least, when we at- | tended with Col. Sassafras Surcingle— | their equestrian playet languished and dragged, leaving its audience in a fine fit of yawns. Too many of the classes were tried over the inside course, the judges lingered overlong ere they pinned ribbons and a faintly irritating air of disorder pervaded the day. The advantage of superior entries, enjoved this vear for the first time by this group, was almost completely lost in lackadaisy and the colonel wept into | his seidle to see such a noble chorus | all out of step. ’I"HE Army relief session, on the con- contrary, clicked away like a stock | ticker. Some classes were so large | that it was impossible to get all the horses in the ring and out again in | half an hour, but Maj. Leonard, Col. Scott and Capt. Larrabee snapped outi their decisions after a minimum of | | debate and the instant one event ended | another got under way. Yet pace, even Jed Harris will ad- | mit, is not everything. The Fort| Myer program boasted a variety of | courses and conditions, its drill inter- | ludes befitted a fete day, and through | the afternoon the medicine became benefit of Steve Donoghue's experi- ence in- the saddle. ‘The odds on the others rated from 13 to 1. held against C. W. Gordon's | Sea Bequest, to 500 to 1 against Sir Abe | Bailey's Japetus and St. Botolph. First Son was held at 25 to 1: Fairhaven, 1.000 to 35; Fairbairn, 28-1: Robin Goodfellow and Screamer, 50-1: Prv 2d. 80-1: Plymouth Sound. 100-1: Peaceful Walter, 250-1; Barberry, 300-1, THE EVENING atronger and stronger—hack classes, to ladies hunters, to touch and out, to hunt teams, with the trick open jump- ing for the grand top gallant. NEA’!‘!BT tricks of the week: Louise Herron's second round of the Iadies’ hunter course on Papoose, after the ancient one had made a goat jump with her and shaken loose both her irons. She finished without them. Lieut. Andy Hero's determined bat- tle to stay with his horse Carthquake, which suddenly got ideas from its cwn name in the open jumping. Warth- | quake refused treacherously, almost fell over the jump. Hero went up on the horse’s neck, clung there like a leech while Earthquake staggerad back | away from the fence, finally fell down. The lieutenant was still aboard when they hit the ground together. The deceptive first jump of the touch and out. Only one horse got over it without knocking down the yardsticks. Catch was that the brush fence had a pole placed on top bf it. Capt. Marion Carson’s Turn On alone decided not to brush through. The others all had two chances and failed. 'OL. SURCINGLE'S boomerang | horseshoe, which he hurled out- bound the day we left for the South, | returns with pretty data from the ! Northern hunt meets and horse siiows. We note that when Devon got around to championship day not a single Whitney or Guggenheim hunter was selected, which makes us wonder why the National Capital Committee can't | entice the R. R. Carpenter string down here to give the lacals a real treat. Carpenter’s Dilwyne Farm re- tired the Edward F. Beale champion- | ship trophy with King Vulture this vear and put away another cup, the Fisher Challenge Trophy, in the $1.000 hunter stake, with the same horse. | The Sifton Stable of Canada might | also be persuaded, with proper en-| couragement, to bring the reserve champion Iron Man and its other best ones to Bradley Farms. Mrs. Cary Jackson, in the hospital after a bad accident during the Devon meet, was cheered to know that her Shere Khan won the touch-and-out subscription | stakes, while Mrs. Ellsworth Augustus’ Sand Den, handled by Mrs. Jackson at all shows, was judged the best ladies’ hunter on the grounds. Sweet- | heart on Parade won the $750 five- | gaited class for Mrs. W. P. Roth and Dixiana Farm's Miss America was the best of the saddlers under 15.2. | ANDY DUFFEY of Middleburg rode Bagatelle and Drapeau to victory in two consecutive brush races at the Fairfield and Westchester Hounds race meeting Memorial day, then had a nard fzll when Robert C. Winmill's Rebel Yell hit a marker with him in a flat race. Some ob- servers said that Sid Hirst on Star Trap. the eventual winner, rode Duffey £ | | Yacht Club. Clyde Cruitt and Dan | | into the pylon. The stewards thought | not. STAR, WASHINGTO < VETS AT CALIFORNIA REGAIN CREW SEATS Four in Poughkeepsie Race Last Year Again to Row in Big Event on Hudson, By the Associated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., June 4—With | four Poughkeepsie ‘veterans who had been displaced earlier in the year, back in the boat, Coach Ky Ebright announced today the varsity crew which will defend University of Cali- fornia's intercollegiate rowing cham- pionship on the Hudson, June 18. The four oarsmen of the 1934 | championship shell who fought their | way back are Laurence Dodge, No. 7; Ray Andersen, 5; Ewald Swanson, 3, and Jack Yates, 2. Other experienced veterans include Carroll Brigham, 4, and Reg Watt, coxswain .with Gene Berkencamp, stroke; Trevis Thompson, 6, and Har- ley Flemming, bow, as newcomers. The varsity and freshman crews will leave for the East tomorrow night, — COMET BOATS CLEAN UP Take First Three Places in Finale of Sailing Regatta. | The final day of the Potomac River Sailing Association Memorial day re- gaita was featured by an informal | sailing race at Gunston Cove. Eleven boats sailed over a 1-mile triangular course in a brisk southeast breeze. | It was a big day for the Comets, which took the first three places in the race sponsored by the Corinthian Fowler sailed Freya, the winning boat, | while Sassy, skippered by Verner | Smythe and Emily Ritter, was second. | Maj. Jacobs’ Litl was third. Other | boats competing were Tilp's Bob Cat, Brumbaugh's Wild Cat, Clephane's Difly, De Boer's Sandpiper. Miller's Tern, Preston's Flighty, Dusky Duck and Mitchell's Louise, COLLEGE BASE BALL. Minnesota, 7; Wisconsin, 2. Iowa, 4, Michigan Normal, 2, | | Mrs. Thomas H. Somerville's Sable Dismer & McGann Bird Takes Beats Muff won another of the flat races and Mrs. John Hay Whitney's OId | place. Both sharpshooters had bril- Bachelor disappointed by a hurdle A bird belonging to Dismer & Mc- Tommy Lanigan won the Woodward liant seasons. Espey won the Howard race. The money went to T. W.|Gann made unusually good speed to School hand ball championship yes- Campbell 'Stakes with 1.967 for his Durant’s Galyarrow. which, if we re- member rightly, was nowhere at all when Old Bachelor earned brackets at the United Hunts last week. |‘r; 15 % It takes only 5 more words to include “ATLAS TIRES, BATTERIES AND ACCESSORIES” guaranteed by the world’s leading petroleum organization and subject to adjustment and replacement by any authorized outlet from coast to coast. ESSO MARKETERS 1] capture Pigeon Club race from Pu ki. Va. a hard-fought, three-game match on plishments. while his general league Sixteen lofts each were limited to five the Y. M. C. A. courts. The scores average was 122 Pacini distin- entrants, were 22-20, 20 2 D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935. h Derby: Clarke Earns No. 1 Pin Rating SPORTS. English Derby Favorite 'AVERAGE OF 1265 - INLOOPIS RECORD Also Bowls 125 in Stakes. | Harrison, Second, Voted Best Team Leader. NOTHER chapter in the glam- orous bowling career of Astor Clarke was written last might when a committee of nine | representing the Washington City | Duckpin Association voted the Claren- don bambino the No. 1 ranking duck- | pinner of the District for the 1934-35 seascn, He succeeds Joe Harrison, his Occi- | | dental Restaurant teammate, who was | | placed second in the ranking 10 after | ® gallant effort to retain his coveted | laurels. |~ Clarke received nine first place votes | | for & total of 90 points, against eight | seconds and one third place vote for { Harrison, which gave him a total of | 80 points Clarke fairly won the high honors bestowed on him. His rolling for the Iast season glistens with brilliant achievements. His most notable feat was establishing a new South Atlantic record average of 126-5 for 99 in the Federal League while his general aver- age for sweepstakes rolling was 125. After finishing third i the Dixie with 1,888 he ran ninth in the United States event at Atlanta with 1816 He then placed fifth in the Campbell stakes with 1901 and sixth in the Eastern at Willimantic with 1,930, He was home the winner in the George Washington with 1323 and followed this triumph by winning the Red Megaw stakes with 1,346. He was well over 124 for special matches. Clarke was fourth in the rankings last year. JHILE relinquishing his title Har- | rison was accorded a unanimous vote as the most valuable team bowler, | the committee placing special em BAHRAM, Odds-on choice to win the turf classic at Epsom Downs tomorrow, shown in recent photo taken during walking exercise at Newmarket Heath. 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