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SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1963 THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS 4 section roua YEAR'S BIGGEST 2 JUINUTES FOR BULLIONS Snubbed by Riddle, Man OWar, Derby's Now THE Race Until you go to Kentucky and with, your own tytt Behold tht Derby, you ain't never been no place and you ain't never $een nothiri By STEVE SNIDER, United PrfM International Quick now. what year did Man OWar win the Kentucky Derby. Pick a year, any year, and you'd be dead wrong. In what now would be considered an Incredible oversight on the part of owner Sam Riddle, Man O'War was romping In a pasture hundreds of miles away when the horses were running at Churchill Downs the year Big Red was eligible to etch his name on the all-time list of Derby winners. That was 1920.

Man O'War was famous. The Derby hadn't quite made it Riddle, perhaps Influenced by the veddy, Teddy social set that ruled eastern racing la those day, thought so little of the 46-year-old fixture oat In the Bluegraas country that no effort was made to get his great champion ready for shipment to Louisville. Few turfmen ever felt that way again. A year later, the Derby suddenly caught fire when racing hit a rising tide of popularity with a public released from the cares of World War I. Only then did two decades of devoted press agentry begin to pay off big for Col.

Matt Winn, the colorful Derby director who saw every running of the classic from the opening victory by Aristidei in 1875 until his death at 88 in 1949, Ponder'i winning year. It soon became the race-of-the-year for turfmen, celebrities, nobodies. NEXT SATURDAY, millions of Americans who never saw a Mve race horse or ever hope to see one will be making mental bets on the Derby or praying they draw names like Never Bend or Candy Spot office betting pools. The traditional Lirfl. Old Lady From Dubuque will know It's Derby Day Just as surely as do tht Kentucky hardboots But there's only one Kentucky Derby and that's at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday each May over a mile and a quarter of track that long ago was dubbed Heartbreak Highway.

Perhaps a dozen horses of the original 129 nominated for this year'a Derby will go to the post for a little over two minutes of racing In which the winner will earn around $120,000 and an Immortality that can't be gained anywhere else. The element of chance is a vital force In these day Just preceding the Derby. Injury, sudden illness, inexplicable failure to reach expected form in events leading up to the big one frequently knock out even the mightiest contender. A sudden surge can turn a long shot into a hot shot THE DERBY LONG has been America's most famous horse race but there was a time during the middle yean of Matt Winn's directorship that one brig city dweller waa prompted to ask why In thunder such an important event was staged In such an out of the way place. There's only one place to stage the famous Passion Play, one place to Inaugurate the President of the United State and the only place to run the Derby," the Kentucky colonel said solemnly.

"The Derby belongs in the heart of the horse country." The spectacle alone is worth the admission price and travel time 100,000 people, more or less, growing misty-eyed, then restive, as the band plays My Old Kentucky Home during the parade to the post. It's a thrill one-timers never forget and old-timen never get used to. Then there are the stay-at-homes who get it via the airwaves, those same outer fringe Derby devotees who once thrilled to Gem McCarthy's gravel-throated "R-r-r-r-acing fans!" on the radio and who now have a better view on television than many at the scene who had their fancy box-aeat reservations handed down from grandfather to father to ion. No matter how you take it, it's tha Derby. i i rsf 1 I I 1 v.

1 I I tiilW. WWftllf Wthsn I- -lUKiilTiiitilril MAN O'WAR MEMORIAL AT LEXINGTON Young and Old Visit Statuo Today. reach and easier on the parse etiing than Louisville during Derby week when prices go Into orbit. SA3I RIDDLE, OWNER OF MAN O'WAR Still Followed Horses in 1930s. There are older raees.

There are richer races. There are truer testa of hora flesh. There are place easier to and Innkeepers who live for the day as nds do for Christmas. GUEST COLUMN State Fair said. Among them if A.

C't Vfldnf, winner of last year's Hambleto- 16 Horses Eligible DU QUOIN. Apr. 24 UR Sixteen horses are eligible to com niian trotting classle for 3-year- olds. The new Maturity Is open to pete this year in the first Hamble-tonian Maturity for 4-year-old, trotters, In August, the Du Quoin horses nominated for the previous LOCAL SCENE Dolphins Double In Coaching Brass By JOHN OLESKY, Dally News Sports Writer season's Hambletonian. PECK'S ENTRY FALLS, DIES IN STEEPLECHASE SANBOWN PARK, England, Apr.

Owen's Sedge, owned by film star Gregory Peck, fell four fences from home in a steeple-chest today and died soon afterward from internal Injuries. Peck was reported to have paid $25,000 for the 10-year-old gelding shortly before the Grand National Steeplechase at Aln-tree Mar. 30. Peck saw Owen's Sedge finish seventh. Owen's Sedge ran only twice for Peck in the National and again today.

Williams Still Best on Hitting Even as Coach GENERAL LOAN Co. THE DAYTON DOLPHINS are adding to their coaching ranks. rii r.j.i uiympic oaines ouvcr jvieuai (m homer fcam Hail, tne oiver, ana i Bill Morgan, associate professor of physical ed- ucation at Uni- ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION INTRODUCING OUR NEW MANAGER R. L. NICELY, By ARTHUR DALEV, New Tork Times Service NEW YORK, Apr.

27 "Life has not been too unpleasant," new Red Sox manager Johnny Pesky ob-Berved the other day, "Yaz is going great." Yaz is Carl Yastrzemski, once heralded as a future Ted and now batting .368. ton, have dou- Jj HEYMAN, THURMOND EYED NBAWantsThorn -With Baltimore bled the staff. Morgan will oversee tne program, as said the business-like Johnny, Jr "Yaz is no Williams, though," vctoine the thought even before it was Id 1 swimming, Gorkls JulUerat Hall will work with Stu berg university's Dinner of Cham Felt end Neighbor NEW YORK, Apr. 27- Art Heyman of Duke, Rod Thorn of West Virginia and Nate Thurmond of Bowling Green shape up today as the first three choices at the National Basketball association annual college draft as Olesky diving coach. pions at 6:30 p.m.

Thursday in year 1 1 It Jon Urbanscok will continue as the university's Celdhouse for all coach. of the Tigers' athletic teams." wtJA oiiiciais began garnering lor the circuit major annual meeting. offered. "In fact, It's unfair to use Ted as a yardstick because he's the only one of his kind. No man in the world knows as much about hitting as Ted does and that's why I asked him to help me out at spring training.

'Why do you want me?" he said ai if he didn't know. 'I can give advice to the little guys because I'm a little guy I said. 'But I Just don't have the nerve to try to tell the big guys like Dick Stuart and Bob Tillman how to hit' "'I guess you're right he said, laughing at me. He took over like gang- a i Morgan also Is prep and junior swim coach for the Dayton YMCA. Van Buren to Oilers Miamisburg product Jack Van Buren, University of Cincinnati Junior Tom Roser, whose main claim to Roosevelt fame was as a football renter, smashed Earlham's discus record with a 135-foot, 7'rlnch toss Marion high, of Maria Stein, will hold its athleue ban Officials of the nine teams will begin their meeting Monday.

Final approval of the transfer of the Chicago team to Baltimore, and the sale of the Cincinnati Royals to a home town group will be on the agenda. Company ona i 1 Nicely. I bom My nam. RonaM NJM spr2: a Kav. rn.

Ani4ant Manas senior who played varsitv foot Little John lit a big dgar and con- 1-1' for yean. Uan unuea Williams 'iiJMk ball as a 190-pound a 1 f-back for three years, has signed a contract with the The 1963-64 schedule will also be talked over. DISCUSSION of the presidency Thurmond Heyman probably will come on Wednes friendly and qutck CASH LOANS kv end win apprdrt Houston Oilers of the A merl can I I I day. Maurice Podoloff, who has headed the organization since it was formed 14 years ago, is re Football 'Burg Coach To Fnirfiftlfl I want to owa nry v. epporh.nHyHd.WnH.wHhyoa quet at 7 p.m.

Wednesday In the school auditorium with Flndlay college coach Lou JulUerat, former Troy football pilot, as the speaker Southpaw Bud Dirscherl, of Troy is one of the mainstays of Ohio university's baseball team Jack Ortman. Sycamore Creek golf pro, is tomorrow's noon luncheon speaker at the Agonis club meeting in Suttmiller's The Dayton Spartans' schedule in the Midwest Football league, with home games to be assigned to various Miami Valley towns (all Michigan opponents) Sept Litnf; U-t Reuters; B-Bui Ork; 2.1 DetrrtL Oct. ML riemana; 12M Laaetaff 1 Darbom: Bttl Crt Not. 3 Drtnxt: at UL CUnitnai ported planning to retire. league Son of r.

and J. Walter Kennedy, mayor of I Mrs. Hildebert Van Buren Mrs. Hildebert Stamford, and former CARL Peirano. who gulded'Van Buren of Miamisburg.

Jack NBA press chief, regarded as Miamlsburg's football squad to; is marired to Josephene DiMatr eall, wrH. PJ $100 of $2,000 tllM -OJC" loan until "pay day," I tf od his probable successor. a 4-6 season last fall, has been teo, daughter of Joe, long-time named grid mentor at Hamilton snorts figure in the Dayton area. The New York Knlcks, by vir tue of the worst record last sea raimeia nign scnooi, succeeding son, have the first draft pick and Bob Adams. Tidbits are almost certain to tab John Horan and Jim Poelking were classmates for eight years Peirano, 3S, Wilminsrton college grad who coached the Vikings one season, has a 52-40-3 record in 4IIC 11 years of pre He pre-! other day, with the former Unl STTTDEXTS PfCK SWIMMER Joe Shaw, captain-elect of Ml- ami university's 11163-64 swim-' ming team and Mid-American! viously served at Plattsburg, GENERAL LOAN Co.

6 NO. LUDLOW-PHONE 224-748 IJ versity of Dayton basketballer at home and Poelking, of the bowline lanes with the same name, at South Charleston and Montpelier, Despite reports they plan to trade Heyman to Cincinnati for the rights to Jerry Lucas, ex-Ohio State star, NBA sources say the Knicks may keep the 6-foot-4 Duke All-America. The Baltimore team, with the "Ted was wonderfuL He got through to Tillman, closed up his stance and Improved him so much that Tillman hit one ever the light tower the other day. All the ball players are eraiy about They were also that way when we were teammates. -f "This time he even seemed to get along with the press.

There wasn't as much of a rumble. But you know Ted. Whenever he wanti to turn It on, he can charm a snake. "I used to hit ahead of him in the batting order and every once in a while he'd crack down on me. It would come when Td let myself get pull-conscious and try to powder tha ball to right field.

"Don't do It, be'd say. 'You're not big enough or strong enough to overpower the pitcher. Hit what you see and hK ever the middle or to left The pitchers don't throw you many curves because no pitcher wants to risk walking you to get at "That may sound like boasting but It was merely a simple Statement of fact Ted knew what everyone else in baseball knew: that he was the best hitter in tha business." Dick Stuart Man of His Word How about Dick Stuart? The big first baseman had been obtained from the Pittsburgh Pirates to beat a tattoo on the friendly leftbeld fence. "Dick had me baffled," said Johnny. "When he first arrived In Arizona, he must have driven 75 balls out of the park In batting practice.

Then he stopped. I couldn't understand it. spoke to him. "Don't worry, Johnny," he said. 'I hve to worry, I said, 'because you're new to lue and I doot know Take my word for It, he said.

I he all 'I'm not lura I can wait' I aid. 'You've been falling flat en your face. Maybe I should rest That'i when I tried out Gary Geiger at first But as soon as the season started, Stuart was a different man, just as he laid be'd be." conference record holder In three events, has been elected by students on the Miami campus to St. Elizabeth The notes? On surgery, which both under DAYTON, OHIO serve on the Student Senate, campus governing body. next pick, is reported high on Thorn.

San Francisco, which al Royal Slakes To Raise You Ten In Tight Finish SANDOWN PARK. England, ready has 7-foot Wilt Chamber- be taked over. his probable successor. CTSCTYNATI HILL pick Tom Apr. 27 Raise You Ten, owned by P.

A. B. Wldener of Ocala, took the lead in the Thacker of the University of Cincinnati, possibly as a territorial choice. Other first round picks might pjofflebs include: last furlong today and won the Royal Stakes at Sandown park by a short head. Raise You Ten was a 25-2 shot.

In The Gloaming, in second place, was 7-4 favorite and REIJNED Jerry Ward. Boston college; Eddie Miles, Bill Green, went John I who stepped down as Stebhlns football coach last week, once played end for Indiana university In the mid-40s The other end? Guy railed Ted Kluszewsld, once the short-sleeved Cincinnati Red, Ex-Fairmonter Bob Logan fired a 71 as Wittenberg's medalist against Ohio Wesley an Prep All-American Tony Vlertlboeck, chosen Ohio's No. 1 lineman, decided to enroll at the University of Houston Jim Sieinke, the former Colonel White basketball player now living In Van Wert, pulled a muscle broad-Jumplni? for Earlham college and will be out lndefnitely Steinke missed part of the basketball season with a dislocated shoulder Agonis Speaker Hugh (Duffy) Daiigherty, Michigan State football coach, will be the principal speaker at Witten- Colorado State and Roger Strick Never Beat, at 9-1, finished third, land, University of Jacksonville. ti ti A sleeper pick could be Her- ,05 schel West of Grambling, high only a short head further away. Raise You Ten.

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