THE MICHIGAN DAILY

War Admiral Runs To Smashing Victory In Kentucky

Derby

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Pompoon Fails
To Make Good
In Stretch Bid
Winner Sets Second Best
Time In Derby History;
ReapingReward Third
CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville,
Ky., May 8.-('P)-War Admiral, son
of Man O' War and the favorite,
raced to a smashing victory today in
the 63rd Kentucky Derby before a
crowd of 63,000. War Admiral led
from start to finish, beating J. H.
Loucheim's Pompoon by two lengths'
and Mrs. Ethel V. Mars' Reaping Re-
ward by five lengths.
Charley Kurstinger, Louisville boy,
who rode Twenty Grand to record-
breaking triumph in the 1931 derby,
gained his second victory in the good
time of 2:03 1/5 for the mile and a
quarter.
Winner Behaves Badly
War Admiral, after behaving badly
at the post, broke in front and never
was headed. Kurtsinger hit the fa- 
vorite. only twice with the whip as
they rounded the turn leading into
the home stretch and beat off the
only challenger, Pompoon.
War Admiral, carrying the colors'
of the Philadelphia sportsman and
owner of Man O' War, justified his
strong backing by outclassing a field
of 20 three-year-olds, one of the six
largest in derby history.
The winner was the second son of
Man O' War to capture the bluegrass
classic. Clyde Van Dusen, in 1929,
was the other.
War Admiral's time was the second
fastest in the history of the event.
Only Twenty Grand's 2:01 4/5 ex-
ceeded the Riddle colt's remarkably
fast performance.
War Admiral turned loose a start-1
ling blast of speed after behaving so
badly at the post, for approximately
10 minutes, that the favorite's back-
ers were worrying about the possibil-
ity of the colt leaving his stamina at 
the post. The start, finally, was
minus any of the rodeo spills of lastc
year.
Leads All The Way
Once War Admiral showed in frot,
in the first dash down past the packed
stands, there was little doubt as to
the result and not much excitement
except for that furnished briefly in
the stretch by Pompoon. The son of
Pompey, not considered good enough
to go the distance, surprised by giving
the pace-setter a real challenge.
Pompoon was well rated by Jockey
Harry Richards, moving up to.fourth
place on the back stretch, and making
a gallant stretch bid.
The rest of the field was well beat-E
en. Fairy Hill and Heelfly, the hope
of the Texas contingent, followed War'
Admiral's pace for the first three#
quarters but were beaten off on the
last turn.
Melodist, conqueror of Pompoon a
week ago in the Wood Memorial and
well supported among the long shots,
finished fourth.
Pays At 5-2
War Admiral paid $5.20 to win for
each $2 mutuel ticket, thus going to
the post slightly short of 5-2 odds.
The place price was $4.20, with $3.40
for show tickets on the victor.
Pompoon paid $9.40 and $6 on place
and show tickets. Reaping Reward's
show price was $3.80.
The winner, besides being decorat-
ed with the rose wreath, in the color-
ful ceremony after the race, rewarded
owner Riddle with the bulk of the
prize money - $52,575. Pompoon's
owner collected the second place
money, $6,000, while $3,000 went to
Reaping Reward and $1,000 to Melo-
dist.

Trailing the first four, in order,
were fifth, Sceneshifter, sixth Heel-
fly, seventh, Dellor, eighth Burning
Star, ninth Court Scandal, tenth Clo-
dion, eleventh Fairy Hill, twelfth
Merry Maker, thirteenth No Sir, four-
teenth Grey Gold.

Alumni's Choice

Buckeyes Bow
To Trackmen
In 76-50 Wini
Eight Firsts Aid Hoytmen f
To Cop Eighth Victory;
Two Records Broken
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13/4 mile post where the Michigan;
runners made their bid but the Ohio
Boys' finish was too much for Mich-
igan's game O'Connell.
Stoller, Smith Take Century
The crack Wolverine sprint com-
bine of Stoller and Smith hit full
stride to annex the century and fur-
long for the Hoyt forces. Stoller took
the lead from the gun and finished
five yards ahead of Ohio's Lewis, who
nosed Smith out by the narrowest of
margins. Al Smith recovered from
his last week's slump against the
Hoosiers, where he finished an ane-
mic third in the 220, to run the
best furlong of his career and finish
an easy first in 21.5.
Chuck Beetham turned in the only
record-smashing track performance
of the afternoon as he negotiated the
880-yard run in 1:52.6 to chop .6 sec-
onds off his own Ferry Field record set-
in 1935. Clayt Brelsford, in his first
appearance in his old race in two
years finished second also going past
the judges under the old record. He
turned the distance in 1:53.
Osgood Double Winner
Captain Bob Osgood turned in his
daily double with wins in the high
and low hurdles. In both races Os-
good was never threatened as he!
flashed home a hurdle ahead of the
field. Dave Albritton finished sec-
ond in the low hurdles and Steve
Mason copped the three-point. spot
in the lows.
Big Bill Watson, although unable
to duplicate his last week's 20-point
slam, turned in his usual great work
in the shot to win first and topped
off the afternoon with a pair of sec-
onds in the broad jump and discus
to take undivided scoring honors with
11 points. Watson's bad knee would
not.allow him to compete in the high
jump. Jake Townsend hit late seasor
form as he took the discus throw with
a toss of 150 feet 10% inches.
Buck High Jumpers Win
The Buckeye's two world record
holding high jumpers experienced
little difficulty in cleaning up tha
event. Dave Albritton won at 6 fee
6 inches although Walker also clearec
the same height. Albritton gettinf
the nod on the newly instituted "few-
est trys rule." Albritton's jump bet-
tered the 13-year-old Ferry Field
mark of 6 feet 34 inches set b3
Smith of Michigan in 1924.
Sam Stoller, Bill Watson, and A'
Smith collaborated to sweep thi
broad jump, Stoller collecting firs'
money with a leap of 23 feet, 6%
inches.

Track Summaries
One mile run-Won by Davidson
(M); second, Blickle (0); third,
Stache (M) ; Time, 4:19.7.
440 yard dash-Won by Squires
(0); second, Miller (M); third,
Howells (0); Time, 48.4.
100 yard dash-Won by Stoller
(M); second, Lewis (0); third, Smith1
(M); Time, 9.7.1
120 yard high hurdles-Won by Os-
good (M); second, Albritton (0);
third, Seitz (0); Time, 14.5.
880 yard runt-Won by Beetham
(0); second, Brelsford (M); third,
Blickle (0); Time, 1:52.6. New Ferry
Field record.
220 yard dash-Won by Smith
(M) ; second, Lewis (0); third,
Stiles (M); Time: 21.5.
Two mile run-Won by Whittaker
(0); second, O'Connell (M); third,
Alix (M); Time, 9:38.4.
220 yard low hurdles-Won by Os-
good (M); second, Mason (M); third,
Seitz (0); Time 23.6.
Shot put-Won by Watson (M);
second, Townsend (M); third, Zarnas
(0); distance, 50 feet, 41/2 inches.
Discus throw-Won by Townsend
(M); second Watson (M); third,
Mitchell (M); distance, 150 feet, 10%/
inches.
Pole vault-Won by Williams (0);
second, Morgan (M) ; third, tie,
Kingsley, Hunn (M) ; height, 12 feet,
9 inches.
Javelin throw-Won by Pettigrew
(O); second, Martin (M) ; third,
Stanton (M) ; distance, 182 feet, 3
inches.
High jump--Won by Albritton (0);
I second, Walker (0); third, Frieden-
berg (M) height 6 feet, 6 inches.
Both Ohio jumpers cleared the
height, but Albritton declared win-
ner on new fewest trial rule.
Broad jump-Won by Stoller (M);
3ecoxrd, Watson (M); third, Smith
(M); distance, 23 feet, 6/4 inches.
American League
Chicago 6, Boston 5.
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1.
Washington 8, Detroit 3.
Cleveland 4, New York 0.
National League
St. Louis 12, New York 5.
Brooklyn 6, Chicago 5.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, rain.
Cincinnati at Boston, rain.

Roger Peckinpaugh
Scouts Player -Son g
At Michigan Game
By TOM PHARES
Three former major league ball
players occupied the two dugouts yes-
terday at the Illini-Wolverine base-
ball game. In the visitors dugout was
Wallie Roettger, Illinois coach,, and
on the home bench were Coach Ray
Fisher and Roger Peckinpaugh, form-
er star shortstop of the Yankees and
Senators whose son is now holding
down third base for the -Michigan
nine.
Although young Walter had a rath-
er unsuccessful day against Pitcher
Ray Poat in particular and the Illini
in general, his illustrious father en-
joyed his first glimpse of the Wol-
verines in action this season. Even
though the highly touted Poat held
Michigan to three runs, Roger be- C
lieved the home boys should have
come out on top.
"Poat looked pretty fast the first
part of the game but I think they
could have beaten him if they had
played good ball," he said. "No, I
haven't seen any other Big Ten games
this season. You see, Lew Fonseca
and I are on tour with our baseball
I film. We started March 2 in Tus-
caloosa, toured through the east and
lately have been in Indiana, Iowa
and Illinois. Since I was in Chicago
I decided to drive over here and see
the game."
Since Peckinpaugh was quite a
figure in major league baseball the
conversation soon drifted into a dis-
cussion of the pennant races.
"The Yankees look pretty good ob-
. served Roger, "but there are four
other teams in there with a chance.
Detroit has been going pretty well
and ought to do better when Rowe
gets back."
Peckinpaugh and Fonseca plan to
go on to Northwestern Monday and
then take 10 days off before showing
their film at Notre Dame.

Freddie Trosko, winner of the
Chicago Alumni Trophy, awardedk
annually to the most outstanding1
freshman gridder, is the triple-
threat back whom Coach Kipke is
planning to install in the running
half-back position next fall.
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