Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 16 | Phar Lap Found Ill from Ulcers

I. I SCATTERS PINS i J q y- y tr I IiA Claude W W. Parry bowling wizard wiz ard from Ogden is well weH on his way toward winning another title in the state bowling tournament now in irs progress at the Orpheum alleys He came through with games of and for or a n series of In team teRm play night to get a good start in m the therace therace therace race for events all honors which he hel din 1928 He will ro roll in inthe inthe inthe the singles and doubles later this week in a n bid for the singles championship he has won twice already P mr Lap Found III Ill From Ulcers SAN FRANCISCO April 13 UP Chemists and toxicologists lexicologists pursuing three separate inquiries into the death of Phar Lap famous Australian racehorse race racehorse racehorse horse were confronted today by two opposing theories that poison or stomach stomach ach ulcers killed the Red Terror A small amount of arsenic was found in an analysis of internal or organs organs gans but was as not sufficient to cause death University of California chem chern isis reported to David J. J Davis owner of the horse It was presumed the arsenic came camerom from rom spray used on oak trees near Phar Laps Lap's stables in Menlo Park a suburb The poison spray was discovered discovered dis dis- discovered covered by department of agriculture experts An autopsy by city chemists disclosed dis dis' disclosed closed dosed the horse suffered from stomach stomach ach ulcers indicating he was ill m before arriving in the United States from Australia last Jast January January and and that he was vas a sick horse when he won the A Agua ua handicap in March l Experts were ere inclined to believe the arsenic may have aggravated the ulcers ul uJ ulcers cers but that the constitutional ailment nil ail ment was the ultimate cause of death