Show PRANK FRANK K BAKER Albert lbert Anthony thony Baroni is richer than he heas was as two years ago because he had more faith than anybody anybody any any- body dy else Ise in a form former r 3 plater Top Row which climaxed his surprising turf career by winning the recent Santa nta Anita handicap and for the Reno Italian Baroni has been trainer as wen well as owner c of f Top Row He slept on a cot in the the horse for br many nights before the big ig race In fact it was hard to get Top Row out of his sight A few old associates from irom Nevada and this mountain country country coun coun- try sought out their former pal during visits to California with- with ut t success He talked to them over the telephone but had little time for visiting He was too busy getting Top Row ready for the forthe the big race to have much time for entertainment Guards also kept a close vigil over the horse so close in fact that it was generally impossible to get near Top Rows Row's stable without a written pass from Baroni himself l I The story of Baroni and the horse reads like it n page 7 from Horatio Alger Baroli became a race h horse owner l because doctors told him that he ho must work in the open air fc If Jf ho he wanted to live He Hc took Top Row out of f a claiming race at Narragansett Park when it seems no one else recognized v n cd the ability of the tho horse owned by Mrs W. W Plunkett Stewart New York society woman There is a legend nd according to Harry Grayson nationally known sports writer that George Odom trainer of the Stewart stable let th the c cat t out of t the bag regarding Top Rows Row's ability in a moment of unguarded gossip at a dinner party Ji Consequently after Baroni had seen geen h him n run he claimed t the hoss and Odom adorn hasn't spoken to the Nevadan since I j Baroni was born in Lucea Italy and raised on a ranch near Dayton Nev His father was a vegetable grower grower rower young Albert Alber made numerous early morning ng rides down the Comstock lode to Carson City where Fitz- Fitz im ons fought Corbett I Z In time Baroni met and hobnobbed intimately with any o of these figures of the sports and enter entertainment ent world His next step was operating a taxi company in inno Reno Ren no where Jeffries tackled Johnson Later he became engaged in iii the real estate business there came the doctors with a warning A Baroni bought his first horse from front George Wingfield f founder of the famed Neva Nevada a stock farm farni near Reno That J horse Dan Ian Hogan was a failure Not until he had Cross f Bow V killed in Washington by a bolt of lightning and later Virt Virt F. F Bowman did Baroni Barni have a couple of good horses Z These two were followed ed by and then the ill ill- Nellie A. A which had to be destroyed because of leg legi i injuries j uries t t Top Row really is the first class A thoroughbred Baroni has owned He believed in the horse He told everyone that the 5 year old would take the Santa Anita nita handicap and he kept 1 him m out of several preliminary races rather than risk injury to toH A l r H him m i That Baroni may n not have t.-have been keen enough to avoid a a h with narcotic agents in connection with a certain Chicago r rice race track incident two wo years ago is beyond the point Out on bond on i he has emphatically denied he is guilty of doping the Bangtails fe And Top Rows Row's victory with Jockey Wayne Wright of Idaho in the saddle proved that the faith his owner put in him was not misplaced ced I J. J Pointer High J Francis rancis Kretzmeyer captain of th the University of Iowa track quad quad who amassed points in 14 meets last year ac accounted ac- ac counted for 38 in his first two dual meets this season He took the high and low hurdles and broad jump against Grinnell and Chicago and tied teammate Ray Latham in the high jump i Boxing Mech Mechanic 1 Lawrence Stevens of South Africa the British empires empire's l lightweight boxing champion by virtue of a victory over Kid B Berg rg works as a motor car mechanic for 33 a week in Johannesberg Johannesberg Johannes- Johannes b berg rg and has ambitions to own a garage He plans to challenge Tony onT Canzoneri for the world title Jt costs big league e clubs lubs between and to train in Tom Casey easey Chicago Cub pitcher is one o of the best qu quail shots shot in Georgia The rhe Oklahoma have lost only one cie e dual wrestling m meet et sin since e 1921 |