Show BOLD L VENTURE PLA PLACED ON Derby Victor Given Chance To Win Again I By Dy JOE WILLIAMS i Special eSpecial to The T Telegram legram I BALTIMORE Md May 15 They 15 They I are arc going to put a race horse on the spot tomorrow Tho The horse is Bo Bold d dV V Venture He won the derby two V weeks eks ago He beat Brevity the national favorite the horse that be beaten The derby was a hard race to win It always is Bold Venture took the lead early held It fought off oft all competition and won To the casual observer it seemed he won because he was the best horse horse horse-he he just ran and ran and ran and at at- atthe the end he Was in front Nothing in sports ports Is BO so simple a us as a n horse race raco to the tho casual ob ob- ob- ob server sener The horses start They flash past the tho press box they make the first turn they go up the backstretch they make the far turn they como come Into tho the stretch thc they win or they lose We now Come to the Preakness the race of tomorrow Bold Venture Venture Venture Ven Ven- ture is in the race Brevity The Tho chance to determine which is the better do doesn't exist This is not Bold Ventures Venture's fault He l is' is in the therace therace therace race he lie has has' accepted c the chalI challenge Brevity isn't in the race Why he isn't is is' a question only his owner can answer Mr Joe E. E Widener has squawked very loudly about the many deplorable things that happened happened happened hap hap- to his horse Brevity In tho the mail moil today Joday came a recital of Mr 1 I misery as detailed to toa toa I a n. sporting editor In Louisville wl with the implication that if t certain tain changes in connection with itJi the starting of the derby are not made blade his stable will not be represented in future races The probability of anybody changing chang chang- ing the running of the derby to suit the fancy of Mr Widener or anybody anybody any any- body else Is Js too remote to warrant l lengthy discussion The derby has become a mad scramble for all all- American racing glory glory glory-a a mile and anda a quarter sprint sprint and and I question if it ever again will be subjected to orderly proc processes But in the main a race is a race and a break is a break And this brings us back to Bold Venture the winner of the derby Brevity was jammed at the post in this r race ce So was Bold Venture the long shot After a mile had been run the two colts came together Bold Venture was teas in front front- It was up to Brevity t to catch him He couldn't at at least he lie didn't And when he the knowing horsemen scoffed They said the best horse was beaten for this reason reason rea rea- son lion and for that reason Its It's too bad they arent aren't g going ing to come to together together together to- to gether again tomorrow in the Preakness But as lh ve said this Is no fault of Bold Ventures Hes He's in the therace race Brevity isn't The reason rea- rea son Jon he isn't is that his owner didn't think he was good enough to run in the derby and the Preakness Bold Ventures Venture's chief rivals appear appear ap ap- ap pear to be Granville which lost his rider in the Kentucky derby start time one-time winter book favorite favorite favorite fa fa- for tor the derby who derby who was withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn from the Blue Grass classic Ho He Did seventh in the derby Grand Slam twelfth in the derby field of fourteen Teufel Teufel- Wood Memorial winner who ho finished eighth In the derby and Colonel E E. R. R Bradleys Bradley's Bow and Arrow winner of three straight races The other probable entries are Jean Bart Memory Book Snark Transporter Knight Warrior and Swashbuckler Knight Warrior and Swashbuckler are the doubtful starters |