Show sPORTS PORTS MIRROR M. y JOHN MOONEY T Telegram Sports Editor Eddie Arcaro considered by many to be the best horseman in inH ine H e country today must be getting a bad case of ot the thc screaming whee- whee Kentucky Derby classic nears Fory For days as Saturdays Saturday's lea es eI these y Lord Boswell Arcaro has settled on as his mount for the Saturday run ron for the roses and Eddie cant can't but recall the thc 1942 4 s I Derby where he faced a similar situation to this years year's choice of three Main Chance farm fann horses as his mount Back in 1942 the i I Green Tree stables had two Derby horses Devil Diver and Shut Up Eddie being the ther r No 1 contract rider for tor the stable chose Devil Diver and finished sixth Idaho's Warren War War- x ren Wright was given second pick of Shut Up and won the Derby Arcaro thus delayed his big chance to become the first rider In Derby history to ride three winners z I in the Churchill Downs classic I k Rarely does docs such an opportunity knock twice but now four years later Arcaro I comes up as the Main Chance stables stable's No 1 I boy and the three Main Chance entries are aref I f favored to win Just which one though Is v Arcaro's worry Knockdown Perfect Bahrain Bahram I Or Ort t John Mooney j Lord Boswell Arcaro seems to feel Lord BIs Is the best bet to date Knockdown won the Santa Anita Derby and band beat Star Pilot every time they tangled Star Pilot In turn was the 1945 juvenile champion and futurity winner Lord Boswell showed to advantage the other day In winning the Blue BlueGrass Grass stakes with Arcaro up Colony Boy Doy was tho highest priced yearling in the Main Alain Chance string and ho he beat bent some of the best year olds in the bus business in California last winter o er the theo mile o route but he isn't going Perfect Bahram Bah ram is a puzzler v Which to choose Its It's strictly up to Arcaro and you jou can bet hes he's thinking It over ft J tr Should Arcaro guess right and should the M Main at n Chance horse Lf his choice win the Derby he would break the way three-way deadlock tween between himself Isaac Murphy and Earl Sande for jockeys who have haven iron n three Derbys 3 f Murphy the great little colored jockey started off ort the strings by y riding Buchanan to the wire in the 1884 Derby but only after Considerable pressure had been brought to bear to force him to ride he e bucking Buchanan Murphy had ridden the horse to victory at ashville but was almost killed by the horse He refused to ride ilm m m. again but Cottrill and Guest the owners threatened o have Murphy barred unless he rode so he reconsidered and won y two lengths Up on Rile Riley RUey in tho tiro 1890 Derby Murphy urphy brought the the longshot from last place through the heavy track at the head f the stretch to win in easily by two lengths Murphys Murphy's third triumph me aboard Kingman in the 1891 Derby This was 88 the called so-called turtle derby Only five horses raced and each Jockey had orders Ho o let someone else set tho the pace For the mile the can- can ered along like Uke ca alry troops on review re and then at the head of Khe he e stretch Murphy l jumped ahead with Kingman and ho he wan uon by a In the tho the slowest Derby on record E I EI Next came Earl Sande who brought the to 18 i shot Zev home fee e winner in the 1923 Derby Zev was booted from the gates and was wase wase lie e e horse to beat all the way as he won by a length over Martin- Martin tele le Ie Sandes Sande's s 's second winner winner was Flying Ebony in 1925 He started fast relinquished the lead Ita to Captain Hal and then outraced the bader der as he tired down the stretch V Gallant Fox gave Sande his final claim to Derby immortality js he won easily in 1930 It was this race that inspired Damon Runn Run- Run fen n to write a handy guy like Sande booting these winners lorae me J r J Arcaro booted Lawrin an 8 1 shot home first in 1938 1958 riding a nicely paced race to win ln b by a length a 1 3 won for Arcaro caro in 1941 IDU going the distance easily And then Eddie wound p ip his triple crown aboard Hoop Jr In 1945 to win the studded rose-studded for his owners f tl tE The race raco this year looms as a shoo shoo-in for tor the Main Chance inns s but Arcaro's Arcaro s only worry seems to be which horse to pick matters little that Devil Diver subsequently bore out Arcaro's as a better horse than Shut Up The fact tact remains that had the big chance to clinch the Derby diadem once before ad II d blew it T f. Will wm this be the time Well VeIl plenty of dollars will be riding on the orse se a o of Arcaro's Arcaro s choice and all of ot It isn't because of the horse horse- either f |