Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-05-17 | Page 12 | War Admiral Backers Get Little for Boosting Him

War Admiral Backers Get Little for Boosting Him By HENBY McLEMORB l alttrf rreaa R porta Writer BALTIMORE, Md., May 17 (UP) Ther. mut b. somrthing to this hors. sense, after all. Otherwise, how are you going t. explain the doings af this War Admiral, a long-eared article with mane and tall wha. In tha brief space of eight days, banked himself him-self belter then SluO.OuoT And not eight long working day, lthr On six ef tho eight days b rested completely, and aa the other two ho waa behind hi desk, to to speak. Just a lltll more than four minutes. min-utes. It' hard to da that well on a counterfeit machine. But 1 don't suppoae we should begrudge him hie winnings, because h baa evolved th perfect sen. me for getting rich. Using common aid horse sense he haa figured aut that tha foolproof method of winning win-ning all tha race and all th money la to bo la front from flag-fall flag-fall to finish. H haa let nothing deter him. In hi four races this year tha Kentucky derby, the Cheaapeake. aa overnight race, and the I'reakneas he haa made every poet a winning ana. Thirty-seven rival thoroughbreds hv had a shot at th Admiral and only two of them ever led him by a ttep. In the derby Heelfly led him for IB yards, and In th Freak nea a brash filly named Jewel Dorsatt waa a nose ahead of him for two or three Jump. Outside of those two fleeting momenta the races have been all his. And our guess i that all th other race ha goea In a a three-yar-old will be bis. He haa tha speed, th power, the courage, and th love for running that stamp th great racer. Unless something I wrong with him and this tan't likely, like-ly, because bs Is blessed with sound-no sound-no the rich Belmont atake June S will bo at bis mercy. Th Belmont Bel-mont la at a mile and a halt, and ail hla competitor, with the possible pos-sible exception of Pempooa. couldn't go that distance vea If thy had Pullman tickets. The hand-over-fist manner In which War Admiral It making money la making It very difficult lnded for hi backer to make any. The beat yeu could get on hua here Saturday waa 1 to 1 which la Just a shade this aide of paying pay-ing for tho privilege of batting on him. On mor victory, and hi price will be so short thst whsn you go to cash a ticket those gentlemen gen-tlemen in the cages will give you cigar coupons or soap wrappers. And what will those of us who already have a baseball suit, a catcher's mask aad a bicycle, do with them?