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Show SPORT LIGHT Next Derby Day Is Long Way Off By GRANTLAND RICE Soon the snow will sweep the ground, Soon the winter winds will blow, As my heart leaps with bound, And my dreams take on a glow. For ahni tha Ji-i That's the way derbies go. Last fall at this date or months later, Ponder would have been 200 to 1. But no Calumet starter will ever get away again at any such odds as 18 to 1. That' S nnA era Where the mutuel window grips, I'll no longer blow my shirt JOn a flock of cockeyed tips. . . . The Winnless Derby of 1950 1 Colonel Matt Winn, for the first time in 75 years, won't be present ""utmy-yai-nM at the Kentucky Derby. But the late colonel's spirit will be with the great crowd and run down the stretch. The 1950 derby can be one of the best of them all if unkind fate doesn't cut in and remove gamble you can make. The Jonei family has done too well In Ken tucky derbies in the past few years to be overlooked again. A Kentucky Derby without Matl Winn will be a strange adventure. Even if you never saw him, you knew the colonel was .there, from 1875 on. To all who knew him, he will still be there in 1950. The Top Three-Year-Old It was generally taken for granted some time back that Ponder would be named the three-year-old of 1949. But after Capot beat Coal-town Coal-town there has been renewed chatter by Greentree supporters. support-ers. They figure that while Ponder whipped Capot In the derby, Capot came back to beat Ponder In the Preakness and the Belmont, two extremely extreme-ly Important tests. They'll also tell yon that Capot had quite a lot to do with Ponder's victory in the derby by killing off Olympia. : Grantland Rice most of the leaders. lead-ers. Among the bet-: bet-: ter possibilities for next May a long way off in horseland we have the following to consider, j Middleground from the King ranch set, Theory and Rearmed Re-armed from Calumet, The Diver, Hill Prince, Curtice, Wisconsin, Guillotine (the Futurity Fu-turity winner), Greek Ship. I Quiz Show, Ferd, Detective and More Sun. Among the many others some unknown may develop de-velop as Ponder was an unknown un-known a year ago at this date. Wisconsin Boy is a grand son of Teddy, and Curtice is a great grandson grand-son of the same able sire. The Diver must certainly be given a big . advance chance. The bay son of Devil Diver is a first class colt in every respect. He has speed and he has shown signs of liking distance. The greatest gamble in racing, or one of the greatest, is the switch from a two-year-old to a three-year-old. At this spot last season. Blue Peter and Mr. Busher were the two leading two-year-olds. Ponder hadn't won a race. But neither Blue Peter nor Mr. Busher had the Ponder ran extremely well in the Lawrence Realization stakes and also in the Jockey Gold Cup. But Capot won the Pimlico Special on October 28. Suppose Capot should win Jim Butler's big Internationa Gold Cup Race? The racing season for 1949 isn't over yet. There are several things that can happen before the finish arrives in connection with the several sev-eral awards to be made. It might be mentioned here that a visit to Baltimore the latter part of October afforded a rare sporting adventure. You got to see the Pimlico Pim-lico Special on a Friday and the Notre Dame-Navy football game on a Saturday. chance to run and there were other good ones who were left out on the big Kentucky day. Just at this spot the leaders must include, Middle-ground, Middle-ground, temporarily resting, Theory from Calumet, The Diver, Hill Prince and Guillotine. It may be that all of these will be present when the derby is run next spring. It may also be that none of them will be present on that date. It also may be that if all are present, some outsider will do most of the running. The Oklahoma Sharpshooter The south and southwest have now taken over the golf situation completely. Sammy Snead, the Virginian, Vir-ginian, is P.G.A. champion. Cary Middlecoff, the Tennessean, is open champion and Charley Coe, from Oklahoma, is amateur champion. The lean, lanky Coe is the latest addition to the list of crown wearers. wear-ers. He comes to the amateur throne room with one of the finest swings in golf. He is over six feet and yet weighs less than 150 pounds |