Zurich Herald, 1952-05-08, Page 6ri`,(c9r
TNECalvert SPORTS COM
ety &met 5ierfadoot
e THERE IS ALWAYS drama and thrills
a-plently in the yearly renewal of the
Kentucky Derby, because thrills, drama
and the Derby go hand-in-hand, a trium-
virate of tradition. It may be the thrill of
a winning favorite. It may be the drama of
a rank outsider roaring down the historic
stretch at Churchill Downs, in the Run for the Roses.
But no matter what the thrills, 1 doubt if any result, any
development will equal for sheer throat -catching drama what hap-
pened on May 17, 1924, the fiftieth running of the Derby which
is not even a Derby. For that was the day when through the
Derby crowd there walked to the judges' stand a woman in mourn-
ing, amid the wild cheers of the multitude, to receive the token
of victory.
That was the day Black Gold won the Derby, and this is the
story behind it.
Black Gold was owned by Mrs. R. M. Hoots, widow of an
Oklahoma oil man who had gone broke in his search for that very
thing for which he named his horse: black gold. Disappointed,
discouraged, he failed in health and died.
In the waning days of his life, all Hoots and his family had
was the horse—Black Gold. They campaigned it north and south,
won some lesser races, termed "Derbies," with the black son of
Black Toney, but racing against the brilliant performers who
carried the colors of millionaire owners, of famous breeding farms
of the Whitneys and Bradleys and Cochranes and Sinclairs, Black
Gold was rated as having a scant chance for the Derby. Not, at
least until a few days before when he won the Derby Trial
impressively.
The legend is that when Hoots realized his days were num-
bered, he exacted a promise from his wife that Black Gold should
have a chance for high stakes—a chance in the Kentucky Derby,
if for no other reason than reward for his honest performances.
So, in 1924, the widow took the horse to Churchill Downs.
There was no trumpet to herald his arrival. It was more like an
outcast trying to break into high society.
After all, Black Gold was a campaigner from the small tracks
—out in the sticks—so they thought, as the field went to the post.
But two minutes later when the field carne under the wire, it
was Black Gold which showed the way, beating out Chilhower
from the rich Gallaher Stable by half a length in a driving finish.
And the men of millions had to make way for the widow of an
oil man who died broke, when the path was opened to the platform
for the presentation of the trophies and the roses, while the band
played "My Old Kentucky Home."
Your comments and suggestions for this column will be welcomed
by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge St., Toronto.
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longs to the genus Lilian.
Scootermotorboat—•A smart motor -scooter owner showed sea -
minded folk at the Milan, Italy, Industry Pair that they needn't
worry about buying a boat if they own a scooter. He fastened
his on a catamaran hull, fixed so that the spinning rear wheel of
the scooter move two wheels (array) projecting through the
platform. These in turn, more the propeller*
cs vq S3bv r
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Jockey Joke—Looking like a bona fide contortionist, Jimmy Breck-
ons smiles and hangs on to what are actually a fellow jockey's
boots and legs.
GREAT GOLD RUSH OF 1898
STILL "` EMEMBEREP BY OLD-TIMERS
When recently, demolition men
tore down yet another of Dawson
City's log cabins they discovered
under the floorboards gold dust
worth over $5,000.
It dated from the days when 45,-
000
5;000 men and women struggled over
mountain ridges, shot the rapids of
the mighty Yukon River, and clam-
bered through bog and over bare
rock in the greatest gold rush in
history—the Klondyke Rush of '98.
It slipped through the fingers of
rip-roaring men who paid for their
drinks in gold dust -- men like
Dangerous Dan McGrew and Soapy
Smith, Siwash Carinack, and the
Indian Skookum Pete, Bull Ball-
antyne, and Charlie Benguelesta
and others.
Dangerous Dan lived only in the
mind'of the poet Robert Louis Ser-
vice; Soapy Smith was shot down
in a gun -battle with law officers;
Siwash and Skookum are dead. But
Bull Ballantyne and Charlie Ben-
guelesta, and many another old-
timer of the '98 rush are alive, and
still looking for gold along the
creeks that flow from Solomon's
Dohme into the Klondyke River.
A correspondent now back in
Britain, .who recently talked with
them, says; "They have a far -away
look in their eyes and gold -fever in
their brains. Once a hell raising
town, Dawson City is to-day"but a
shadow, its log cabins dilapidated,
its streets peopled by old men who
"came up the Yukon" fifty -odd
years ago in answer to the cry
"GOLD 1"
At night they meet in the Flora
Dora Saloon, where Diamond -
Toothed Gertie a n d Klondyke
Katie (now in her eighties) danced
the can -can.
"I remember Christie Johnson
offering Cecily Marion her weight
in gold if she'd marry him," says
old Charlie Benguelesta. "They
stood over there, under them gold
letters F -L -O -R -A D -O -R -A."
Ed Andersen, another old -tinier,
recalls what happened when Swift-
water Gates struck it rich. "He was
a dishwasher," he says, "but when
he hit pay -dirt he bought a top hat
and strutted like a peacock.
"Another lucky one was Harry
Gleave. Harry came in with one
dollar in his pocket and an axe
over his shoulders, struck gold,
won the Flora Dora over a game of
poker, and made a fortune."
Ed himself was both lucky and
unlucky. He panned thousands of
dollars' worth of gold dust in two
days, but somebody hit hint over
the head with a champagne bottle,
since , when he has not been able
to remember where his claim was!
Still Panning
Such are the stories you could
hear in the Flora Dora Saloon,
now renamed the Royal Alexander
Hotel.
The town's social life centred on
the saloon. In a conspicuous place
on the bar were scales for weigh-
ing gold dust. One bar -room at-
tendant gathered enough dust from
the floor sawdust to buy himself a
rich mining claim.
Fortunes were lost in gold rou-
lette and faro, and what the gambl-
ing -room didn't get was spent on
drink and the dance -hall girls.
Once the fourth largest town in
Canada, Dawson's population to-
day is not above 450 men,, women,
and .children, and on every side" is
evidence of the Gold Rush days in
which it still lives.
The fire -engine standing on n
plot of land near one of the shops
looks like a Thermos flask on
wheels—it must be 50 years old.
Children clamber over the stage
coach in which the fabulous can-
can girls, the .nun, Mother Mary
Mark, and men like Bull Ballan-
tyne and E. K. Clark rode between
their cabins and "the city."
To -day E. K. Clark lives, in a
cave on Bonanza Creek, where
two men trade the strike that set
the Yukon aflame in '98. "He's 76;
and he hasn't struck it richt yet,"
said Bull Ballantyne. "And he
does his gold panning on his knees
—because his kgs are paralysed,"
A big man is Bull 13al1antyite.
They say he carried a piano over
the White Pass on a sledge and
floated it up the Yukon River on
a raft. To -day he 'does odd jobs
and tinkers with a 1917 Ford. Old-
er by six years is the car in which
Jim Diamont drives you to the
airstrip when you leave.
"See That Hill?"
The mining officials drive big,
shining American cars; there is a
school for their children, a church,
a hospital, a few shops, a jetty for
the stern -wheeler paddle -boats that
chug -chug up the Yukon with
freight. And there is a Royal Can-
adian Mounted Police H.Q., where
an old-timer named Jimmy Dines
minds the telephone.
But just the same Dawson City
lives in the past.
"See that hill, mister?" says
Charlie Clark. "That's called Sol-
omon's Dome. The Mother Lode
of gold is in there somewhere. No
one's found it yet. And when some-
one does find it, you'll see a rush
such as has never been seen be-
fore." Now in his eighties and a
little tottery on his legs, Old Char-
lie Clark still wanders off looking
for his bonzana. "I'11 strike it one
day," he tells you.
Charlie came in with old Moth-
er Mary Mark, Superior of the
hospital and convent near the
R.C.M.P. post.
Now in her late seventies, she
talks in the terrns—one hears in
the Flora Dora—about striking it
rich, about pay -dirt and grub-
stakin'.
Our correspondent arrived at •the
hospital just as an old-timer by the
name of John Donoghue died.
Mother Mary Mark drew the sheet
gently up over his head and said:
"He's going outside for the first
time since we both came, in 1898.
But I'm sure his spirit will return
to the Klondyke."
Survives Ordeal—This photo of
Father Robert W. Greene, radio-
ed from Hong Kong, China, to
London, shows the Roman Cath-
olic priest as he described an
11 -day "nightmare" he spent
under Chinese Communist ar-
rest. Accused of spying, he was
threatened with death several
times, but finally expelled.
MYSTIFIED
Over in England, two cockneys
were riding up to London on the
morning train when they spied a
dignified old party on the bench
opposite immersed in his morning
'Tinges.' `Blimey," said one in
awe, "it's the Archbishop of York."
('You're cuckoo," scoffed the other.
After a treated discussio>!1 they bet
a quid on it. "Only way to find
out," said the first. "I'11 ask 'im."
Re poked the old party vigorous-
ly in the back and said, "Beg par-
' don, elate, but, to settle a het,
are you not the Archbishop of
York?" The old man mit down his
paper angrily and said very
tinetly, "What the blank blank do
you mean by bothering nit this
way? Buzz off, you blank blank
blame, before I pull the bell -cord."
The coctney resumed his seat
with a puzzled air and admitted,
"I still ttunno whether it's the
archbishop or not, 'E wouldn't tell
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ISSUE 19 — 1952