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Linus ("Pony") McAtee, 29. is a jockey. Nature had made him dark and small—but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason:

"I was asked to gallop horse after horse every morning during the training hour. It took most of my strength away from me. I had no strength left to ride with during the afternoon. My riding became bad. We lost races which it seemed we should have won. I was riding the best horses, but couldn't win with them and I was blamed for the defeats. But I was still asked to gallop horses every morning. It was either quit Whitney or become a bum as a rider and so I quit Whitney!"

And so it was another Jockey, Clarence Kummer, who was hired to ride Mr. Whitney's Whiskery in the Kentucky Derby. But Kummer was recently suspended at Pimlico for rough riding. Mr. Whitney, forthwith, turned to Jockey McAtee with a "won't-you-come-back." Jockey McAtee came with a light heart and a light body.

Half of the race was over last week, and Whiskery was looking like one of those who also-ran. Far ahead were Jock of Publisher Edward B. McLean's stable and Osmond of Joseph E. Widener's and a dozen other three-year-olds. Then Jockey McAtee crouched low and hugged; Whiskery began to whisk until he whisked across the finish line, a nose ahead of Osmond. Jock was third.

Mr. Whitney earned some $51,000 and his first Kentucky Derby victory in 12 years. Jockey McAtee earned some $10,000 and a permanent position at the Whitney stables.

Many people witnessed the Derby — 75,000 to be approximate. Among them were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who used to be a jockey; Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, who presented Mr. Whitney with a golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators will be arrested. Derby Day parties must be dry."