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I HIALEAH PARK TURF NOTES f Emmet Hileman is distributing stake blanks for the Washington Park Jockey Club meeting at Homewood, 111., May 23 to June 25. The list includes the 0,000 added American Derby, the nominations for which close March 2. Jockey Charlie Phillips, who injured his left foot in a fall from Rubridge several days ago, reports that an X-ray examination divulged two broken bones. He will probable be. out of the saddle for several weeks. Bert Squires is in Miami as agent for Willis Sharpe Kilmer. For several years Squires was associated with the late John E. Madden as agent. The Hialeah Park stewards have issued an order instructing any jockey wishing to make a claim of foul to pull up at the stewards stand to report the claim before going to the unsaddling enclosure. This will enable the stewards to notify the mutuels department of the claim before the prices are posted and speed up the handling of the case. Jockey S. Hebert has been notified by William Brennan, trainer in chief of the Green-tree Stable, to report at Mrs. Payne Whitneys farm at Red Bank, N. J., to assist in the preparation for the opening of the eastern season. A team of jockeys will play the Volks Girls team, diamond ball champions of South Florida, at Royal Palm Stadium Tuesday evening, February 23, and the proceeds will be turned over to charity. Pete Walls, metropolitan riding veteran, will captain the jockeys team, and Bill Eckert, Pinkerton in charge of the jockeys quarters in Florida and New York, will be the manager. W. F. Flakes of the Hialeah mutuels department is directing the program. William Woollatt, after spending a week in Cuba, returned last night. Woollatt will delay his departure for Toronto until the conclusion of the meeting. Joseph B. Boyle, general manager of the Bowie race course, left for Cuba this morning. He was accompanied by his wife and Mrs. Gadsden D. Bryan.
