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1 LAUREL PARK TURF N0TES1 j b Jim Fitzsimmons ha3 decided to leave the two-year-old, Balios, stay in Maryland and start in some of the stakes to be run at Laurel. Len Carver and Donald Yates of Baltimore have shipped their horses to the York, Pa., meeting, which opens on Tuesday. Moro than 100 Maryland-owned thoroughbreds are now quartered at York, according to word sent here by secretary Smyser. Jockey Clarence McCrossen has severed his connection with Mosc Lowenstein and has gone to visit his mother in Rochester, N. Y. McCrossen was expected in time to ride Monday at Laurel. Kingbird and Noras Grace, which have been showing good form on state tracks this fall, will be sent to the York, Pa., session, which opens October 3. , The arm on the starting gate, according to jockeys Bobby Jones, Alfred Robertson, Buddy Hanford, Charlie Kurtsinger and George Woolf, failed to function in the Eastern Shore, which accounts for the horses on the outside of the track failing to get away with the first flight. Tom Daly, official announcer over the amplifiers, departed immediately "after the seventh race for Fairmount Park to resume his duties there on Monday. Twenty Grand is reported to have grabbed his quarters while being breezed Friday. This was responsible for his withdrawal from the Havre de Grace Handicap Saturday afternoon. A fire, which broke out Saturday in the house where the track implements are stored, spread to one of the stables and both structures were destroyed. Willie Brennan reports that Twenty Grand is going along nicely and that he will make his first appearance in Maryland this fall in the Annapolis Handicap, which is scheduled to be run Wednesday. Joe Edward was an arrival from Aqueduct with the good sprinter Happy Scot. Jockeys Bobbie Jones, R. Leischman and E. Steffen were fined 0 each by the starter Saturday, at Havre de Grace, for breaking up the start of the Havre de Grace Handicap. J. "Sammy" Smith was an arrival from New York with The Beasel, Morfair and others in his care. There are thirty-three horses on the schooling list with the adding of Supercharge and Equipoise. Jimmy Magner disposed of three of his horses before shipping Five Oaks here from Hagerstown. H. W. Managuale was an arrival from . Stockbridge, Mass., with False Master. Louis Campbell, of Baltimore, who showed race fans a promising rider in Glen Haines last fall, is now grooming Francis Weir, a 16-year-old lad for his debut next year. Weir, according to Campbell, is one of the finest prospects he ever handled. It is with regret that we announce that "Hacky" Hoffman, popular turfman of Baltimore, was forced to enter the Maryland General Hospital, Monday, for an operation. Maxie Hirsch brought eight horses down from New York, including the good three-year-old Gusto. It is understood that C. V. Whitneys Fall Apple, which was shipped from- Havre de Grace to Red Bank, .N. J., will be converted into a jumper. Bernie Moan is handling W. West, a 102 pound rider, who is under contract to the B. B. Stable. "Whitey" Cunningham was an arrival and will make the engagements for C. Quattle-baum, who rides at 108 pounds.
