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LAUREL PARK TURF NOTES 4 : ; . ; Secretary M. Daiger of the Maryland Jockey .Club reports a big advance sale of club house and private box seats for the meeting which opens Monday. Basil Smith, agent for jockeys George Woolf, Melvin Lewis, as well as agent for Norman Churchs stable, is ill at his home in Laurel. There will be thirty-six bad post actors carried on the schooling list over to Pimlico. William Zakorr arrived from Canada and will make the riding engagements for Frankie Dougherty, Johnny Paradise and Harry Osborne during the Pimlico session, which opens at 1 p. m., Monday. Secretary Mathias L. Daiger of the Maryland Jockey Club sent word Saturday that everything was in readiness for the big charity program to be offered Monday at Pimlico. As the proceeds go to the fund which Governor Albert C. Ritchie is raising for Marylands unemployed, every turfite is asked to do his bit. Before the first race Max Hirsch sent Morton L. Schwartz American Derby and Classic winner, Gusto, along for a smart mile and a quarter in 2:10. The son of American Flag appears to have returned to his best form, the fractions for the move being :25, :51, 1:18, 1:44 and 2:10. Jockey F. Dougherty, who rode with good success during the Canadian racing season, made his initial appearance in the saddle this fall on Maryland tracks when he rode on Saturdays program. Following the final race at Laurel Saturday, Joseph McLennan, who will serve as racing secretary at Hialeah Park, departed for New York, after which he will journey to Miami. His mission at the Florida course is to inspect the plant. John P. Turner reported that he accepted over 100 entries from horsemen at Laurel for the initial program of the Maryland Jockey Club Monday. The entries were later relayed via telephone to F. J. Bryan at Pimlico. H. A. Buck was a visitor of the day in the interest of the election day racing of the United Hunts Association at Belmont Park. He reported that there had been a liberal response to the offerings. He will remain over for the racing at Pimlico Monday. Dick Cotton of Omaha, Neb., who was employed as an exercise boy by Dr. J. Fred Adams of Catonsville, Md., was found dead in his bed here this morning. William Hurley, who has been handling the western division of the Edward Riley Bradley stable, will come East to take over the Kentucky sportsmans horses at Bowie. Head trainer Dick Thompson leaves after the Pimlico session for the Idle Hour Farm in Kentucky, where he will get the Bradley yearlings ready for 1933 racing. Joseph McLennan, racing secretary of the Hialeah Park, Florida, winter meeting, leaves Saturday night for New York to make up the stall allotments. During his absence his son, Charles, will be at Pimlico to take stall and badge applications for the Bowie meeting, which opens November 14. Vincent Treanpr, who acted as steward during the twenty-fours days sport which ended Saturday, leaves Sunday for his home in New York.
