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TWASH I NGT0N PARK NOTES Mrs. John Hertz, represented by trainer Frank Hackett, has completed negotiations with Thomas C. Worden, Chicago jsports-xnan, for the purchase of the contract on jockey Jack Westrope and the Baker, Mont., lad reported to his new employer Saturday. Westrope was the leading rider in 1933 with more than three hundred winners and stood high on the lists last season. Worden has obtained the papers on Don Gray, a promising apprentice who has been riding at Riverside Park, and the lad will report to trainer B. A. Jones Monday. A trainers license has been granted to Miss Hamble Bauer, owner of the horse Platinum Blonde. Miss Bauer thus becomes tie second woman to be so favored in Illinois, Miss Mary Hirsch having been the first last July. Max Sussman, the well-known concessionaire of binoculars on Chicago tracks, received the congratulations of his many friends Saturday over the birth of a daughter during the night at the American Hospital. Mother and daughter were reported doing well. In a change of plans, Edward Haughton Bold William C. to B. Jarvis, who is sending the horse to Omaha. Haughton had intended sending William C. and The Heathen to Bainbridge Park. Although the sixth race Saturday was un- der claiming conditions, owners were not permitted to claim the apprentice allowance, racing-secretary Charles McLennan taking this means of providing greater opportunities for older jockeys.
