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WASHINGTON PARK NOTES 4 Ross Deprema is hitting the road in a Some-back effort. He plans to get back into riding action during the Arlington Park meeting. An arrival at Lincoln Fields is E. E. Irby, who brought three horses from Omaha for the old Fox Stable. They are Monon Lad, Fandan and Rich Girl. Robert Xelly, 15-year-old exercise boy in the employ of Robert Mozer, received painful head injuries when the two-year-old Hay Top bolted and threw him Saturday morning at Lincoln Fields. A visitor here for the week-end was Barry Whitehead, racing secretary at the new Del JJar race track in California. He was to leave here tonight for that state. C. E. Davison sent five horses to Riverside Park today in charge of Bruce Davis and apprentice Lloyd Sisler went along to ride them. Jockey Earl Steffen, who came here to ride Shandon Farms Blue Field in the Princess Pat Stakes, left Saturday night for New York. Mrs. Cecil Howard, wife of the horseman, is in a Chicago Heights Hospital in a critical condition following an automobile accident. She was injured Saturday. Billy Meyer, track superintendent at Sportsmans Park, was a visitor at Washington Park Monday. Robert Mozer, who has a number of horses in training here for V. E. Berry, sent Bungler and Marion Burr to Montreal. There they will be taken over by P. Hinphy. Jockey L. "Tex" Wilson, a recent arrival from California, had his first mount of the meeting today. Ernie Kothe has been appointed agent for the stable of Roscoe Goose and will make the riding engagements for apprentice C. Calvin. E. A. Falkenberg registered the horses Cams and Potestas, owned by Mrs. N. L. Litchfield, which he recently brought to Lincoln Fields from Indiana. They had been turned out.
