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Connors Corner By. "CHUCK" CONNORS 1 1 ■ Chief of Chart Correspondents— J BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 16. — Jimmie Roach, late of the U. S. Navy public relations, but whose main interests are tied up in the N. Y. Times sports department, came up with something new in a double. He called it an inter-planetary one and it resolves about George M. Odom as man and boy 52 years apart. The first part of the double was in 1899 and the culmination was on "Wednesday of last week. The National Stallion Stakes was the .medium, with Pupil and Jet Master as the supp6rting cast. Odom, in 1899, was a beardless youth from down Georgia way who had learned his jockeyship under the late William P. Burch whose two sons, Preston and the late Selby-, developed into top line trainers. Odom was riding the two-year-old named Pupil, the second string of an entry that Green B.Morris sent postward for the running of the. National Stallion, with Modrene, Sam Dogget in the irons, as the one held in highest regard. Modrene finished unplaced with Odom booting home Pupil down the old straightaway over his Royal Highness, Vulcain and 14 others. The race was Worth 4,527 and run in :58% for five furlongs. Jet Master, with Eddie Arcaro in the saddle and in the silks of Joe Eitinger, bounced down the Widener course in :55%. Odom, in recalling Pupils race, pointed out in a humorous manner that his mount was given but slight consideration and that the only ones to gather about him in the paddock were his valet and an assistant trainer. Wednesday, it was different, for Jet Master came up to his ■ engagement a popular choice and a big gallery watched his every move from saddling to walking ring exercise. His five furlongs was a track record and within two - fifths of a second of the worlds record set by the three-year-old Devineress at Epsom Downs in England in 1933. Odom and Arcaro were both confident that had Jet Master been urged in the late stages he could have equalled, if not surpassed, the worlds figure for he won by a half-dozen lengths with speed in reserve. There was no comparison between the two horses, said Odom, for Pupil did not belong in the same race with his present champion. The Belmont Stakes gave Odom another double although *• this one is much younger, being only 34 years apart. He rode Delhi at Morris Park in 1904 and came back in 1938 to saddle Pasteurized. In comparing ihese two, Odom said that if Pasteurized had Delhis temperament he would have been a champion. Well, an inter-planetary double or a century double, they are among Odoms souvenirs. J. W. Nizlek arrived at Jamaica with a draft of horses from Suffolk Downs. The good performer All At Once was turned out on a New England farm for a well deserved rest. . .Trainer Jim Fitzsimmons is recovering from a cold that had him on the side-Continued on Page Forty-Four Connors Corner i . / Continued from Page Seven lines for several days ~. Fred A. Purner, press agent at Santa Anita, came on for this Belmont and spent the better part of his visiting time lauding the stakes and overnight program to be offered for the winter meeting which opens on December 28j..N. K. Whitman, Richmond, Va., racing patron, came up from his home for the Belmont and a few days racing. . .Jockey Conn McCreary will go to Chicago late in July.to handle J. J. Amiels Count Turf in the Arlington classic and Jater in the American Derby . Evan Jackson, who rode Big Bones in Fridays steeplechase offering, is a nephew of Evan shipman, special writer for Daily Racing Form. Jackson won his first race at Woodbine, but was disqualified, for fouling and then on top of that drew a 10-day suspension. . .Tomas Lichanco, of Manila, P. I., is a visitor-here and is interested in the starting gate. He plans to take one back to the Manila Jockey Club course to be installed late this fall. . . Joe Eitingers Jet Master was named for the Prairie State Stakes at Arlington Park by trainer George M. Odom. The colt is an eligible for the Tremont at Aqueduct and in thjs offering may meet the worlds record holder The Pimpernel. Should they clash, that offering will be packed with sheer speed and track records may go into the discard. Charles Kenney, of Coldstream Stud, and Dr. Charles Hagyard came on from the depths of Kentucky for the v big event . . .Alex Bower, of the Blood-Horse, moved in early for his first look at New York racing under the. pari-mutuels . . Brownie Leach planes out for London, England, on Sunday for a look-see .at some racing in the tight little isle . . . Trainer J. P. Devine took over the Tiorses owned by O. Ciresa, Jr., to train. * He also shipped Miss Melisse and Assassinator, which he acquired here for the account of G. L. Smith, to Suffolk Downs. . . .Acting for the Cain Hoy Stable, trainer Moody Jolley sold to M. E. Wilson, of Audufrom, Iowa, the horses Black Cockade, Moon Beam, Humpty Dumpty, Able Mabel and Chorus Girl. The acquisitions will be shipped to Ak-Sar-Ben and there turned over to Cliff Johnson to train. Following that meeting they will be shipped to Centennial Park, Denver, Colo. .Morris Bernstein, the Jamaica contractor, broke a resolution of long standing when he was a Saturday visitor. He had as his guest I. J.* Carp, a St. Louis, Mo., merchandiser. . .William Woodward, master of Belair Stud, was an early arrival and enjoyed the big day. . .Robert L. Gerry was a morning visitor the other morning and spent some time inspecting the horses that George "Maje"Odom has in training for various patrons. . .Walter J. Salmon, of Mereworth Stud, passed on some pertinent facts regarding the yearling vendues for ■ ~ : : ~ " — — — . this summer. . .Fred A. Purner, of Santa Anita, is seeking to induce Jack Amiel to name* his Derby winner, Count Turf, as a supplementary nominee for the Maturity Stakes at that "track. Supplementary entries close five days before the running with a very nominal fee of ten grand, 0,-000 to you. This, by the way, is the last year for supplementary nominations. From now on all eligibles -must be named as yearlings.. Joe Eitinger, to celebrate Jet Masters victory in ±he National Stallion, gave the boys in the press coop a case of wine to slake their thirst andcget ready for the Belmont. We go again and the boys who tab the morning workouts aided and abetted by the PP. students have come up with the following as Mondays selections: BETSY MARIE in the fourth, STONE AGE in the fifth and TAHITIAN in the sixth.
