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______________ Connors j Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Chief of Chart Correspondents BELMONT PARK, Elmont. L. I., N. Y.. June 21. — Today was moving-day so it was good-bye Belmont, hello Aqueduct. These ______________ happenings happenings are are taken taken happenings happenings are are taken taken in stride today, with no confusion, upsets or what have you. The horse colony in New York is generally lo- ■ cated for the season at J either of the three tracks and the racers J are vanned dver for engagements at other £ points. The "tote" de- J partment has some heavy heavy moving, moving, the the heavy heavy moving, moving, the the units that deal out the tickets to the cus- J tomers, electrical equipment and etc., while J the racing department, including the state t racing commission, move over their files j and data pertaining to the meetings. The H. M. Stevens Co., Inc., will close up at Belmont Park tonight and the crew wends . their way to the new scene the following day. This is brought about due to the fact that the equipment in the kitchens, dining rooms, lunch counters is based permanently at each track. The starting gates present ! no problem for an additional one is moved through the streets during the night time , when traffic is at its lowest ebb. A special permit must be obtained to transport the ] gate and the machine is festooned with red lights to alert any driver that caution must be used. The parking lot peonle pile their stanchions and rones in trucks and in no time they are ready for business the , next day. Belmont Park enjoyed a sood meeting:. the play was up, and the officials at , Aqueduct are sanguine that the trend will continue at their meeting. The grounds are in good shape and everything is in readiness. Aqueduct masted the house flag today, to celebrate the victory of Ogden Phipps Busanda in the Top Flight at Belmont. The track for the first time in years and years staged a miniature celebration when one of its most resnected citizens, Jim Fit7simmons, led the list of trainers at the Nassau County course . Lennie Litwak, the new track superintendent at Aqueduct, who is a graduate of the Neil Boyle School, has what he calls a good racing strin. His oninion was borne out when several of , the stake candidates from Jan**-* ! nd j Belmont were vanned over to get the feel of the strip. Jet Master, Joe Eitingers outstanding colt, blazed over the Aqueduct strip the other morning at high speed with trainer George Odom waving him down. He goes tomorrow in the Tremont Stakes against five opponents. For a brief period this juvenile event loomed up as one of the big attractions in this area for it oromised a meeting between the Florida champion at the worlds record holder, The Pimoer-nel. However, it appears that the meeting of these colts will now be deferred until the Jamaica session or Saratoga Springs meeting at the latest. To celebrate the ooenin°: at Aqueduct, president Cyrus S. Jullien will be host at a pre-race luncheon. Among his guests will be F. Skiddy von Stade, Amory Haskel. who is coming un from Monmouth Park; John C. Clark, Mr. and I Mrs. John A. Morris, Dr. and Mrs. E. P. I Kilroe, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Morrison, . Judge and Mrs. Blakely, Mr. and Mrs. K. I j ! Wiggins. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Kilroe and j Miss Margaret Ann Jullien. Preston M. Burch will decide next week i relative to shipping the Brookmeade Stables Greek Ship to Hollywood Park for the Gold Cup. Should Burch decide in the affirmative the horse will be flown . . Lawrence Lewis, of Richmond, Va., i came up from his home for the final days of the meeting and the opening of Aqueduct. Mrs. Anne Clare, track superintendent at Saratoga Springs, was on hand for the windup. She predicts a good meeting at the upstate track . . Jockey Warren Mehrtens has been engaged to ride Walter M. Jeffords Yildiz in the Kent Stakes at Delaware on Saturday Trainer George Riola shipped the Putnam Stables Combat Boots to Delaware Park for the Kent . D. J. Falcone vanned Cacique, Warrior Prince and What to Monmouth for racing at that track Jimmie Ritchie shipped Sneak to Suffolk Downs for several engagements at that oval. . Sam Lewis, one of the veterans of the old oral days, made his second visit of the year. Royal Martin, master of the Wood vale 1 Farm, was on hand Wednesday afternoon. ■ He came on from Washington, D. C, where he spent several days on business . . George 1 D. Widener, top man at Belmont Park, was host at a koffee clatch to the visiting fire-Con tinued on Page Thirty-Nine Connors Corner Continued from Page Five men from the press box . . . Mrs. Dodge Sloane, mistress of Brookmeade Stable, was an early arrival for the final day of the meeting . . . Jockey Eddie Arcaro will fly out to Arlington Park to ride Miche, owned by Mrs. John Payson Adams, in the Equipoise Mile on Saturday. He is due back at Aqueduct on Monday . . . Frangine, the daughter of Foxglove and La Mome, who was bred in South America, undergoes part of her training bareback. She is owned by the Cuban Star Stud Regina. Grantland Rice, who is better known as "Granny," top sports columnist and a member of the New York Turf Writers Association, will have a scholarship named for him at Columbia University. The fund is to memorialize Grannys 50 years of distinguished and notable attainments in newspaper work and sports reporting. The donor whose name was withheld by request expressed the desire that the Community Trust make an annual award of a Rice fellowship in journalism. . J. C. Hauer shipped Aris Mona and other horses he had here to Arlington Park near Chicago . . A division of the Maine Chance Farm is due to move west to Arlington Park for that meeting . . . Track superintendent Boyle at Belmont has some work lined up to ready the grounds for the Night of Stars on June 30. This extravaganza is for the building fund for a new Nassau County hospital . . . Trainer Will Post reported that he had the two-year-old Ceremonious and the three-year-old Beale Street altered. The selections for the opening Aqueduct are: HAPPY DEVIL in the second, STUNTS in the fifth and JET MASTER in the sixth.
