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§m9 J ► r Garden State Notebook I ■ ■ By FRED GALIANI Pen and Pencil Club Meets Today Sessions Produce Likely Debates James, Cotter, Tobe First Guests GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 2. — The open season for racing personalities is on; open season in the sense j t i * t J J that every Monday through the spring meeting three participants of the sport in some phase will be under the gun at the weekly racing clinic at the famous old Pen and Pencil Club in Philadelphia. These sessions are round table affairs at which members of the press, radio and TV throw questions at the , j , j ■ J I t : i 1 i i I i ; r I 1 | t j s guests. No questions are barred and sometimes the affairs become quite lively. This weeks trio on the receiving end will be Basil James, leading rider of the country in 1936; Jimmy Cotter, James agent, and announcer Morris Tobe. I got a couple of questions for Tobe. How do you pronounce Kamehameha, Peleliu and Frenabilbepa? One afternoon a couple of years ago a friend of Tobe told him he had a hot horse and was dashing over to the track to play him. "Who is it?" asked Tobe. "Gulloti-ney," was the answer. Minutes later, after some research, Tobe figured out the good thing was Guillotine. Ted Dooley, one of the placing judges, finally got his car from Norwalk, Conn., where he had to leave it for repairs on a trip down here. The vehicle burned out a bearing on the way. Those Maxwells have a tendency to do that, Ted. . John Bond, of the HBPA, is flying to Suffolk Monday to confer with Frank M. South, executive secretary of the horsemens organization. . .Randall Park stake blanks are available in the racing secretarys office. Ten stakes, headed by the 0,000 Buckeye Handicap, will be run at the Ohio course. . .Unusual sight these mornings is jockey Joe Culmone out bright and early working horses . . . Lennie Litwak, track superintendant at Aqueduct, garbed in a bright red vest, was down to get a look at the new paddock. He was accompanied by trainer Lucien Laurin, who saddled Petal in the Betsy Ross Stakes. Laurin, who has piled up plenty of mileage commuting around three tracks where his strings are running, has kind of curtailed his activities to a smaller circle. Down to New York and here. Peleliu, who carried Henry Block to his first riding victory, is named for an island in the Pacific where Phil Goodwin, the horses trainer, saw considerable action with the Marines. Over 60 per cent of the forces in actien at the battle of Peleliu were casualties .... Jimmy Stout came through with his first victory of the meeting yesterday and as he was taken into the winners circle was greeted with an Eddie Arcaro ovation — boos mingled with applause. He then got his second winner in the last race . . . Joseph M. Roebling was out to see his South Point run in the Cape May Purse yesterday, but the horse was a disappointing choice ... Frank "Downey" Bonsai returned to Pimlico after saddling Shadow Boxer. . .Frank Leatherbury, part owner of the Harborvale Stable, was out for the afternoon. He hails from the deep south of Mobile, Ala. Young Roger Conlon, who rode the first winner of his career yesterday, is an 18-year-old lad from Flushing, L. I., under contract to the Brookmeade Stable for whom he has worked for a couple of years. War Command, a Brookmeade horse, was the seventh mount of Con-Ions career and the boy rode a cool race, setting the pace throughout the race and turning back repeated challenges . . . Richard Starks return to the saddle was temporarily delayed when the lad was in a bad auto accident last week. Stark, who was just discharged from service in February after two years, had joined the stable of L. J. Stephan and was all set to ride at the meeting. Discharged from the hospital the other day, he is still suffering from cracked ribs, broken nose and other bruises. Trainer W. A. Croll, Jr., will send Blue Stone Farms War Phar to Pimlico for the five and a half furlongs Baltimore Spring Handicap on May 16. War Phar was off poorly in the recent Camden Handicap, the first time that he dwelt at the start, ac cording to Willie. CtoII has raced War Pha. at the distance of the Spring Handicap Continued on Page Forty-Four Garden State Notebook By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two only twice and the colt set a record both times, once at Atlantic City and again at Gulfstream. . .Frank Rosen, owner of the Palatine Stable, reports that the good sprinter Woodchuck will be back in action I in the fall. The son of Pasteurized is at j Mrs. McLennan s farm in Maryland. Racing will get an assist from Gim-I bels, in Philadelphia, which is featuring a window display of jockey silks, whips, I bridles and other racing equi* m»nt . . Willie Woerner checked in from Lincoln ! Downs with his one-horse stable, Secnav. He disposed of three other horses at the Rhode Island track . . Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Weil, owners of the good handicap horse, Ken, winner of last years Trenton Handicap, motored over from Pimlico for the races . Jockey John "Red" Pollard made his first appearance under silks yesterday and finished second both times.
