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Connors Corner By C. J. CONNORS I Continued from Page Three is prepared to accept guests for the season. . . . Mrs. Fanny Bennet, widow of the former trainer, "Yonkers," entered Mary Immaculate Hospital, Jamaica, yesterday to be treated for a heart condition. . . . Trainer Jack Skirvin returned from a visit to Nydrie Farm in Virginia and reported that he had turned out G-Two, owned by W. H. Perry, for a year. J The colt suffered a broken bone in his foot in his last start at Jamaica. He also said that he had taken up the two-year-old filly, Melody Miss, to be readied for summer racing. This one will race for Danny Van Cliefs Nydrie Farm. . . . Trainer Dick Handlen checked in from the farm in Delaware with 14 horses that he will race for Foxcatcher Farm this summer. . . . Louis Lazare reported that trainer Bill Hicks had placed Sheilas Double in training and that the youngster would be extensively campaigned in the late summer and fall stake offerings. Jules Schwartz, the big cleanup man who heads the Lincoln Maintenance Co., and. in addition to sweeping up race tracks, ball parks, office buildings and ocean liners, has a go at his own home, was all smiles yesterday. He reported with great glee that Maymark had foaled a colt by Wait A Bit in Virginia and that this momentous event called for more than the usual cigars. Boy bring on the ice cubes. . . . Dr. Alexander Kaye, of the Physicians Hospital, Jackson Heights, N. Y., deserted his patients for the afternoon as he glanced over the starters for the Withers. . . . Trainer Jack Skirvin shipped Jan Peeck to trainer Danny Boswell at Pimlico for racing at that point. . . . Edward Kilroe came over from Aqueduct to help close the stake nominations for that summer meeting. . . . Harry F. Guggenheim plans to leave for Baltimore on Monday and will then journey to his plantation in South Carolina for a few days. He will inspect the cattle and pass upon some trees that the woodsmen are to cut into timber. . . . Judge James Dooley came down from Providence and then decided to stay over to witness the Withers and the other races. Walter M. Jeffords, who was presented with a painting of his champion, One Count, by J. Samuel Perlman, publisher of the Daily Racing Form, reported that Mrs. Jeffords was improving steadily and would be on hand for the latter part of the Belmont Park session. She was on the ailing list earlier in the spring. Mr. Jeffords returned to Philadelphia after Fridays races and reported that Oscar White is pointing One Count for the Suburban . Irving Gushen, liasion man for the HBPA, after several conferences here yesterday, checked out for New England . Phil Iselin and Eddie Bren-nan returned to Monmouth Park after doing some missionary work for that meeting Dr. Leon Levy, of Atlantic City, was among the visitors . . Tim Mara, the football enterpreneur, came out for a look-see and then spent the better part of the afternoon distributing schedules for his Giants at home and away. George Pool, first assistant to John Gaver. is a firm believer in starting them out young. Yesterday he escorted his daughter to the track and quickly taught her the basic rudiments of riding. Miss Pool was mounted on a pony, whose height at the withers, believe it or not, is 30 inches. The diminutive animal, a cross between a Shetland and a West Virginia mine pony, is perfect in every detail and will be turned over to Mrs. R. L. Gerry next week. The pony is a two-year-old and will not grow as he gets older. Even Conn Mc-Creary would drags his feet on the ground if mounted on this one . . . Jack Skinner planed out to Virginia to inspect the horses that he has at his Middleburg Farm. He is due back on Monday . . . Trainer Bill Winfrey said that he would ship Native Dancer and Social Outcast to Pimlico on Tuesday for A. G. Vanderbilt. Jockey Eric Guerin will go down to give the colt his final prep for the big one come next Saturday.
