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ii ....... ... .. . . . ,. ,.m j , 1 Garden State Memos — — — By FRED GAL1ANI * Garden State Lures Many Visitors Track Is Popular With New Yorkers Daily Average Attendance Soaring GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 21. — Last week-end a record number of patrons came to this track by bus and daily daily the the amount amount of of ii ....... ... .. . . . ,. ,.m • | . daily daily the the amount amount of of cars bearing Empire State license plates grows. John Madala, directof of safety at Garden State reports an increase of about 100 per cent in New York cars. The Madala service keeps a tabulated account of cars from the bordering states, and breaks down down the the Jersey Jersey count count ; down down the the Jersey Jersey count count according to counties. The check Tuesday showed 250 autos from New York and figuring about two and a half persons per auto the total from New York comes up to 625 people for a week day. A year ago the daily average for a week day was 150 vehicles. This does not include the busses or trains, it being impossible to determine whether the fans on the Philadelphia race train come from New York or Philly. The capacity of the parking lot is 13,000 cars and Saturdays the problem is trying to straighten out traffic, so that the check of out of state license plates is foregone in the rush of things. Where New York patronage has jumped 100 per cent, Delaware trade, according to the car count, has climbed 400 per cent over last season. All of which has helped Garden State set an an all-time record of a daily average attendance of better than 21,000 per day. Joe Culmones 20-month old daughter Joanne is expected to leave our Lady of » Lourdes Hospital in Camden next week. She was badly burned a couple of weeks ago when hot coffee spilled on her. Fortunately she will have no scars from the mishap. Though she is less than two years old, Joe says she talks as well as a four-year-old . . . John "Red" Pollard accepted his first mount yesterday since hurting his foot at the starting gate last week and eame through with a rousing victory on Calater. That gives him two winners for the meeting, both on the same horse. Chick Abbott, commissioner of public works in Camden, was out telling the boys about his fishing trip last Sunday with owner Mickey Slifkin. They caught two fish and 22,000 gnats. . .There has been a moderate change in the ruling concerning the broadcasting of prices over the radio. Henceforth the payoff across the board on the winning horse only will be allowed, and that only on a race that is broadcast. . . The three-year-old Blue Nancy was claimed for the fourth time yesterday in less than a month and wound up with the same stable that started her her. On April 23, Duntreath haltered the filly from Blue Stone Farm. Four days later Potato Chip Farm reached in and grabbed her and Duntreath came back to retake her on May 14. Yesterday Blue Stone returned to the picture and took her offt Duntreath. Although she wasnt a winner for any of her last four owners, she was in the money each time to earn a check. A total of 0,000 was involved in the multiple claiming transactions for Blue Nancy. R. Cramer shipped six horses and a pony to Jamaica . . . Johnny Wiepert, Jr., returned to New York after saddling Lily -Ann Stables Cable Bug yesterday... Jockey Glenn Lasswell flew home to California to spend his enforced vacation as meted out by the stewards. He will return in time for the Delaware Park meeting. . . John Morris, president of the TRA, and Spencer Drayton, executive secretary of the same outfit and president of the TRPB, were down for the afternoon. . . "Ty" Sheas final issue of the condition book has rolled off the press and is being distributed to horsemen . . . Arthur Hoffman, administrative director of the sprawling Jersey City medical center, came over from the American Hospital Associations convention in Atlantic City for a days sport. ■r Jim Kittson, the concessionaire from the Rehoboth Beach, Del., boardwalk, was over getting in some practice for Delaware Parks coming session and visiting his friend Sheriff McNicholl, of Charlotte, N. C With Garden State outhandling New York so many times in recent weeks, one wag observes that while New York may have the big apple and Florida the big orange, Garden State has the big melon. . .Trainer Carl Continued on Page Forty Garden State Memos By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two Hanford came up a loser the other day when he was driving down the New Jersey turnpike and was struck from the rear by another motorist, causing considerable damage to his car. J. J. Kelly, a former HBPA official in New England, is at Garden State in quest of horses to take to New England for a campaign on that circuit. Considerable camaraderie was shown by the association when they mailed out their free post cards the other day. Someone slipped in an Atlantic City race course card and it went along with the others as gesture of good will The Philco distributors of the greater Philadelphia area held their annual junket at the track today, 450 of them coming out for the afternoon. One of the features of the outing is a pig in the poke Daily Double affair. Nine hundred dollars of Double tickets are brought at random, with each member of the group grabbing one in the hope that it might be the payoff ducat. Bertha Banna returned to Providence, R. I., after spending a week-end in New Jersey renewing old acquaintances. . Jerry Bastiaanse, maitre de horse park, was the guest interviewed on station WKDN yesterday. What he wants most for Christmas is a room stretcher for the clubhouse restaurant that would enable him to handle the crowds, especially on Saturdays. Incidentally, Jerry is probably the only guest announcer Ralph Shoemaker interviewed on his program who wore a tuxedo.
