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mm ■.. "-m ■fc" 1 tl Pimlico Memos By FRED GALIANI Tax All Pimlico Facilities Today Dignitaries From Capitol on Hand Press Box Bulges for Preakness Day PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 22.— Tomorrows seventy-seventh running of the famed Preakness will attract a crowd that will will tax tax the the facilities facilities mm ■.. "-m will will tax tax the the facilities facilities of old Pimlico to its utmost. The diplomatic, social, political, theatrical and racing world will be amply represented. Governor and Mrs. Theodore Mc-Keldin will be hosts to U. S. Senator and Mrs. J. Glenn Beall, U. S. Senator and Mrs. John Butler, Secretary of the Treasury Treasury George George M. M. Treasury Treasury George George M. M. ■fc" Humphrey, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield and his wife, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and wife, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay, Judge Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the National Republican Committee, and his wife; Miss Bertha Atkins, chairman of the womens section of the Republican National Committee: D. Eldred Rinehart, chairman of the Maryland State Racing Commission, and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. George Friedland, president of the Food Fair, Inc. Reservations have been made for Ambassador and Madame Oreamuno of the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington, who will be in the party of Miss Rosa Ponselle, internationally known opera singer; Dermott McCalmont, senior steward at Irish race courses; Congressman Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the House of Representatives and his party; Real Admiral Price of Pensacola, and Vice-Admiral Masson retired, now the mayor of Pensacola, who will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Guggenheim, owner of Dark Star, the Kentucky Derby winner. Cary C. Boshamer, president of the Maryland Jockey Club, will be host at a dinner party at the Sheraton Belvedere to Congressman and Mrs. Hugh D. Scott, Jr., of Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Driscoll, Ardmore, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Boutelle of Hagerstown, Md., Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Woods, of New York City; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Gray of Gastonia, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Denying of Albemarle, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. Charleton Torrence of Gastonia, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Seabrook of Seabrook, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mori, Garden State Park and Vineland, N. J.; Henry M. Boshamer of Philadelphia; David F. Woods of Baltimore, and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Carlough, Charlotte, N. C. Also Mrs. Jeanne Seremba, president of Blue Bonnets Race Track in Montreal; Francois Seremba, Jr., and Pamfils Yvon, directors of Blue Bonnets, and Lucien Chartrand, chairman of the Province of Quebec Racing Association, who will be the guests of director of publicity John OKeeffe and his wife. From the race track will come Marjorie Lindheimer, of Arlington-Washington Parks; Spencer Drayton of the TRPB; Brownie Leach of Churchill Downs; Horace Wade, from Monmouth and Gulf stream Parks; Tommy Engleman of Monmouth; Al Fahey, Delaware Park; Mack Lesnick, president of Thistle Down and Cranwood Parks, and also a Pimlico official. Also Frank Warton, of the Illinois Racing Board; Mrs. John B. Campbell, wife of the handicapper for the New York tracks, accompanied by Mrs. Francis Dunne, wife of the New York state commission steward, and Mrs. Lou Walger, wife of the mutuels manager; Zolton Gombos of Cleveland, chairman of the Ohio Racing Commission, with fellow commissioners Jack Crowley and Ott Elliott. Pimlicos press box is about as half as long as the Widener course, but even that will be groaning in protest under the weight of so many reporters. Every paper in the East will have representatives at the Preakness, along with the wire service staffs, crews of eight newsreel companies, three television and radio outfits. Eight magazines, ranging from Life and the National Geographic to the Turf and Sports Digest, will cover the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans and the presence of Dark Star and Royal Bay Gem, offspring of the Australian sire Royal Gem II. has brought out reporters from the Australian Consolidated Press. One thing that will be missing, to a certain extent this year, will be the luncheon Continued on Page Forty-Eight Pimlico Memos By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two tables, covered by multi-colored umbrellas on the lawn of the old clubhouse. The additions built to the old baroque structure necessitated the elimination of the grass lawn, which has given way to concrete. Even the tremendous addition of dining space in the clubhouse now will be unequal to handling the task so a portion of the parking lot in back of the clubhouse has been screened off and tables will be placed there for dining . . . Temporary fences have been erected in the infield to keep tomorrows overflow throng from causing damage to the newly installed turf course . . . There will be no facilities for betting in the infield, but fans will be permitted to go there to watch the races. The amount of time for getting from the infield and back will be short, for all traffic will cease two minutes before the horses come on the track and will not be resumed until the race result is official and all horses returned to their stables. The record Preakness crowd is 42,370 who saw Assault win in 1946. . .Native Dancer has been quoted at 4 to 5 on the overnight line, but the gray ghost will certainly be shorter when the field breaks. Smallest mutuel pay-off was the minimum .20 on Citation in 1948... Citation also holds the slowest time for any Preakness renewal since it was run at a mile and three -sixteenths. He required 2:02% over a heavy track the year he romped home.
