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Delaware Memos MemosBy By FRED GAULANI GAULANIRenew Renew Sgt Muggins Purse June 22 Princess Lygia Platan Due Monday Scribes Officials Tee Off Today TodayDELAWARE DELAWARE PARK Stanton Del June 10 Monday June 22 is the date set for the fourth running of the Sergeant Muggins Purse which honors that sterling drum beater tub thumper or whatever else you want to call him at Dela ¬ ware Atlantic City and Sunshine First run in 1942 when it was the Corporal Muggins be ¬ fitting the mans rank it lias been promoted along with the Sergeant and the purse money kept apace This re ¬ newal as worth 5000 which is more than Muggins has There are latent possibilities in this race The brief roster of Muggins winners is not without some fame Bon Jour hero of the Trenton Handicap being one of the victors in the race However it is this corners contention that a trophy should be offered by the namesake some ¬ thing characteristic of the man say a box of cigars an old golf club or an index book something any owner would be proud to have haveAllie Allie Reuben owner of the Hasty House Farms has notified Gil Haus that Prin ¬ cess Lygia and Platan will head a ship ¬ ment of horses due in here on Monday Princess Lygia is a candidate for the 100000 New Castle Handicap and Plat ¬ an for the Leonard Richards Stakes Brookmeades Country Clare arrived this a m for the Kent on Saturday Jockey Willie Balzaretti and agent Jimmy James check out of here after tomorrows racing and head for Monmouth Park which opens on Saturday Charley Coco has sent seven horses to the North Jersey track and will keep six on the grounds at Stanton thus joining the number of com ¬ muting trainers for the conflict of the two meetings Mr and Mrs J Rock maker of Margate N J were guests of Mr and Mrs Elmer Truemari at the races Ray Scott who won his last race at the 1952 meeting here on Tacaro in one of Ms infrequent mounts of the year has called it a day and hung up his tack He is now employed by the film patrol here and at the Maryland courses coursesBill Bill Lasswell father of jockey Glen Lass well has come on from California to watch his son in action and will stay for the rest of the Eastern season The elder Lasswell is a former jock himself and rode through the Middlewest and California for 20 years piloting Ms last mount back in 1940 When they are side by side the two Lasswells could pass for brothers rather than father and son Bill Breen stopped off to visit his uncle telegrapher Johnny Breen in the press box en route from Alabama to Quan tico Bill a junior in Maryville Term College will get in some Marine training under the college reserve plan Trainer Frank Papianos son Frank Jr stationed with the U S Army in Germany is a con ¬ stant reader of this paper and chides his father when the issues are late in arriving Today marks another birthday for Ed ¬ die McCann but he is reticent about giving his age ageProminent Prominent visitors during recent days were Cary Boshamer president of Pim lico Mrs Gail Whitney Paul Harron of the Atlantic City Racing Association Mrs Edward S Moore mistress of the Circle M Farm Mr and Mrs A E Bis sell IvorBalding Dr and Mrs Alexan ¬ der shes the daughter of R J Kleberg Jr Beverly Broun formerly of the West Virginia Racing Commission Joe Casca rella of Laurel Howell E Jackson Mr and Mrs John Bromley owner of the Cedar Farm and Mr and Mrs Horatio Luro LuroAfter After the races tomorrow night the an ¬ nual nonsense of digging up the Newark Country Clubs golf course will take place when the press and the officials of the track meet for the third year So far the press team is still a maiden in this tourna ¬ ment but this year they seem to have assumed the role of favorite The boys who will try to unveil some of that power of the press are Palmer Heagerty BUI Boniface Snowden Carter Bob McCurley Sam Mc Collum Ray Haight and the aforemen aforemenContinued Continued on Page FortyOne Delaware Memos MemosBy By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Two Twotioned tioned Muggins Feldman The officials are composed of Fred Hayden Al Fahey Cal Bainey Jock Labelle Lester Bernd Leo OGrady and Joseph Flanagan FlanaganBight Bight off the reel there seems to be dissension in the press ranks Both Bill Boniface and Muggins claim to be the captain of the team each basing their claims on elections held last week What the press coop boys ought to do it get a hold of Ben Hogans new book Natural Golf which has just come off the cress Bryan Field who usually leads the offi ¬ cials in the tourney will be unable to play tomorrow but promises to be on hand after the matches to do some gloat ¬ ing or take a verbal lashing
