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By MOKRIE KURLANSKY Shorty de Ponti Local Trot Champion Has WoruSix Out of Eight 53 Starts Worsham Beds Down Nellie Pointer PointerMAYWOOD MAYWOOD PARK Maywobd HI June 10 Monday nights freeforall trot clearly established Shorty DePontis claim to the Maywood Park trot ¬ ting championship The four year old colt owned in Minneapolis Minn and trained by Clarence Curtis lowered his record again in his latest essay by four fifths of a second to 206Vs It was the sixth victory in eight starts this year for the son of Tecumseh Hanover Getting to the top early Shorty DePonti held a comfort ¬ able lead all the way to help his driver round out a double victory that night Curtis had won the nights opener with Francis Me and after Shorty DePonti re ¬ turned a winner too C C climbed back into second place behind the tied leaders Ralph Ayou and Earl Roush both having 16 victories and Curtis 15 wins winsThere There have been some cases where drivers accepting a socalled catch mount did not receive adequate pay ment or no compensation at all This reminds of one case last year when the ownertrainer of a onehorse stable of ¬ fered a wellknown young driver the ride behind his pacer in the 25000 Pacing Derby The young man won both heats of this richest race of the 1952 Chicago harness racing season but received only a paltry remuneration for his outstand ¬ ing effort which was to a great extent responsible for the horses success Later the same driver flew twice over to De ¬ troit to drive said pacer in some stakes in the Motor City but still hasnt got his expenses paid by the owner of the horse There are no official rules regu ¬ lating the compensation of a driver of catch mounts but the official agencies might well consider to incorporate defi ¬ nite regulations pertaining to the com ¬ pensation of a driver accepting an out ¬ side or freelance mount For the pro ¬ tection of trainers and drivers it just shouldnt happen again that the win ¬ ning driver of a race like the 50000 Golden West Pace at Los Angeles Calif receives only 500 and the man hi the sulky behind the winner of the 25000 National Facing Derby at Roosevelt Raceway a few seasons ago gets a check for 200 which was 100 less than the stipulated 300 300The The fastest halfmile of the 1953 Chicago season was registered in Monday nights ninth race a class A pace The pole horse Ima Hanover Dale with Dave Taddeo in the sulky left the gate like a bullet to be joined in the first turn by Hollywood Ben nie and the Floyd Rosencrantsdriven pacer reached the quarter pole in 29 But then Peter Belle was moving up got the lead and cutting out a furious clip was timed in 100 for the first lap It was plain for everybody to see that the leaders could not maintain such a fast pace for the second half and sure enough two horses that had been rated off the pace got the laurels in that heat The winner was Huron Express the Canadian speed ¬ ster and runnerup was Peggy Barnes whose strength had been conserved by Ralph Ayou by clinging to the rail Huron Express effort was especially commend ¬ able since the nineyearold had to race on the outside the whole mile The victors time was 205 a personal record for the iron gelding geldingVern geldingf f Vern Waddell closed out his Maywood Park campaign with his winning drive be ¬ hind Huron Express Altogether the Ca ¬ nadian won seven races three with the royallybred Mighty Cox two with Allan Scott and two with Huron Express while his only other starter Hollywood Direct got part of the purses raced for The Ca ¬ nadian stable left for the Dominions most modern harness race track Thorncliffe Raceway in Toronto and a side trip to Saratoga Raceway in upstate New York also is contemplated Waddell might re ¬ turn in the fall since he has his twoyear old Algiers trotter staked in several Grand Circuit events and furthermore plans to give Mighty Cox a fast record at the Lex ¬ ington Red Mile MileDuke Duke Worsham arrived here from his home in Tippecanoe Ind where he trained his stable of harness horses He bedded down Nellie Pointer a nineyear old mare by Pegasus Pointer with life ¬ time earnings of 2207583 and a winner of six races last year Lynn Direct a sevenyearold mare by Chief Abbedale credited with 782124 in earnings and two victories last year and the green pacing filly Miss Flower Direct Fur ¬ thermore he has one trotter owned by Sam T James of Morrison HI in his care to make it an allfemale stable The trotter Armayda J is a twoyear old by Lawrence Hanover and will be started in tomorrow nights official schooling race for diagonallywaited ju ¬ veniles Jake Mahoney had a slight training acci ¬ dent the other morning He was jogging a green trotter on the track and was about to turn him around when the sprinkling truck came along The horse got frightened by the noise reared and threw Jake out of the sulky into the infield but luckily he sustained only slight bruises and had to send his coat to the cleaners cleanersRed Red Ross checked out with his stable for Louisville to compete at the Fair ¬ grounds Speedway He is expected to be back in Chicago for the Sportsmans Park meeting Mr Blackburn co owner of Kongs Ale and other horses here announced that Billy Rouse would be engaged to drive the Marino Black ¬ burn horses after Red Ross left Among recent clubhouse visitors were Joel Goldblatt president of Goldblatt de ¬ partment stores and Sidney Korshak prominent la Salle Street attorney as guests of Ira Pink president of the Eng lander Mattress Co Johnny Lujack and his wife enjoyed the trotters He is the former Notre Dame star and a member of the coaching staff of the Chicago Bears Ed Short publicity di ¬ rector of the Chicago White Sox took time out from his duties to indulge in some post mortems here instead of on the southside Mrs John Waner entertained Mrs Lil ¬ lian Ford Riley secretary of the Central Republican Committee of Chicago Mel Thillens who sponsors the Pony Baseball League on the northside got a good look at some real ponies here Mrs Dorothy Tarr manager of Denise Darcel the French movie star was seen in company of Mrs Ben Navin Mrs Paula Weiss prominent northside socialite who recently returned from her annual Florida jaunt was noticed among the boxseat patrons in the company of an unknown but very attractive female companion
