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Atlantic City Memos L. By FRED GALIANI 1 Ted Mack Takes In Atlantic Sport Visit Not Strictly for Publicity Often Called Upon to Judge Horses ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., Aug. 27. Ted Mack, who is known to millions of TV viewers, has more than just a ; passing interest in horses, so his appearances at the track are not strictly just for publicity. Mack, who was a guest here yesterday,- is a westerner by birth and spent the early portion of his life hustling horses around Denver and even to this day has not forgone his interest in the breed. He maintains four sad- j die horses at the Westchester " Country Club, N. Y in addition to raising Hereford cattle at his Virginia farm and while he doesnt show horses himself, he frequently is asked to judge them. His most recent stint was judging the Devon horse show, which is the largest outdoor horse show, and he is most often an honorary judge at the national horse show in Madison Square Garden. While he does not belong to the ranks of thoroughbred owners yet, as does his fellow video star, Arthur Godfrey, who recently surprised everyone by buying some yearlings, it is possible that Ted may also go along the same path. While in the paddock yesterday, he was looking over the entrants carefully and was heard to remark, "Ive put my money into cattle, I wonder if I can get it out in horses." Well, you can, always try, Ted. Jack Creevy, who trained a division of the George D. Widener horses at Monmouth, is reported to be in critical condition in Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia. Creevy was kicked in the face by a yearling at the Erdenheim Farm of Widener, where the youngsters were being broken. . .Nick Shuk returned from riding Mrs. Ben Whitakers Grecian Queen in the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga and reported that the weight told the difference in the result. "She started backing up in the last 70 yards. The 12 pounds was too much." . . .Bill Chinery, former ABC commissioner for Monmouth and Ocean Counties; Al Kushinsky, assistant prosecutor for Ocean County, and Senator Ma this were out representing various divisions of the law and watching the Senators namesake run. Veteran jocks agent Whitey Dauen-hauser poses a question that is much too hard for us to answer. Yesterday jockeys Ttarl Korte and Walter Williams, both of whose engagements are booked by Whitey, finished in a dead-heat to place. Now Whitey wants to know if that ever happened before, or if anyone went that one better by having two riders who both finished in the same dead-heat to win. . .Jockey Robert "Red" Howell arrived here from Washington Park and will free lance for the re-mainer of the New Jersey season. The veteran jock, third leading rider on this circuit in 1947, confined his activities to Kentucky and Illinois this year. Believe it or not, but for the-first time in many a year Yancey Christmas stopped complaining and handed out a few compliments. When asked how he enjoyed his visit to Chicago, Yancey replied that he was never so cordially treated. "They are wonderful people out there," he said, "and they treat you better than any place else in the country, with the exception of New York, and. they are almost on a par with them" . . . Jockey Danny Johnston has been told that the bone on his broken leg is healing nicely and that he will be able to get rid of his final cast in a couple of months. A shorter cast was placed on his leg at the Atlantic City hospital yesterday. Dary has been on the sick list for over a yeax now. Bernie Hewitt ends his 10-day suspension and will be back riding Friday, while Jorge Contreras and Roger LeBlanc take his place in the equivalent of the turfs penalty box . . . Eb Pons, racing secretary at Rockingham, and Dominick Lo Braico, Continued on Page Thirty-Nine Atlantic City Memos By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page Fire stall superintendent at the New Hampshire course, stopped off for a visit to this shore track after taking in the races at Saratoga. From here they will go back j to New York and wait for the races there next week. . .Bernie Bond will send Jpuett Shouses Ladd to Narragansett Park for the Newport Stakes there on September 5. The Newport is for two-year-olds, and Bobby Mitchell will journey to Pawtucket to ride the youngster. Pat Duffy, manager of the Hamilton Hotel in Washington, D. C, and his wife are visitors at the track while on vacation... Mrs. Marcel Gerson, of near-by Margate, and a party were out for the afternoon. ..If jockey Robert Louis Stevenson isnt driving the longest convertible Olds in existence, I dont know who is. . .Joe Webster, who started Jersey Joe Walcott on the comeback trail to the heavyweight championship when the latter left the shipyards, is an attache of the racing commission here. . .Steward John Turner, Sr., was in the paddock yesterday and, as Watson Elliott was taking his King Pomp to the walking circle, yelled over joshingly, "Hurry up there, old man." To, which Watt replied, "Im younger than you are." "And he may be right at that," said judge Turner in an aside to yours truly.
