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SPORTSMANS NOTEBOOK SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero 111 May 3 The first of a series of three endurance handicaps to be decided at this halfmile track during the meet ¬ ing will be staged here Wednesday The best of the route runners on the grounds are preparing for it and the two to follow and as the purse award is 5000 in each instance competi ¬ tion should be keen Distance races seem to be more popular with the general run of the patrons than the shorter affairs and it is to be hoped that racing secretary Robert McAuliffe has no difficulty filling his series The first of the three events will be at one and onesix ¬ teenth miles the second at one and oneeighths miles and H third at one and threesixteenths miles It will be re Smed that racing secretary Frank Kilroe put on such a series at Arlington and Washington Parks last summer and they proved popular popularA A A A AWhat What do you think happened here Saturday The boys in the press section were congratulating me on De ¬ termines success in the Kentucky Derby saying Cali ¬ fornia finally did it I was embarrassed for I stated that I didnt think Determine would be fourth You would have thought that I was a pal of owner Crevolin Matter of fact I am so obscure to that gentleman that he shook my hand at Santa Anita last winter and inquired if I was having a good time and was I wagering on any winners It so happens I was not having a good time I was work ¬ ing Had I been having a good time I would have been somewhere in the High Sierras with a fishing pole in my hand Although I now make my home in California I have no affiliations with racing organizations in that state whereas I am the only active charter member of First in Endurance Series Run Tomorrow Expect Good fields in Trio of Features Congratulated on Determines Success Kohout Convalescing After Hospital Stay Staythe the old Illinois Turf Writers Association and an honorary member of the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders Associa ¬ tion So why I should be congratulated on Determines success I would not know but it was right nice of the boys boysA A A A AJoseph Joseph G Kohout president of the central division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association has been released from the hospital and is convalescing at his home Ike Bassett of the Jockeys Guild was a visitor here Saturday but left for Kentucky Sunday Jockey Joe DAugustino has departed for Fairmount Park where he will ride free lance Jockey Paul Tenaglio got in from New England where he rode during the Lin ¬ coln Downs meeting A A A AHad Had a letter from Jim Richmond newly appointed di ¬ rector of public relations at Centennial In his first trip outside his native California lie ran into five inches of snow in the Rocky Mountain city Richmond is one of Fred Purners assistants at Santa Anita And speaking of snow we had a flurry here this morning Marion VanBerg spent Sunday at his home in Columbus Nebr NebrA A A A ATimes Times change on the turf Phil D who was fourth in the Kentucky Derby in 1951 was a starter here last Sat ¬ urday and was beaten Pat Kelly formerly with the Jockeys Guild has been appointed sales counselor for the General Electric Supply Co of this district At ¬ tendance and parimutuel handle here last Saturday was just a trifle better than that of opening day Many of the regulars were in Louisville attending the Derby among them Gibby Kaplan who seldom misses Jack Mc ¬ Donald San Francisco sports editor passed through Sun ¬ day after having covered the Derby for his paper Was disappointed at the showing of Correlation CorrelationA A A A ALeon Leon Slavin of Kalamazoo Mich who has some horses quartered at Detroit was a recent visitor here irv sear v additional racing stock James Hejna has soJ Leo McL to Mrs T Janicki and T Janicki will tr trin in Carmen Salvino son of popular trainer Ralph Savin0 among the leaders in the allevents at the ABC ip lm Congress now in progress at Seattle Robert Hart1eaa Hart1eaaof of the mutuel department receiving congratulations I the success of his daughter Doris in winning the women hard court tennis championship in England EnglandA A A Stanley Buck Hazzard vas an arrival with 14 horses in his public stable and they are quartered at Washington Park Following his visit to the Kentucky Derby presi ¬ dent William Johnston of Sportsmans Park was to journey to Jacksonville Fla on business Is expected back about midweek Roy Slomer brought four horses from Florida They are bedded down at Washington Park which is rapidly filling up with racing stock slated to compete at the coming Lincoln Fields meeting Anne Johnson of Hamilton Ohio was a visitor accompanied by her son Mrs Johnson races a small string of horses August and Elizabeth Muckler were recent arrivals from their home in St Louis Nan Su Ann Stable has hasContinued Continued on Page forty Sportsmans Notebook NotebookBy By J J MURPHY W Continued from Page FortyFour sold the threeyearold gelding Poachmg to Mrs Eunice Laris and Dan Cataldo will do the training A A a aFrank Frank Nunn has sent Houston Boy Foray Porter and Hart Par to Fair mount Park Jockey Tommy Bates is making ready to pack his tack and de ¬ part for Fairmount Rene Gebbia owner of the Broadway Stable is in from New Orleans for a short visit Trainer Harold Hoffman got back from Louisville States that Grace Kosibas good threeyearold Sub Factor a clever winner at Churchill Downs Saturday will remain in the Blue Grass for the time being Gulf Stream owned by R A Parachek got in from Ken ¬ tucky in charge of trainer C F Cherry Parachek is president of the Fort Miami track Toledo Ohio Deep Wonder a win ner here Saturday has been sent to Fair mount Park to compete in the Inaugural Handicap while Mister Carter will be shipped to Churchill Downs to run in the Bashford Manor Both horses are owned by T G Benson who will have runners on three fronts Leo Jones will ride Deep Wonder at Fairmount
