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New Jersey Report I By FRED GALIANI Continue Talks on Apprentice Rule Belmont Paddock Scene at Camden Owners See Charges in Betsy Ross GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 13. The committee of the HBPA will meet with vice-chairman Hugh Mehorter, oi tne New Jersey Racing Commission, here Friday morning for further discussion on the new apprentice rule and the medication rule. This will be a continuation of a formal meeting held yesterday in the commissions offices in Trenton ... It looked like Belmont Park yes- terday for the running of the Betsy Ross Stakes. Represented by starters and present to watch the race were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kleberg, of the vast King Ranch in Texas, along with trainer Max Hirsch, who won the race with On, Your Own; Harry Guggenheim, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lowe, of Fort Worth, and Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Tutt, whose Ashland Stakes winner, Jenjay, ran second. Also Mrs. Elizabeth Graham and party, Donald Ross, president of Delaware Park; Mrs. F. Wallis Armstrong, Joseph Roebling, and I. J. Collins. It was a strictly Belmont paddock scene, too, in addition to the owners, their respective trainers being -present. Speaking of Belmont, it is no longer a rare occasion when the New York tracks are outhandled by the Jersey plants. Garden State has outstripped Belmont quite frequently of late in the mutuel play department. Incidentally, a cause celebre was averted in the Betsy Ross through the acumen of this, papers trackman. Bill Phillips. Max Hirsch . saddled an entry in the race, Mrs. Edward Laskers Pen-in-Hand and King Ranchs On Your Own. Through an error, the saddlecloths were transposed and the horses were wrongly numbered when Bill happened to notice the mix-up." A call to the paddock rectified the mix-up before they left the paddock, which was well, indeed, as On Your Own came through to score. AAA Carl Hanford has leased the services of apprentice Henry Block from the Bohemia Stable of Mrs. Richard duPont for the duration of this session Dont tell Belmont Evans any jokes, or do anything to make him laugh these days. Evans is suffering with a case of cracked ribs, which he incurred in an auto mishap while driving up from Baltimore. It also accounts for his sidewinders walk. . .Believe it or not, but Buddy Raines, the Brandywine Farm trainer, is sporting a new hat. Its the same-style as he usually effects, but its definitely a new chapeau . . . C. V. Whitneys Catspaw is due to arrive shortly for Saturdays Delaware Valley Stakes and Jack Skelly is booked to ride. . .Beau Betts, who will be remembered around here as running up a string of five straight for trainer A. "Frenchy" Bowen, climbing straight up the claiming ladder, "has a filly foal by Your Host. . .Jockey Joe Culmone winds up his 10-day suspension next week and will be back in action Tuesday. AAA Jim Maloney, trainer for Joseph Roebling, has a number of juveniles in his care at Belmont, among them a full sister to Blue" Peter, the champion of his year who died before coming to the races as a three-year-old. Maloney is taking it easy with; Portage, the daughter of War Admiral Carillon, bringing her up to a race slowly . . . Andy Colando made his first appearance of the season Wednesday when he started a couple of juveniles. He is staying at his Point-a-View farm in Pennsylvania, vanning over starters for the races. Continued on Page Forty-Four I NEW JERSEY REPORT By FRED GALIANI Continued from Page FiVe The young veterinarian has seven homebred juveniles on the farm. AAA Trainer Elmer Kalensky, serving out a 60-day suspension meted out by the Keenland stewards, came up from Baltimore for the afternoon. The ruling: against Kalensky is his first in 30 years of racing- . . Eddie Burke, the Mi-amian who owns the High Tide Stable,, is playing golf with Sammy Snead in Greenbrier, W. Va. . . . Porter Roberts, the former jockey now turned successful trainer, will start Dickey Stables Meno-lene in the Cherry Hill Stakes next Wednesday, with Kenny Church in the irons. Porters wife, Elaine, is quite enthusiastic over a newly foaled filly by El Mono Jamaica Girl at the Florida breeding establishment who will eventually carry her colors inj956. AAA William Charles, Jr., is on the receiving end of congratulations on his appointment , as good will man for Randall Park in Ohio. f I The boys can refer to Mr. Charles as am- 1 bassador now. No more of that "Fats" I . . . Recent visitors here were Mr. and Mrs. J. Halle of Wilmington who raced I some horses a few years ago, and Mrs. -M. Salsbury, of the same city. Halle reports that the new track kitchen at Delaware Park is out of this world. . . In . Mrs. Grahams party for the Betsy Ross was Mollie Collum, who just flew in from1 , Miami. Its only a brief stay because she leaves the end of the month for Europe, where she will take in the Epsom Derby and some French racing. AAA Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lunger, owners of Christiana Stables, and Mr. and Mrs. John Bromley, the Cedar Farm proprietors, were on hand yesterday. . . The members of the Delaware River Port authority were present for Wednesdays races . . The fellow with the big cigar who inhabits the last box in the club house every afternoon is Puggy ONeil, popular nightclub entertainer in Philadelphia, Miami and Atlantic City. It is probably just a coincidence that his engagement always coincide with race meetings. AAA Up for a few days sport from his Reho-beth Beach, Del., home is Jim Kittson, whose grandfather was a breeder many years back and maintained the present Erdenheim Farm, which the family later sold to the Wideners. Jim recalls that Leamington, Iroquois, Maggie B. B., who was Iroquois dam, and Flora Temple are buried at Erdenheim Farm . . . Thomas A. Wootton, commissioner of public safety in Atlantic City and former N. J. amateur golf champion, spent the afternoon at the races. AAA The Glassboro Rotary Club, the Jim Thorpe Boosters and the Harrisburg Republican Club all were on hand en masse for todays sport. The Jim Thorpe club hails from Mauchchunk, Pa., near Carlisle where the late great football star made his fame. There is an unusual twist to this club because they are the leaders in a move to change Mauch-chunks name to Thorpe an a vote -vill be taken on it some time this year ... Tommy Korinas is helping Walter Carrion, the jock from Equador, in getting mounts. The latter knows no english so their conversations shoulJ prove interesting.
