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Connors Cornet By "CHUCK" CONNORS Memorial Day Part of LongWeekEnd Suburban Big Event at Belmont Park JetActionShipsSunday forPreakness BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 14. Memorial Day has over the years " been looked upon as the top day for at tendance marks at sporting events. This year there is a strong possibility that the turnstile counts will be affected, for that day set aside to revere the war dead falls on a Sunday. The official celebration has been deferred until Monday, and this will give the pleasure-seekers a long week end starting on Friday and winding up late Monday evening or Tuesday morning. The weather -will have a big effect on the exodus from the big metropolitan centers, such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities. Belmont Park has arranged some top-notch presentations for Saturday and Monday. The Coaching Club American Oaks, with its 0,000 added, is the Saturday feature, and on Monday the time-honored Suburban will be the piece de resistance of the menu. The Coaching Club American Oaks is, tradition-wise, a newcomer when compared to the Suburban, for a span of 33 years separates the two inaugurals. AAA The Suburban had its first running at Sheepshead Bay in 1884 when Gen. Monroe, owned by E. J. McElmeel, was the winner, while the Oaks, also born in a war year, 1917, was taken by Wistful, who raced for the late James Butler. The monetary awards to both races is the same. The students of racing, however, will center their attention upon A. G. Vanderbilts Native Dancer, who no doubt will he top weight of the field to be recruited from the original 65 nominees. Of this number a handful no doubt will face the starter to race the mile and one-quarter distance. Weights for the Suburban are due on Wednesday, May 26, and the amateurs are biding time, awaiting the outcome of the Metropolitan, before pitting their ability against the man appointed by The Jockey Club, Jack Campbell, in the matter of weight assignments. Anyway, over the week end and on up to May 26, the boys and some of the girls will make their opinions well known. AAA Memorial Day this season will have its share of racing programs, for 15 racing grounds located from one end of the country to the other and encompassed between the Canadian and Mexican borders will be iusy. Some of them are well known to the regulars, but the others are just names and their locale is a matter of doubt. Anyway, here is the list: Ascot Park, Belmont, Beulah, Delaware, Detroit, Fairmount Park, Garden State, Hollywood, Lincoln Fields, Memorial Park, Omaha, Portland Meadows, Rockingham, Suffolk Downs and Water-ford. Canada will join in with Woodbine, while the fairs and smaller tracks scattered through the wide open spaces of the southwest will also contribute to the greatest show on earth. Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and other states out west will present racing programs, plus a number of quarter horse tracks. Well, you can take your choice, for over the long week end present-day airplanes can get you there in time for the daily double. AAA The Maine Chance Farm took first call on the services of jockey Jorge Contreras for the Belmont Park meeting. Contreras will go to Garden State Park tomorrow to ride Buttevant, owned by John Barry Ryari, in the Delaware Valley Stakes . . . Trainer Max Hirsch said that High Gun, owned by the King Ranch, would be returned to Belmont Park following his Garden State engagement on Saturday . . . Trainer Bowes Bond will ship Brazen ; Brat here for an engagement on Monday ... Dave Englander, the old jockey who rode here, South America and Europe in the first two decades of the century, is a regular these afternoons . . . Jockey Bob-; by Ford was a recent arrival from Calif or-: nia and plans to ride here during the i summer months. He won his first race at : Raton, N. M. AAA Trainer Johnny Theall will ship Gigantic i to the Preakness scene on Monday. Owner i Joe W. Brown is due here for the week end i sport and then will leave for Pimlico to i await the running of the Preakness . . . i Trainer George Strate received word from I R. S. Lytle that Correspondent would be I shipped to Belmont Park following the running of the preakness and then readied for s his Belmont Stakes engagement in June . . . . Colin "Sandy" MacLeod returned to his Vir- K oj job Jggi f itty-Thee , t . t j 1 1 Connors Corner By C. J. CONNORS Continued from Page Four ginia farm following several days of racing here . . . Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Stokely of Brownsville, Tex., are here as guests of Max J Hirsch. The latters nephew married a i daughter of the visitors . . . W. E. Charles of the HBPA was a visitor yesterday. He came over from Garden State ... A motion picture company has taken possession of Jamaica these mornings and is shooting a : racing picture. The cast according to Ja- maicaites is a big one ... I. J. Collins came out for the afternoon and reported that trainer Bill Booth will ship a draft of his : horses to Delaware Park next week in charge of Buddy Raines. Apprentice Stovall will accompany the shipment. ; AAA Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, who main- ; tains the fashionable Wheatley Sta- ! ble, was among yesterdays visitors ... ,; Mrs. Elizabeth N. Graham made the trip to witness the debut of the filly Rushers Queen. The filly raced like a top-notch performer . . . Mr. and Mrs. j John D. Hertz returned to the clubhouse fold following several days of absence ... Trainer Eddie. Neloy has altered his plans relative to the shipment of Jet Action, owned by the Maine Chance Farm. The three-year-old will leave on Sunday for Pimlico and his Preakness engagement. Jet Action was given a mile prep over the main track this morning, stepping an easy mile in 1;40 and a couple of fifths. A A A Trainer G. P. "Maje" Odom motored over to Garden State and will saddle Buttevant in his engagement there over the week end. The colt is due back at -Belmont Park on Sunday . . . Trainer Bill Winfrey may ship Find, owner by A. G. Vanderbilt, to Suffolk Downs for his engagement in the Massachusetts Handicap on Wednesday. Should the colt start Eric Guerin will do the riding . . . Preston Burch of the Brookmeade Stable is due back from Lexington, Ky., tomorrow. He inspected the foals and mares owned by the menage in that area. Upon his return here, he will breeze Capeador over the main track and then decide whether that veteran will carry the Brookmeade colors in the Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs . . . Jockey Bill Boland declined the mount on High Gun at Garden State Park to handle Llangollen Farms Porterhouse in his seasonal debut. The Futurity winner is entered in the fifth race . . . Mrs. Dodge Sloane showed up early for the week-end program . . . C. V. Whitney came down from his Adirondack lodge for the week end festivities.
