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i ; -, Connors Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Racings Popularity in Full View Heavy Eastern Turnstile Count One Count Still on Slow Side BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 31. Saturdays children in the Eastern area went racing over the holiday week end m goodly numbers. The turnstile counts showed Garden State leading the van with 34,305, Belmont Park with 33,890, Suffolk Downs with 21,113 and Delaware Park with 19,517. The wagering showed on the other hand a different formula. The local course counted ,12 7,600 through the maw that assists as a collection agency for New York State in the matter of taxation. Garden State, with ,814,113, was second, Suffolk Downs topped Delaware Park with ,234,-351, as against ,005,198. The Coaching Club American Oaks was the heaviest media in the stake offerings With 66,721. New Yorkers contributed a tidy sum to the tax department at Albany, N. Y., through the 9 per cent cut 81,284 and on top of this Nassau County and New York city split an additional 2 per cent of the total. In addition, the state collected 60 per cent of the breakage, which on Saturday, totaled 1,823,70. No matter how you look at it, it was a pretty good days collection for the state and its sub-divisions with no effort, or chance to lose. W. R. Fairbank, who was named as a trainer for a division of the Main Chance Farm last week, resigned the post this morning. He gave no reasons . . . Trainer Bobby Greene moved over to Garden State to saddle Sunshine Nell, owned by M. J. Kaplan, for the Colonial Handicap. The mare will be returned here following the running of the event . . . Johnny Bleake, who deserted the Forty First Street catering scene for a life of ease in Florida, was a visitor over the week end. He plans a trip to Europe and a couple of weeks in Ireland to visit some kinf oiks. Mr. and Mrs. John R. H. Thouron returned from Garden State where their War of Roses accounted for the Jersey Stakes . . . Walter Stone came up from Monmouth Park on missionary work for the stake offering at that track which are slated to close at midnight tomorrow .... Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hertz deserted Belmont Park for Garden State -where their colors will be seen in competition in the Colonial Handicap astride Speedy Wave . . . Tommy Oeefe was recently discharged from, the armed services after a couple of years duty. He is galloping horses steadily and will resume riding at Aqueduct. OKeefe is with Eddie Nelson . . . Harold Richardson, recently returned from a European trip, was among the week end visitors and stated that in his earlier visits to English tracks the Epsom Derby is a, wide open affair . . . Joseph Roebling of Trenton, N. J., was on hand and reported that 20 of his matrons had been bred and a few remain to fulfill commitments. Trainer George M. Odom stated that Emardee, owned by Mrs. Wallace Gilroy, will be returned from Garden State tomorrow. Mrs. Gilroy, following a siege of virus, was on hand for the first time over the week end . . . Mrs. Russell A. Firestone was among the week-end visitors . . . Bernard Baruch, the elder statesman, and Herbert Bayard Swope admitted that their rooting powers failed on Saturday when Riverina could do no better than third in the Oaks . . . Mrs. Charles Shipman Pay son, co-owner with her brother, John Hay Whitney, of the Greentree Stable, spent the better part of Saturday afternoon listening to the radio. She is an ardent Giant rooter. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kleberg planed up from Texas for the running of the Coaching Club American Oaks. . . Jack Amiel deserted Times Square for the afternoon . . . Trainer Oscar White, before leaving for Delaware Park, he will commute between here and there for the remainder of the conflict, stated that One Count is still on the slow side and some time away from a return to the races . . . Track superintendent Strickland is encountering some difficulty in persuading owners and trainers to occupy the new concrete barn erected at Jamaica. The boys veto the suggestion when approached to move. Trainer Red Wingfield was the first to stable horses in the structure . . . Irving Gushen, after attending a meeting of the directors of the Jockey Club Foundation Home,- returned to New England. Routine matters were discussed at the session . . . Meyer J. Kaplan motored over to Garden State to lend encouragement to his mare Sunshine Nell in todays stake offering.
