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Delaware Park News and Notes ! By FRED GALIANI Delaware Presents Pastoral Scene Sidney Jacobs Has Only Levy Horses Garden State Wagering Up 3.27 DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 1. The transition from Garden State Park to this verdant plant is one of night are among the f ore-i most in the nation, but where Garden State is modern, electric, and run with the efficient precision of a million-dollar business, which it is, Delaware is a throwback to the more primeveal days of the sport. To be sure, they have all the mechan- ized improvements of recent years, the film patrol, photo finish, starting gate et alia, but there is still a sporty air to the races, almost languid so to speak. It has an informal, easy touch. . Aiding this impression is its location. Far from any Metropolitan area and its contingent rush and hubbub, Delaware is out in the country and its 700 acres of rolling land is probably the largest owned racing ground in the world. The dominant note is green. No matter in which direction one casts an eye from the stands, the scene is pastoral, from the lush grass of the infield, out past the backdrop of trees, to the tiny opening at the six-furlong chute where cows graze on a rolling pasture. Racing in Delaware is an interlude of relaxation. Sidney Jacobs will henceforth confine his training activities to the Jaclyn Stable and the horses owned by Robert P. Levy, relinquishing his posts with other patrons for whom he had conditioned . . . Bob "Toodles" Houser, a member of George Palmers starting crew, was bitten on the hand by a horse during schooling hours this morning. The injury was severe and Houser was taken to Delaware Hospital where Dr. C. L. Munson, the track surgeon, amputated the ring finger of his left hand Tommy Steele, of the official forces on the Jersey circuit, is hustling stakes nominations .for the coming Monmouth Park session . Willie Nertney has been ap-. pointed sub agent for Bernie Bonds string. , Jack Skelly will pilot C. V. Whitneys Catspaw in Saturdays Kent Stakes and Willie Lester has been engaged to handle -Christianas Menemsha in the same event ...Mrs.. Marion OConnors La Corredora will be shipped to New York for an overnight race Thursday and then will compete -in the Top Flight Handicap on June 9 at Belmont. . .Pete McLean returns to New York after riding yesterday at Garden State and here today. Garden State, which ended its spring meeting Memorial Day, reached new heights again. Seemingly there is no limit to the fantastic growth of the New Jersey sport. The ,336,092 handle on closing day pushed the total for the 25 days to 0,585,332, giving the Camden course a daily average of better .than ,000,000, the first track in the state to do so. The increase in wagering was 3.27 per cent, at a time when most tracks are showing declines. Attendance kept pace also, with a total of 566,479 persons passing through the gates. This was a jump of 4 per cent over last years spring session. It seems safe to say that when Garden States fall meeting is finished, over a million persons will have attended the Camden plant. Cleaning up a few notes from Jersey: Harold O. Simmons left for Chicago where he will take over as trainer for the Valley View Farm of J. L. Younghusband. . .Bob Read, chairman of the national board of directors of the HBPA, was a guest of John Machise, president of the New Jersey division of the horsemens group, for the holiday races. . .Bob Levy is pointing his Hueso for the Oceanport Handicap on Monmouths opening day. . .Taking advantage of the hiatus in the Jersey scene, mutuels manager Riggs Mahony, and fellow employes Eddie OTtonnell, Paul Benners and others left for Miami to bring their families back to north Jersey for the summer months. . .Lanse McCurley, sports editor of the Philadelphia News, had a relapse-and was taken back to the Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, suffering from a heart condition. . .Harry Woods will take three horses for owner S. Segal to Thistle-Down... Louis Prima has turned over his wifes Duketown to Sammy Sacco to train and will ship one or two more to the pint" sized horseman to handle on the Jersey circuit. -
