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Connors Corner By "CHUCK" CONNORS Trainer Gaver Sets Suburban Mark Saddles Three Successive Winners Atkinson Also Shares in Record BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 2. In the hubbub attendant upon the running of the Suburban Handicap on Memorial Day, an important training record was overlooked by the members of the paddock gang. Trainer John Gaver of the Greentree Stable saddled his third consecutive winner, namely One Hitter, Tom Fool and Straight Face. They were also ridden by Ted Atkinson, which is also a.record. Gaver, back in 1945 saddled his first Suburban winner in Devil Diver, but this fellow was ridden by Eddie Arcaro. The late Sam Hildreth holds the record of training and saddling the most winners of this traditional stake with five. He trained and saddled Fitz Herbert for his first in 1909 for himself, followed this in 1915 and 16 with Stromboli and Friar Rock for August Belmont, and then in 1923-24 sent Grey Lag and Mad- Hatter postward for the Rancocas Stable of Harry F. Sinclair. Gaver, who is among the younger generation of trainers, has an opportunity of surpassing this mark, and it is quite- possible that he might wind up by setting a " record that could stay, for a long time." Anyway, his feat of saddling the winner three years in succession is something for the boys and girls to mull over. Other jockey feats in the race that were surpassed by Atkinson on Monday were those held by Earl Sande and Sonny Workman with two successive scores,, on Grey Lag and Mad Hatter, and White Clover and Equipoise, respectively. Trainer Bobby Dotter will ship the James Cox Brady horses, headed by Landlocked and Commonwealth, to Monmouth Park for that meeting which opens on June 12 . . . Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope were injured in an auto accident on Saturday evening. He suffered a broken rib while Mrs. Swope is laid up with two such members fractured. They were returning home from a dinner party with Mr. and Mrs. Nick Schenck and were struck by an- automobile crossing through a side street. Trainer Jake Byer takes off to Ithaca, N. Y next weekxtq attend the graduation ceremonies of his -son Allan from Cornell University. The younger Byer majored in a business course, ... I. J. Carp, the St. Louis, Mo., enthusiast was on hand yesterday. He returned from- a trip to Europe including Italy -and France where he witnessed considerable racing when the opportunity presented . . . Eddie Brennan came up from Monmouth Park in the interests of the stakes which, closed yesterday for that meeting .... . Jimmie Steward of Hollywood Park returned to Los Angeles yesterday. He was here in the interests of the new race to be staged there, the Cali-fornian, an allowance affair over the mile and one-sixteenth distance with 00,000 added. He reported that he found the response fairly successful . . . Trainer George M. Odom reported that Eternal Will, owned by Mrs. Wallace Gilroy, will be altered today. Jockey Bennie Green will go to Delaware Park to ride Palm Tree for the Greentree Stable in the Kent Stakes on Saturday ... Trainer George P. "Maje" Odom plans to ship Buttevant, owned by John Barry Ryan, to Delaware Park for his Kent Stakes engagement . . . Trainer Johnny Theall shipped a half dozen horses from Aqueduct to Delaware Park for engagements there . . . Harry Trot-sek, the Hasty House Farm trainer, returned from Chicago. The stable accounted for three, features on Saturday, Monday and yesterday at the Lincoln Fields track with Pomace, Sea O Erin and Seaward ... Jockey John Adams checked back here and is all set to ride Hasty .Road in the Belmont Stakes.. . Trainer George M. Odom said that Emardee -who finished second in the Colonial Handicap for Mrs. W. L. Gilroy is back at her Belmont Park stall . . . Jockey Jorge Contreras, the Argentinian, cancelled the call held by the Maine Chance Farm on his services by mutual consent. His original contract is held by Horatio Luro . . . Trainer John Gaver said that Diving Board would be the reliance of the-Greentree Stable in the Peter Pan on the week end . . . Trainer Jim Ryan, who has the horses owned by Mrs. John R. H. Thouron, plans to ship. War of Roses, winner of the Jersey Stakes, here for his engagement in the Belmont on the final day of this meeting. iii -tiandl .loneM nc Jawed mol cUq sda atjandm "5 jnsmtfpltf one oiCT ve3 isvw .afhrjeCI v ib
