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. . Delaware Park News and Notes By FRED GALIANI Program Reveals Interesting Names Atlantic City Adds Mutuel Windows Tinkham Veale to Remain in Racing DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 4. Two fellows meet in the paddock area. One of them says to the other, "Havin any iuck. Jttepues uie second chap, "Naw, I cant get the cork out." This is a bone dry track, you know . . . The practice here on the track program is to use the full Christian names of trainers and some discoveries have been made. For example, Rube Williams becomes Hubert Svend; A. Cremen turns up as Ambrose, and E. B. Stewart is revealed as Errol. Hes bigger than the guy in the movies, too5; W. W. Waters is Warner; turf writer "Nick" Carter, who is racing his own Dark Patrol on the beat, is carried as Wilton Snowden and Ned Gaines, trainer these many years for Cary Boshamer, is listed as Edison . . . George Palmer and Ted McLean have been notified of their appointments as stewards for the forthcoming Scarborough Downs meeting in Maine. Palmer will remain in the pagoda until the opening of the Atlantic City session, where he serves as starter, and his place will then be taken by Eb Pons. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Baker motored over from Atlantic City for the races Thursday. Phil, who is general manager of the Shore course, says that the work on the installation of the new line of mutuel windows to the rear on the top of the stands is practically completed. Sixty additional windows will be in action, 30 of them in the clubhouse and a like amount for the grandstand patrons. This new mutuel block will enabic those fans who use the top rows of seats a handy access for betting and avoid the jam on the mezzanine floor, where heretofore they had to go to wager. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bragg, Woodbury, Conn., owners of the. Eggleston Steel Company, made one of their infrequent appearances at the track to watch their homebred Town Belle run yesterday. The filly, who was making her first start, was well backed but failed to run to that expectation. . .Charlie Camac, Jr., son of the trainer, is the newest addition to George Palmers starting crew and his report card is marked with As. Elliott Burch shipped Brookmeade Stables War King and First Aid to Belmont Park . . . Frank "Hap" Christmas .will be on vacation for awhile when Tinkham Veale II. sells out his string at the forthcoming sale at Belmont Park. Veale will not leave the sport though and intends to concentrate on obtaining a couple of good horses for the future. He gets a bigger kick out of bringing a young horse along, according to Frank, and will devote himself to that pursuit in the future Bob Burns and the missus Ruth Chilton made their first appearance at a track since Florida. Ruth, who was a member of the publicity staff at Garden State for many years, has a radio show for Delaware Park over WJNJ every a. m. Harold Young will ship his 15-horse stable to New York after this meeting and then to Saratoga . Nick Mercadante, the Baron of Bensonhurst, and Rusy Stern deserted the expanses of Belmont for an initial visit to this country plant. Unfortunately, the road mans do not read like past performances and although they left New York early in the morning, they were trapped in the Philadelphia mazes and I didnt arrive until after the second race. Havent they heard of the turnpike? . . . Tom Waller and Moody Jolley are slated to ship in four horses each during the next week . .There are thousands of trees of most known woods on the grounds and seven miles of arbor vitae. And theres a jocks agent under every one of them . . Col. Anna Friedman, of the honorable order of Kentucky Colonels, was a guest of the management yesterday. Congressman Herb Warburton of Delaware, took in Thursdays sport and also enjoyed luncheon In the clubhouse dining roOm.
