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Delaware Park Notebook By JOE HIRSCH - Bernd Has Fine Photography Dept. Polly Drummond Is Popular Stake Clarke on Juvenile Development DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 10. Delaware Parks photography setup, under the capable direction of Lester Bernd, is perhaps the largest and best run department of its kind at any track in this country. The scope of the operation and the amount of equipment involved is amazing, ernd employs in the neighborhood of 2 5 people on his many projects, which include all phases of the film patrol, preparing still photographs for newspapers, magazines and the publicity department, and pro-educing three-mintue television films for spot showing on sports programs. Bernd is constantly experimenting and a few years ago developed the "two-way project," which provides the stewards and other viewers with simultaneous head-on and side shots on the same screen, solving the depth perception problem which has plagued the film patrol since its inception. Bernds latest development is a new processing machine which enables his crew to have the racing pictures ready for the judges in less than a minutes time. Yesterdays Polly Drummond proved entirely too popular with local horsemen to get a clear picture of the two-year-old situation in this area. With 19 participants, racing secretary Gil Haus was forced to split the field into two divisions and the resulting competition was difficult to properly assay. Mrs. Elizabeth Grahams Fantine Busher might possibly have been caught at the wire by Claiborne Farms Courtesy in the first part of the feature had the Nasrullah filly not been forced outside the sizable pack for racing room. As for the stakes-winning . Menolene, it was not the Bull Brier miss best race by a long shot. Sorceress, held smartly off the pace by the clever Willie Hartack, came through with a well-earned triumph in the second division, covering -the five furlongs in the corking good time of :58, one-fifth of a second off the track standard. Boncrist Farms Sue Pat ran a courageous race and was the late leader until beaten a neck by Reginald Websters Slide Rule filly. Mrs. William Jeffords strongly supported En Rapport was never in contention. Around the Track: Yesterdays visitors included Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward and Mrs. John Oliver Needles, wife of the well-known turf enthusiast. . . . Mrs. Elizabeth Graham was on hand to watch her Pantine Busher triumph in the first division of the Polly Drummond, the third time Maine Chance has won the stake, incidentally. Mrs. Graham received a piece of plate from Mrs. Robert Boiling, daughter of track president Don Ross, as a symbol of her victory. ... J. Samuel Perlman, publisher of this newspaper; his daughter Sandra and columnist Nelson Dunstan Sandra, and columnist Nelson Dunstan s were the guests of general manager Bryan Field. Fields right arm is bandaged almost in its entirety. He plunged it through a French window chasing a marauding dog at his home the other day and the injury became infected on his recent trip to NOtre Dame to see his son graduate. But he promises to be ready for the big golf match here Friday night, pitting track officials against the press box gang. Charles "Chuck" Bednarik, former all-American center at Pennsylvania and now with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, took in an afternoon of sport. . . . Jess Linthicum, Baltimore sports editor, was present to see his namesake,- the seven-year-bid son of Deliberator Sakova, finish second in the third race. ... A small fire broke Out in the grandstand when a cigarette butt was wedged between a pair of loose board near one of the stairways. Track and state police dashed for fire extinguishers, but the excitement was far greater than the damage. Wednesdays seventh race honored the Ephrata, Pa., Kiwanis Club and 60 members were on hand to witness a presentation of a portable tadio to winning jockey Peter McLean. . . . Alan Clarke, the veteran trainer, believes that 80 per cent of the two-year-olds racing in this country neyer ijave a chance to develop properly because they are pushed too fast. "Were sending them to college when they belong .in. kindergarten," is the way Clarke putisritri Charley Cushman, who saddled the victorious Roman Tread yesterday, went to New York last night for the Belmont sales. . . . Both Polly Drummond victors were vanned to New York today Fantine Busher going to Belmont and Reginald . Websters Sorceress to Aqueduct. . . . Eighty staff members and executives of Time-Fortune will pay an annual visit to Delaware tomorrow. A pre-race luncheon has i Veen planned.
