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j ! Delaware Park Notebook I By JOE HIKSCH Fable About Pantless Connelly Noss Efficient Admissions Head Big Golf Match Ends All-Even DELAWARE PARK, Stanton, Del., June 12. Ted Noss, director of admissions at Delaware Park, was recalling one of the countless countless fables fables con- countless countless fables fables con- concerning the antics of the late One - Eyed Connelly the other day. It seems that Connelly, finding himself in Miami, decided to spend an afternoon at the track. Buying a ticket was, of course, out of the question for the king of gate crashers, and so, unable to talk talk his his way way past past the the talk talk his his way way past past the the gate, he made for a near-by wall. He had both hands on the top and was preparing to Tioist himself over when he was spotted by a policeman, who called on him to come down. Connelly paid no heed, so the cop leaped up and grabbed him around the legs. The weight of the law proved too much for Connelly, or rather Connellys trousers, for they fell before this onslaught and, took the law along with them. And Connelly, pantless but triumphant, continued his journey over the wall for a full day of sport. Noss, in. his official capacity, doesnt find the Delaware species of gate crasher to be as ingenious as One-Eye in his heyday, but bis men do get some fantastic stories during the course of a meeting. The admissions department at this Stanton oval is quite a sizable group, numbering more than 150 men. Their work is cut out for them because of the unusually large area of the track grounds and Noss installed an intercom system to link up the seven outside entrances, saving a mile and a quarter journey on each of his frequent checks. Like just about all of the equipment at Delaware, the ticket vending machines are the last word in mechanical proficiency and can "remember" up to 32 -individual transactions. This track does a heavy out-of-town business and Noss deals daily with the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad people on schedules and other pertinent matters. Seven bus lines bring fans from surrounding cities, and one company even hauls patrons from Times Square in New York. Around the Track: The jockeys quarters here are beautifully appointed and well run by Eddie Dennison, clerk of scales, and John Cartwright, the custodian. The dressing room is spacious with ample individual lockers and a shower room and "hot box" close at hand. Up a short flight of stairs is a lounge where the riders can relax on soft leather chairs and couches, play ping pong or pool, watch television or get something to eat at the small lunch bar that .is run on a non-profit basis. In addition, there is a large room with beds should the reinsman want to nap and a porch where the races may be viewed in comfort and style. . Benjamin Duffy, president of the B. B. D. and O. and L. L. Colloway, Jr., advertising director of Fortune Magazine, made the presentation at the conclusion of the featured sixth race yesterday, named in honor of the magazine. Track president Don Ross Rain, a three-year-old filly by Native Dancers sire, Polynesian, took the event by five lengths. Even the maintenance people here have the latest in equipment. Instead of the familiar nail-on-the-head-of-a-stick for picking up paper, attendants make the rounds with an all metal gadget that has several prongs, arranged in a circle, at the end. There is also a spring affair in the middle that depresses to force the paper onto the prongs plus a safety device that shields the prongs when not in use. . .The film patrol reels are picked up at the various stations around the oval by a lad on a sturdy bay horse, who speeds to the film laboratories off the clubhouse turn with such abandon, he is known as "Paul Revere." A dramatic finish attended last nights annual golf match at the Newark Del. Continued on Page Forty-Nine Delaware Notebook By JOE HIRSCH Continued from Page Bight Country Club between track officials and scribes. A quartet of foursomes went out following the eighth race for nine holes of competition and the match was all even when three of the groups completed their rounds. The fourth group was coming down the ninth hole as the sun sank rapidly in the West and it, too, wound up. even-stephen as judge Cal Rainey halved the hole with this tiring duffer. During the dinner that followed Bryan Field suggested another and deciding match next Friday and team strategy is already being plotted. Among the participants Field topped scribe Nick Carter; Bill Boniface of the writers and Fred Hayden of the publicity staff, halved, as did announcer Ray Haight and publicity director Al Fahey. Judge Ted McLean lost a tough match to scribe Charlie Lamb but judge Rainey evened the score for the stewards against the writer. Palmer Heagerty of this paper beat photographic director Les Bernd; Sam McCallum of Western Union dropped a match to Bill Miller of the track and scribe Bob McCurley topped Leo OGrady of the parking department. The scribes admittedly missed the : steadying influence of their former captain, Fred Galiani, now overseas at Monmouth Park.
