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; ► I ; New Jersey Report • By FRED GALIANI Monmouth Play, Gate Holding Up Jockey Hartack Sure Gets Around Lady Rounders Lucky for Carpinelli MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 17. — After four days of operation and despite two cold and uncomfortable afternoons noons Tuesday Tuesday and and noons Tuesday Tuesday and and Wednesday, the figures show that Monmouth is holding its own in the early, or unfertile period. Wagering is up some, in the vicinity of 4 per cent, while the attendance is almost .the same. In exact figures, just 26 people less than in 1953 turned out for the the first first four four days. days. the the first first four four days. days. But yesterday was a foul one for the races. It was so raw, windy and damp that even the martini drinkers were shivering. The Salvator dining terrace in the clubhouse, a most popular spot before the races for luncheon, set a new record, when not one person came in for the entire afternoon. But one of the many improvements this year, the enclosed dining room adjacent to the Salvator terrace, came in handy and received a big play. Willie Hartack will again be absent this Saturday when he travels to Delaware to ride Palatine Stables Wreck Master in the Christiana Stakes. Last week end Willie was on the West Coast and Saturday fans have yet to see him in action here. Willie Hicks is shuttling back and forth between here and New York as he has about 10 horses in each sector. . . . Jimmy Radney is expected to send Mrs. E. H. Augustus Euclid here for next Wednesdays Longfellow Handicap, a mile event on the turf, in quest of a consecutive double. Euclid won a division of the race last year. Apprentice Willie Carpinelli, who hails from Philadelphia, rode the third winner of his career Wednesday and, oddly enough, it again was on Lady Rounders, trained by E. R. Rey. All of Willies wins were on the same mare. Tommy Korinis has taken over Carpinellis engagement book. . . . Artist Richard Stone Reeves was a luncheon guest of Townsend B. Martin, secretary of the Monmouth Park Jockey Club. ... Lou Cunningham and Marshall Bain-bridge, Jr., publicity directors for Atlantic City and Garden State, respectively, came up from the southern end of the state yesterday for a visit. . . . Presentations, other than stakes trophies, are always much in evidence at this meeting. Wednesday Eddie Yowell got one from Dick Reilly, president of the Round Table Club, which is a group of Hudson County businessmen with headquarters in Jersey City, while Eddie Brum-field received an award from Norman Rosenthal of the Boro Club of Deal. Members of both organizations attended in force. If some of the boys were not feeling too perky Wednesday, it was the after effects of a birthday party held for mutuel clerk Eddie ODonnell at the Old Orchard Golf Club. . . . Mrs. Lou Smith has mailed out an illustrated pamphlet showing some of the recipients of benefits from the crippled childrens non-sectarian fund, of which she is the driving force. . * . Tommy Earl, a member of the publicity departments at Garden State and Tropical, is engaged in a new line here. He has charge of the recreation hall on the backstretch. Offhand, • it looks like his main job is to guard the TV set there. One of the doors is missing and Tommy is there to see the rest of it doesnt disappear. Attention, J. J. Murphy: Lenny Goodman, Dave Gormans agent, is willing to wager you a box of cigars that American Byrd ran after his two-year-old career. American Byrd is the co-holder of the five-furlong track record at Lincoln Fields. Lenny knows he has a good bet because he rubbed the horse in New Orleans during the war. . . . Trainer Bobby Dotter almost lost two pumps from his litter of five English pointers. Early the other morning some one managed to lift two of them, but was apprehended by a guard at the gate. Two a. m. seemed like an unearthly hour to be parading around with a couple of puppies. . . . Trainer Bernie Fields, who is handling a division of Eugene Jacobs string here, is setting a record for mileage. He drives twice 4aily between here and his home in Brooklyn. That betters Bobby Ciceros stint, who only makes the- run daily to his new house in Staten Island.
