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I On the Trot TrotL L By MOBBIE KUBIANSKY 1 1Disc Disc Jockey Derby Begins Tonight Elimination Heat to Precede Card Five Seasons Record Holders Here HereMAYWOOD MAYWOOD PARK Maywood 111 April 30 Fans and radio enthusiasts alike will be offered a special treat heje Tuesday when the first elimina ¬ tion heat of the newly created Disc Jockey Derby will be held at 800 p m prior to the regular ninerace pro ¬ gram Participants in this first mile dash will be Jim Mills WAAF Bob Carpenter WAAF Dan Sorkin WCFL and Richard Stamz of WGESWBKB Other contestants in three elimination heats May 8 15 and 21 will be Jim Darris WEDC Dick Elliot WHFC Tony Ford WGES Dick Harley WHFC Jim Lounsbuiy WON Paul Saliner WGN Steve Schickel WGN Jack Stilwill WLS and Spider Webb WAIT Negotiations with Daddyo Dailey Marty Fay Vince Garrity Jack Eigen Bob Elson Jack Brickhouse Larry Wind and other announcers and sports casters are under way If TwoTon Baker decides to participate there will be the problem where to get a sulky for him In any case there will be four races for the Bis jockeys for the next four Tuesdays with the winners of each heat coming back for the grand final May 29 Most of the platter spinners have been in serious train ¬ ing for the past several days to pick the rudimentary knowledge how to go on a ride with a fleet trotter or pacer and one of them already lias said hell forsake the mike for the sulky if he wins the final finalFive Five seasons recorfl holders are cur ¬ rently stabled here Two of them made the r respective marks at the Westside oval Bold Rodney a threeyearold roH owned by Brightside Farms trotted the mile in 209VS while Sherrys Honor a pacing mare owned by Lester Pletclier j raced in 203f Danny Byrd a recent winner here holds the mile track record for threeyearold pacinzr colts ih his Santa Anita mile in 205 Howard Bcissingers Blue Goose is the leading f oi ryearold pacing gelding with f 2 03 raiJe also raced at Santa Anita FiLos Bomb is credited with a 201V mie 3t Santa Anita but hasnt started here yet yetMarathan Marathan Hanover victor in the 60000 Illinois State Fair Colt Stakes last year and a winner in 205 here last fall made a successful New York debut a few days ago With Johnny Simnson in the slky the fouryearold gelding scoring from fourth position made a break at the first pole but raced into the lead on the out ¬ side in 105 at the half and was a handy winner Another Illinois trotter row racing for Eastern interests made good at Roosevelt Raceway He is the sixvearold Volaton stallion Jochovolo formeviv owned by Herman Graham of Sal m Til Trrinpr Fddie Cobb scored two victoves with fbp former Grand Circuit stakes win ¬ ner at the Long Island plant plantDel Del Jnsko leading driver at the re ¬ cently concluded Magnolia Park meet ¬ ing arrived here over the week end wilh liis public stable Probably the youngest driver to gain chamnionship honors at an extended parimutuel meeting Jnsko comes from a long line of Iowa horse ¬ men and is firmly grounded in his pro ¬ fession He first made tlie headlines t o years ago when he was hailed by the Los Angeles press as the brightest rising star among sulky pilots The toofhmch chewjng youngster defeated such ot staridinir teamsters as Joe OBrien Hnrry Fitzpatrick and Bi Shively on numerous occasion at Hollywood Park ami Fa ta Anita While it is probably too Jtc for him to endanger Bruce Nickells Bob Parkinson Mel Harmening and Gern Kiflwell at the current session D1 r rs s iit j still b able to wind up among the first 10 leaders here hereFrog Frog Redden shipped his public stable to Buffalo Raceway at Hamburg N Y The outhern trainer started here 26 times won hree races placed once and was third seven times Nickells exercised his option and boupht the promising four yearold pacing colt Grand Scott a triple winner at j this meeting from his ownerbreeder W I H Hecht of Celina Ohio at an undisclosed sum Nickells had the pacer leased from j Hecht as well as Miss Braderi Volo Grand Lake Volo and Shecan pace The other horses orobably will be sold this week too as JNickells has received several lucrative offers offersTom Tom Wilburn the successful trainer driver from Artesia Miss notified rac ¬ ing secretary John Jenuine that he will arrive here from his southern winter training quarters by midweek Wilburn an accomplished horseman who is active in all phases of the sport is a great ad ¬ vocate ofTclaimhig races He feels that thise particular type of race eases the j everexisting problem of proper classi ¬ fication ficationOscar Oscar Mapes private trainer for Arthur T Gait reported the birth of a chestnut filly this morning The little miss is a daughter orthe former doublegaited world champion Mighty Song standing at Wal ¬ nut Hall Farm Lexington Ky and Gaits own mare Fayette Hanover one of the nations outstanding female trotters in her three and fouryearold form Mapes just came back from Lexington where he shipped Fayette Hanovers half sister Fay Scotland due to foal to Worthy Boy the latter part of May Fay Scotland has been booked to Goose Bay
