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Connors Corner By Chuck! Connors Fans Fail to Heed Traffic Instructions Create Big Jam in Hurry to Leave Track Absent Box Lessees Create Bad Feeling BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 31. It Jhas been said that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. To a certain extent the traffic cops of the New York and Nassau County police departments subscribe to the ad-age. Yesterday was the acid test for the new look at Belmont Park and when the day was completed thousands of motorists were advised to read the signs and not to create traffic jams when leaving the track. Well, the warning went for naught and despite the whistling and hand traffic directional signals, many insisted on adhering to the old look. Blooie, the first thing you know a couple of the stalwarts were tied jup in the middle of a flock of cars trying to unlock as neat a traffic jam as you could find at any suburban railroad station at rush hours. Well, everybody got home somehow or other but the next few days the dulcet tones of Fred Capossela will blare from the public address system advising the motorists to study the traffic map in the program and discard their belligerency to all traffic cops and obey the signals. Decoration Day was fittingly observed at the nations racing centers and the attendance marks held up very well. Belmont Park was well up among the leaders in that department and the running of the Carter Handicap was a fine spectacle. However, there ointment and one that stood was one big flaw in the out like a bandaged thumb. In the sacrosanct clubhouse, many of the box lessees did not show up. The result was glaring patches of vacancies. It was remarked by many standing in the sun along the well- packed lawn that holders of such boxes be penalized when they do npt show up or at least send word to the seating committee so that the space may be turned over to the first applicant. We doubt if it will ever turn out this way, but vacant spaces in the clubhouse on big days is not looked upon with favor by the guys and dolls standing on the lawn unable to find a chair or bench to rest their weary tootsies following the long trek from the train shed or the parking lots. Zauderers to Miss Poly His Bid Mr. and Mrs. S. George Zauderer will miss the running of the National Stallion Stakes. They will be abroad when their two-year-old Poly Hi goes postward in that event. . . . Johnny Cordes, the veteran from New Yorks finest, was on hand yesterday. He plans to leave for Florida, where he now makes his winter home, for a few days fishing Charlie Ferrera, one of the veterans of the training ranks, died at his Brooklyn, N. Y., home yesterday. Funeral services will be announced later. Ferrera was the man under whom trainer Hirsch Jacobs launched his turf career. . . . Harry LaMontagne, the internationalist, reported that his campaigner, Goulash, came out of his last start with a split ear. It seems that while at the post, according to LaMontagne, one of the assistants used a mechanical gadget on the horse and when the start was effected Goulash lunged and the assistant was slow in releasing the mechanical adjunct. Bernard Baruch, the elder statesman, was a visitor yesterday. He is an avid student of racing affairs and is still tracing the descendents of his great sprinter, Happy Argo. . . . Mr. and Mrs. James Cox Brady came over from New Jersey for the big afternoon. . . . Bernard Gimbel, the Thirty-Fourth Street merchan-dizer, forgot all about the industry for a looksee at -some racing. . . . Charlie Block, the Miami Beach patron, planed up from the Florida center for a few days racing. . . . Jock McCue came down from Stamford, Conn., to represent the Brae Burn Farm. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Donn were clubhouse visitors during the afternoon. They plan an extension of their vacation time to enjoy New Yorks balmy climate. . . . Jimmy Read, a veteran of the racing ranks, he rode here and abroad shortly after the turn of the century, deserted the realtors field in Connecticut for the week end. ... J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson relaxed during the afternoon while studying the overnight past performances. ... Sir Victor Sassoon, whose name is on the roster of owners of Epsom Derby winners, was a spectator yesterday. Jacobs to Breed Stymie Mares Abroad Mr. and Mrs. Leon "Jake" Swirbul were among the visitors. He was a former member of the state racing commission Mr. and Mrs. Danny Van Clief plan to leave for their Virginia home on Sunday. . . . Trainer Hirsch Jacobs reported that he will ship some Stymie mares to Europe this fall and next spring. They will be bred to either English or Irish studs. He also said that he lost a dozen foals at the Riverside, Calif., farm from dysentery and other ailments. However, he has 82 broodmares in Maryland, Kentucky and California, quite a collection. Yesterday he added another when he purchased Dizzy Lady from Henry Fiol, The new acquisition will be shipped to the Maryland farm and next spring join the matrons there. He added that Sweet Wendy G., winner of the opening race yesterday, was bred to Our John Wm. this spring.
