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CAMPAU TO REDEEM GROSSE POINTE TRACK. Detroit Papers Say There Will he No Running: Meeting Under Cella Regime This Year. Detroit Dally Newspapers say that the action of f lie Grand Circuit Stewards in allotting datcs for the usual trotting meeting at Grosse Pointe- track for lOOt! means that Louis A. Cella, who bought the track under foreclosure proceedings September 11 last, ,is not to secure possession of the property; that D. J. Cam pan has arranged to redeem the track before the expiration of the six months following the. sale which will be on March 11, and that there will be no meeting for running horses held there tills year: The comment of the .Detroit News on the subject follows: , "This means that the Grosse Polnte track will be in commission, arid mn under the same conditions as heretofore. The six months allowed for the redemption of the track by Mr. D. J. Campau will see the property taken np by him. "Arid Mr. Cella of the Western Jockey Club, who took it in the foreclosure last September, will be only too happy to get rid of so big an incumbrance on his hands. He secured the track subject to redemption when it "was planned to push the turf war into Detroit, but things have changed since then, the Highland Park track has been abandoned, there is.no place in Canada near Windsor where the Western Jockey Club" can fight the Windsor meeting, and Prosecutor Hunts anti-gambling ruling makes a track, on this side worthless for Mr. Cellas purposes. "The question is whether any pooling will be allowed on driving races at Grosse Pointe during the grand circuit." The Detroit Free Press says: "There has been talk of a crusade .against poolselling, but It is not believed that a high-class institution like the "Blue Ribbon meeting will be interfered with. It cannot be stopped there without an attack being made, also, on the state fair. The latter Institution cannot be conducted profitably without racing, and racing without the pools will not go. Incidentally, with the announcement of a Blue Ribbon meeting here, it will be hardly necessary to pay further attention to the Cella-Adler-Tllles crowd that has been planning to put the bangtails on the Pointe course, and whose methods are those that Prosecutor Hunt had reference to In his talk about racetrack gambling."
