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DETROIT WORK PROGRESSING Judge Joseph A. Murphy Spends Sunday in Motor City Inspecting Fair Grounds Track. After spending Sunday in Detroit, Joseph A. Murphy, who will serve as director oi racing at the meeting there, which opens September 2, reported that the work was progressing satisfactorily in putting the big plant in shape. Norman Miller has called to his aid one of the largest contractors in Detroit, who has one of the most complete equipments of machinery in that city. The track has been carried down to grade, levelled off, and set for the top dressing of our inches of sandy loam, which sixty trucks will commence placing this morning. The track complete and trim, will be turned over to the track superintendent not later than Friday. Anton Bezchleba, who is in charge of the construction and re-. modelling of the plant, has started the erection of four hundred additional stalls and the placing in perfect order of those already on the ground. The administration and jockey building is a substantial office building used for the State Fair and directly back of the grandstand. In addition to an infield paddock, such as is used at Hawthorne, another paddock will be erected under the bleacher grandstand in case of bad weather. When finished the track will be one of the safest in the United States. Judge Murphy took breakfast with Mark Hanna, the new commissioner of racing, Clarence E. Lehr, the secretary and general manager, and the leading sports writers of Detroit, after which all of them went to the grounds. Mr. Hanna told Judge Murphy that his sole interest in racing was to see that only, the better class of horsemen and riders were allowed to participate in Detroit racing1 and that the officials would have an absolutely free hand in seeing that the racing was kept above reproach. Speaking of the interview. Judge Murphy said: "Mr. Hanna is a most delightful person and his ideas of racing are so completely in agreement with my own ideals that I am satisfied that we will get along famously. The Detroit Racing Association, which 1 am representing, is composed of high class men whose sole object is to give Detroit the best that can be had in the way of sport and I have never been associated with a venture which started off so completely with the right foot forward. I am satisfied that undesirable promotion, either American or .alien, will have hard sledding in Michigan. Governor Comstock and his entire staff will formally open thes racing on September "2 and will remain oyer for Labor Day. The name of the feature that day has been changed from the Wolverine to the Governors Handicap.
