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DETROIT HOLDS "OPEN HOUSE" ; Large Crowd Visits Fair Grounds on? Sunday Azucar Interests. rSanta Anita Handicap Winner Gallops Easy 1 Three-Quarters and Appears in Fine j Fettle Horses Pouring In. DETROIT, Mich., May 20. If Sundays open house at the Fair Grounds is any in-" dication of public interest, the Detroit Racing Association is in for a big meeting when it opens its gates Thursday. Several thousand people passed through the gates, and at one time the grandstand looked as though a race meeting was on. Chief interest centered in the public work of Azucar, the pride of Detroit. Breaking at the three-quarter post; the Santa Anita Handicap winner galloped an easy three-quarters in 1:16. He appeared perfectly-sound and at his top form. He may be sent , for the Alger Memorial Stake on Decoration Day, but will be given a special preparation for the Challenge Cup to be run June 29. With the close of Louisville, Dallas, San Antonio and the coming closing of Aurora, horses are coming from all direcitons, and. before race time the indications are that every stall will be filled. Saturday arrivals included the Lone Star Stable of Johnny Theall, headed by the use-H ful Rip Van Winkle; Burley Park, with three; F. Speelman, four; H. Torriente, five;; Sam Orr, five; F. C. Dunne, five; Johnny Zoeller, three; E. Sigman, six. Monday the horses of Leroy King and Charley Gross -with seven of Clyde. Van Du-sens and one of his own arrived. Van Dusen will commute with the Dixiana horses between Chicago and Detroit. Other arrivalsj Monday were Ed Drillon, from California; George La Fleash, Elmtree, T. P. Morgan and A. S. Marchant from New York; A. E. Silver, C. A. Marrone with Ted Clark and j others; Johnny Burtschell, with the Henry Dattner horses, including Chance Queen; I. Kor.t; Waldo Freeman, with the Fishburn j string; J. J. Collins, Ohio racing commissioner; Charley Hainesworth, with Black-j birder, a Detroit Derby entry, and other smaller establishments. The pretentious Le Mar Stock Farm horses, in charge of Harry Hart, will be in Tuesday, and Benny Creech wired that he was shipping from Chicago the middle of the week. The entries for the Inaugural, at six furlongs, close Tuesday, but the closing of the Wolverine Stake, to be run Saturday, will be held open until Wednesday to allow latecomers to get in. The new racing commissioner, Mr. Frost, promises to become a most popular official with the visiting horsemen. Whether the one man commission is the proper form of racing control is a moot question, but Michigan has been singularly happy in its selection of the men to govern the sport. Mark Hanna, the first commissioner, had high ideals in respect to the sport, and the new commissioner, a wealthy resident of Saginaw, has taken hold of affairs in a manner which augurs well for the sport. One of his very practical ideas and one that will make him popular with the horsemen is a policy to take as much as possible the burden of expense from them. He has abolished the license fees for grooms and stable boys, although he will issue a license to each of them to keep control of the situation. The license fee for trainers and jockeys will be , and there will be no sliding scale upward as the season progresses. The license fee for platers has also been abolished. Where a stable has an established assumed name, no fee will be charged but where a new name is established the fee will be 5. He has promised the horsemen and the Detroit Racing Association the hearties co-operation to make the meeting a success.
