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DISCOVERY AND AZUCARJ — ■ — 1 Meet in Detroit Challenge Cup at Mile and Three-Sixteenths. ♦ Injury to Head Play Leaves Only Above Noted Pair to Contest in Motor Citys Big Special. — ♦ DETROIT, Mich., June 28.— Although racing in recent years has been robbed of much of its glamour, that included match races, two, three and four-mile heats, reminiscences of those old days spring up at times and makes the lover of thoroughbred horses long for those old days when they raced them from "end to end." Unfortunately for the Detroit Racing Association, tomorrows Detroit Challenge Cup has dwindled into a match affair, with only Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Discovery and Fred M. Alger, Jr.s Azucar accepting for j [ the mile and three-sixteenths journey that will be worth 0,000 and 00 in starting fees to the winner and ,500 to the second I j horse. Match races dropped out when the pari- ! I mutuel system of betting took command. Of I course, there have been several great ones i since this form of wagering was inaugu-.rated in Kentucky nearly three decades ago, , but they have been few and far between. ! In the early days of match races, dating | back to the four-mile heat race between Lex- | I ington and Le Compte at New Orleans about j the time of the Civil War, up to the Man o j I War — Sir Barton race held at Kenilworth, , 1 j across the river, there have been intermingled • I some of the historic duels in the t history of racing. The passing generation I | recalls the tremendous interest in the match race between Freeland and Miss Woodford in the early 80s and the four-mile heat race : between Frank Harpers Ten Broeck, the 1 pride of Kentucky, and Tom Winters Mollie ! McCarthy, the champion of the West Coast. NOTABLE RACES OF PAST. Later on came the match races between , Salvator and Tenny. Ridden by two of the ; greatest race riders of modern times, , "Snapper" Garrison and Isaac Murphy, the ; latter the greatest Negro rider of all times. , Tenny and Salvator raced twice at a mile ! and a quarter to nose decisions, with Salvator - on the winning end each time. Then 1 came the match race between Tammany and 1 j Lamplighter and later on the heart-breaking ; contest between Omar Khayyam and Hour-less - at Laurel, when the two horses raced I the full mile and a quarter with never more s than a head between them. The contest between the English Derby . winner, Papyrus, and Zev at Belmont Park is of recent history. A heavy rain the night t and morning of the race proved the undoing of Papyrus, for his English trainer preferred 1 to run the horse without caulks or toes. Then came the Zev and In Memoriam race at Churchill Downs, the finish of which caused more arguments than prohibition, , although the official placing went to Zev. Fresh from his brilliant triumph in the Brooklyn Handicap last Saturday, in which he set a new worlds record for a mile and a furlong. Discovery will go to the post a , prohibitive favorite. Although he appeared not to favor the ; track last year, when he was badly beaten t in the Detroit Derby by Cavalcade, Discovery . worked very kindly over it since arriving . here Monday. AZUCAR MUCH IMPROVED. Azucar, a converted jumper, has been under . colors three times during the meeting. In his first essay, in the Col. Alger Memorial . Handicap, he was soundly beaten by r Stand Pat, and in the Derby Week Special 1 Handicap, Head Play and Stand Pat led him , to the finish of the mile and a furlong. Last t Saturday he was no match for the three-year-olds . Paradisical and Sun Portland in ! the Pontchartrain Handicap. Since then he , turned in his best work since the meeting T opened. Possessing more early speed than Azucar, Discovery is certain to race into a good lead early and, a natural rail runner, he should Continutd on thirty-first page. DISCOVERY AND AZUCAR Continued from first page. experience little trouble in withstanding the long-striding son of Milesius. To prevent him from bearing in, his rider always carries a steel on his left boot. He .JjyjflfliyjiJTnvBejshak, who has handled him in most of his races. "Sonny" Workman was substituted for Bejshak in the Detroit Derby last year, and, as that was the worst effort Discovery turned in all year, it appeared that a change in riders failed to accomplish anything. George Woolf, the hard-riding lad from the western plains who drove Azucav to his Santa Anita Handicap success, will direct the Alger gelding. There is no trick of the trade that Woolf has not mastered and, although it appears he has a hopeless task, he will be in there with his stinging bat. Azucar will carry 127 pounds to Discoverys 126. It is a weight-for-age affair and, with the distance a mile and three-sixteenths, the weights for the shorter or mile distance governs. The two horses had their final "blowouts* this morning. Both breezed a half mile, Azucar running the distance in :48 and Discovery in :48%. Supporting the feature are eight racefl, which will make nine races to be offered. All of them are at distances of a mile oir over. 1 Despite the seeming impossibility of staging the race, there has been a great demand for reserved seats. Although at first the management announced that complimentary badges would not be honored, Clarence E. Lehr, president of the association, stated this morning that all complimentary badges, would be honored.
