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RAIN FALLS AT DETROIT i Gloomy Weather Prevails for Inaugural of Final Week. Withdrawals Few With Track Faster - Than Ever Dark Zeni Earns First Purse of Year. DETROIT, Mich., June 29 Intermittent showers that followed cloudy and gloomy weather prevailed as Detroit swung into its final week of the spring and summer racing this afternoon. The unfavorable conditions h.ad little effect on the attendance, for it was in keeping with other wash day crowds. The showers only served to whip the track into better condition and fast time was recorded in most of the races. Luckily, large fields were entered in most of the eight contests and the withdrawals, which were few, only served to make more spirited racing. Incidentally, close finishes were the rule instead of the exception and several of the events were decided by margins so close that before the numbers were displayed the picture "was called for. I Two races, one a six-furlong sprint and the other at a mile and seventy yards, topped the program, and although the latter was a Handicap affair it was for members from the claiming ranks. The sprint that was the fifth enabled Dark Zeni, from the stable of Paul Kelley, to win his first race of the year, i when he led High Torque, Prince Heather and four others to the end. Under 107 founds and ridden by Louis Guymon, he ran the distance in the creditable time of 1:12, to be a length before High Torque at the close. PRINCE HEATHER THIRD. Prince Heather was forced to come from q, good ways back to catch the tiring Surveyor by a nose for minor honors. From the start High Torque, Surveyor and Bald Crest dominated the pace, but after the latter forged to the front High Torque came again to be a length before the winner as they approached the final furlong. During the run to the wire Dark Zeni, which was on the inside of the field, rapidly wore her down to be drawing away at the end. Running the mile and seventy yards in 1:42, which equalled the track record held Jointly by Sir Jim James and Our Count, Genteel Lady, under F. A. Griffiths colors and a castoff from the locally-owned Dixiana stable, was an easy winner of the Ford City Handicap, which shared feature honors. Chastity was second and Zsar third. Ridden by Johnny Mattioli and under 105 pounds, the winner took command at the start to make every post a winning one and lead Chastity by four lengths at the finish. The latter was slightly more than a length bcfore Zsar, which was a strong factor from the start. CHASTITY FAVORED. After racing five-sixteenths where Center Lane tired, Chastity moved into second place, but she tired after offering a mild bid approaching the stretch turn. Chastity, under top weight of 112 pounds, was the favorite. Imperial Polly carried the locally-owned Oddesa Farms colors to an easy victory over Bernard F., Gaul and five other maiden plater juveniles in the first race at five and one-half furlongs. Cleverly handled by Glen Smith and unable to keep up early, the winner, a daughter of Polymelian and Livia, worked her way forward on the inside of her field, and after being guided to the outside entering the stretch, rapidly wore Bernard F. down to lead him by four lengths at the end. Some three lengths separated Bernard F., which was backed into favoritism, a"hd Gaul at the end. The latter outfinished Hi-Sweet, a head separating the pair at the close. ,A hard fought contest and another surprise came with the second race, when C. H. Neals Steponit reached the end of the three-quarters second race a length before Wig-rose. The latter was a neck before Fela-wake, which lasted to beat Gypsie Chief, the favorite, by a nose for minor honors. From the start, the field of nine raced in close order, with Rain or Shine and Gypsie Chief dominating the pace. Entering the stretch, Glen Smith drove Felawake to the front, but Mattioli brought the winner up on ,andConiinued on thirty-eighth page.. RAIN FALLS AT DETROIT Continued from first page. the outside to take command in the last sixteenth and win drawing away. Princess Pyre and Rain or Shine tired in the drive, while Dorothy Hicks was blocked when improving her position in the stretch. Don Vern was always far back. Soeur Blanche won her first race in two years when she accounted for the third race, at one mile and seventy yards. Reelaway was second, and Ulrica third. Well ridden by Leroy Pierson and never far back, Soeur Blanche forged to the front in the stretch to lead Reelaway by slightly more than a length at the end. Rushed to the front on the inside nearing the final quarter, Ulrica was unable to withstand the leaders and tired. After leading the eleven for more than five-eighths, Magic Line, which enjoyed favoritism, quit badly. In another sparkling finish and one that required the picture to select the winner, L. B. Wilson, from the stable of Mrs. H. Mc-Ilvain got up to beat Albuquerque by a nose at the end of the fourth race. Royal Command was third, a length back of Albuquerque and a neck before John Bane, which reached contention through saving ground entering the stretch. L. B. Wilson, which was chalking up his first success of the year, was close up from the start, but R. Wholey elected to save him when Albuquerque and Royal Command went out to show the way. During the run through the stretch, L. B. Wilson steadily wore down the leaders to gain the verdict at the end. Albuquerque was a slight favorite over the winner.
