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DETROIT ARRANGES FOR VANS Offers Inducements for Horsemem Campaigning at Chicago Tracks Motor City Officials to Stand Half of SUf ping Expenses for Horses Entered in Stakes DETROIT Mich May 22 With a view to holding as many as possible Of the high claw horses in the Middle West the Detroit Rac ¬ ing Association is submitting to the horse ¬ men who are to race at Detroit and Chicago some inducements to give them an oppor ¬ tunity to choose between the stakes at two major race tracks tracksActing Acting under authority from president Clarence E Lehr director of racing Joseph A Murphy has arranged with the Carey van people of Chicago a schedule of prices for vanning horses from Chicago to Detroit and return The prices agreed on are round trip for one horse 100 two horses 125 and three or four horses 150 The Detroit As ¬ sociation has also agreed in order to take the burden of expense as far as possible off the horsemen to divide the vanning charge where horses that may be stabled at Chicago are consigned to stakes here Frank J Carey Jr has been appointed an agent by the Detroit Racing Association to look after the comfort of the horsemen horsemenUnder Under the arrangement vans will leave Chicago on Wednesday evening and remain in Detroit until Sunday morning when start ¬ ers in the stakes will be returned to the Windy City CityNO NO STAKE CONFLICTS CONFLICTSWith With the present arrangement of stakes at Detroit and Washington Park there will be only one conflict and that between the Colonel Alger Memorial Handicap here and the Blue and Gray Handicap at Washington Park on May 31 when Memorial Day will be celebrated On this day there will be no solicitation ChicagoWhile of horses from Chicago While judge Murphy was in Chicago he also arranged a working agreement with president Charles Krutckoff and Charles W Bidwill under which Hawthorne and Detroit will work in close cooperation during the fall meeting in an effort to hold as many first class stables as possible in the Middle West With Maryland opening and the other major race tracks in the East in full opera ¬ tion the competition will be keen keenThe The Hawthorne Stake dates have already been set and the racing secretary at Detroit will be instructed to so schedule the stakes in the Motor City so that there will be no conflict at all in the class and conditions of the stake races Hawthorne will also absorb half of the vanning charge at its fall meet ¬ ing and representatives of both tracks will work in the most cordial manner so as to give the horsemen the benefit of running at all of the stakes at both places
