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LARGE CLASSY FIELD To Start in ,000 Added Wolverine Handicap at Detroit Today. Whopper With 130 Pounds Heads List of Sixteen Named Contestants Off Track Probable. DETROIT, Mich., June 18. By far the best field of handicap performers since the sport was revived at Detroit nearly four years ago, was named for the fourth running of the ,000 added Wolverine Handicap, which will be decided over one mile and one-sixteenth as the feature of tomorrows Fair Grounds program. Sixteen of the twenty-four eligibles were named for the stakes, which from present indications will be contested over an off track. Cloudy and cooler weather today probably will prevent the track from reaching its best condition. AT TOP OF HIS FORM. Hal Price Headleys Whopper, under 130 pounds, tops the big field and the winner of the Col. Alger Memorial Handicap, in addition to two other stakes this year, appears at the top of his form. He demonstrated last year in winning the 1936 renewal of the Pontchartrain Handicap that he favors the local course and despite his crushing impost he is expected to enjoy favoritism, although Fred M. Alger Jr.s Azucar, which will have Polar Flight as a companion, will come in for strong backing. Whopper had only half a length advantage over Azucar in the Alger Memorial and in that race he carried 126 pounds to Azucars 115. Tomorrow Azucar will pick up the same impost and the difference in weights and the fixture also being at the same distance should aid the Santa Anita Handicap winner. Millsdale Stables Infantry, which has not been under colors since winning the James Continued on thirty-eighth page. LARGE CLASSY FIELD! ; Continued from first page. j J. Braddock Handicap at Washington Park ; under 115 pounds ten days ago, will carry i 112 pounds and then follows the Mrs. E. Denemark entry of War Emblem and Cor- into under 109 pounds each. They finished back of Cardarrone, which finished third to Count Morse and Woodlander in the Great Western Handicap. KURTSINGER ON WAR EMBLEM. War Emblem will have the services of Charley Kurtsinger, while Corinto will be entrusted to the diminutive Sidney Hebert. Tempestuous, the hope of Mrs. Tom Stevenson, and H. C. Hatchs Uppermost will repre-i sent the Dominion. Uppermost and Tempestuous finished first and second respectively before Ariel Cross in the King George VI. Coronation Handicap at Woodbine. Tempestuous allotment is 107 pounds and Uppermost gets in under 104 pounds. Infantry suffered the most in the draw for post positions, when he was assigned No. 16. In the event all start, he, Siam and probably Stocks will have to begin from outside of the Bahr gate. The race, which in the event of sixteen starters, will gross ,040, but First Entry and Stocks are listed in the doubtfrl column. Despite the chances for other than a fast track, a well-balanced program will support the feature, which will serve as the sixth number. With all of the boxes sold and reservations in the clubhouse greater than at any time this year, excepting Decoration Day, Clarence E. Lehr, president and general manager, said only a break in the weather is nedeed to attract a crowd rivalling that of Decoration Day. j ;
