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JOCKEYS MUST USE WHIPS Michigan Adopts New Rule Prohibiting Riders Carrying "Bats" if Instructed Against Their Use. DETROIT, Mich., May 19— Jockeys who ride at the Detroit race track this season will use their whips when it appears they are needed to hustle a lagging mount which has a chance to get in the money, or else face suspension. A ruling proposed by presiding steward Jack S. Young and issued by commissioner Joseph Frost of Saginaw, provides that any jockey who is ordered by the trainer or owner not to use his whip on a horse must turn in his whip to the paddock judge before the race and a note will be made on the matter. Whips will not be allowed as equipment on such horses thereafter until satisfactory explanation is made to the officials. Young made the ruling because, he said, owners who do not wish their horses punished sometimes tell their jockeys not to use a whip. It may be useless to use a whip in some cases, but the head steward declared that racegoers found it hard to understand why jockeys sometimes simply carried their whips in tight finishes instead of trying to use it on their mounts.
