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Detroit to Do Part To Aid War Effort Will Donate Gate Receipts For First Three Saturdays To War Relief Agencies DETROIT, Mich., May 20 Officials of the Detroit Racing Association are solidly behind the United States war effort and their plans during the 73-day summer meeting, which opens here Saturday and closes on August 15, fall for a concerted effort to aid in every possible way. Track executives made their first important announcement today when they stated that all gate receipts for the first three Saturdays of the impending 1942 session will be donated to war relief agencies. All admission fees to the Fair Grounds on inaugural day, May 23, Memorial Day, May 30, and Saturday, June 6, will be divided equally among the Navy Relief Fund, Army Relief Fund, American Red Cross and the United Service Organization. Memorial Day has always drawn the largest attendance of any date on the Detroit Racing Associations schedule while the inaugural should also prove a banner day as far as the crowd is concerned. The third Saturday turnstile turnover will probably be one of the best of the session inasmuch as racing secretary Charles F. Henry has arranged an outstanding program for presentation on that day. Horses Arriving Daily Track officials estimate that over 5,000 will be realized for the various war time charities. Flans for still further war aid are now under consideration and those arrangements will be made public at a later date. In the meantime at the Motor City oval thoroughbreds are arriving from all racing fronts and several establishments boast some of the fleetest stock in the nation. Never in the history of the Detroit track have so many contingents been on hand to participate in the sport. One of the latest units to arrive at the Fair Grounds is that of Coward and Du-puy, which is trained by the popular Rand A. Coward. Heading this pretentious stable is Marriage, who recently won the 5,000 Gray Lag Handicap at Jamaica. Others in the Coward-conditioned shipment are Hypocrite, Exemplify, Ariel Boy, Air Hostess, Fiery Steel, Sun Mica, Early Settler, Bright Ann, Counterglow and Count Happy. Coward announced after arrival here that he had signed the vet-eral jockey, Johnny Longden, to handle his charges in their stakes and handicap engagements. Longden will commute between the Motor City course and various tracks on the Metropolitan racing circuit.
