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Top Ceiling in Popular Score at Detroit Course Under Mild Pressure to Whip Snooks Winters by Two Lengths PAIR GROUNDS, Detroit, Mich., June 20. Cloudy but warm weather greeted a crowd of 12,500 at Detroit today where the track had not fully dried out from the recent heavy and frequent rains. The seventh and "eighth races divided interest as the best contests, both being under the same conditions, except that the former was a six furlongs sprint and the nightcap number a gallop at one mile and a sixteenth. Top Ceiling, racing for J. Braglio and installed an odds-on choice, justified that confidence when he accounted for the first race by leading home W. J. Susinis Snooks Winters by two lengths. Slightly more than a length farther back Al Wellmans Gray Dottie was third. The winner was ridden by jockey Jack Robertson, was timed the six furlongs in 1:16 over a slow track and paid .60. Except for a few yards immediately after the start the winner dominated the running opening up a clear lead racing before Harv Aethel in the early stages. The latter was soon done and Snooks Winters moved into second place. Entering the stretch Top Ceiling began to drift out and Snooks Winters was sent up on the inside to make his bid. Robertson put Top Ceiling under mild pressure to the end to retain his advantage.
