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Hollywood Park Meet Gets Under Way With Eighteen in Premiere Handicap High Resolve, Galla Damiori And Buzfuz Match Strides In Opening-Day Feature HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 23. The 50-day meeting of the Hollywood Turf Club begins here tomorrow with a program featured by the 5,000 Premiere Handicap, a sprint of six furlongs for three-year-old and older horses which drew one of the strongest fields ever assembled for this event. Extensive preparations have been made and more than 35,-000 are expected to be on hand to help get under way a meeting which will compare favorably with the best conducted in Southern California in many years. The Premiere Handicap, the opening days feature, attracted among others, two co-holders of the worlds seven-furlong record of 1:22. They are E. O. Stice and Sons High Resolve and C. J. Sebastians Galla Damipn, both ready for top performances. Each won his only race at Tan-foran, Galla Damions success having come in the 0,000 Vigilante Handicap. High Resolve will be trying for his second Premiere victory, for he won it two years ago. Other notable entries in tomorrows headliner include the Sunshine Stables Buzfuz, winner of the Toboggan Handicap, Stitch Again, who carried the Circle B Ranch colors into second place in the Santa Anita Handicap; See-tee-see, winner of the Santa Catalina Handicap for the Hacienda de Cortez; El Lobo, the Stuart Hamblen speedster, who accounted for the San Antonio Handicap and Texas Sandman, who took the San Carlos Handicap last winter for W. D. Rorex. In all, 18 of the original nominees were entered in the Premiere. HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 23. Grooms attending horses at Hollywood Park met last night and voted to withdraw their demands for 5 per cent of purses earned by stables which employ them. This latest decision of the stable employes removes, temporarily at least, the threat of a labor dispute which might interfere with the progress of the Hollywood Park meeting, which gets under way tomorrow. The grooms a week ago presented to owners and trainers a demand for fiiini-mum salaries of 50 per month and a. percentage of purses. Horsemen rejected the proposals at a mass meeting here last Sunday.
