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■ Hi % 4 jH ■ , , Call Truce Until Wednesday In Purse Dispute at Detroit FREDERICK E. HARRIS— Michigan racing commissioners effort resulted in a truce being called in the purse dispute at the Detroit track. f Horsemen Agree to Move So As to Permit Track Directors To Hold Meeting on Monday By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., June 21. — There will be racing tomorrow at the Detroit race track. Turfmen, members of the Michigan division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, and Michigan Racing Association officials, today declared a truce through Wednesday, June 27, in their dispute over purse distribution. The break in the horsemens strike came about this afternoon after Michigan racing commissioner Frederick E. Harris intervened to prevent an interruption in the sport at the local course. Harris, who was instrumental last year in setting a similar purse dispute and threatened strike at Hazel Park, called president Harry W. Lindy, of the local division of the HBPA, and vice-president George Haggarty, of the MRA, in for consultations. Begin Filing Entries After Commissioner Harris talked the matter over with Lindy, the HBPA head immediately called a horsmens meeting and the vote to make a truce through next Wednesday followed. Owners and trainers, who shunned the entry boxes at the regular hours earlier in the day, then filtered into the racing secretarys office and began filling the Friday program races. The Truce, as set up through the efforts of commissioner Harris, Lindy, and Hag-Continued on Page Thirty-Nine ,,;-.. CYRUS S. JULLIEN— President of the Queens County Jockey Club, at whose Aqueduct course a 20-day meeting begins today. Truce Until Wednesday In Detroit Purse Dispute Will Give Track Directors Time To Hold Meeting on Monday Continued from Page One garty will give the Michigan Racing Association board of directors time to meet and discuss the horsemens plea for higher purses. President E. E. Dale Shaffer, of the MRA, had already announced that the local racing organizations directorate would convene Monday. After a meeting Wednesday night, the local HBPA division voted to strike this morning, adopting a resolution not to fill the races for Friday, June 22, unless a satisfactory purse increase had been negotiated. The truce voted on today undoubtedly will aid in bringing about an amicable settlement of the entire situation. Vice-president Lindy and the members of the HBPA originally asked for a daily purse increase of ,000 but this figure was later pared to a per diem outlay of 7,500. Today, the horsemen were standing pat on that figure while track officials held to an offer of a 00 increase, which would bring the daily purse distribution up to slightly more than 5,000. Immediately after the affair was temporarily settled, Lindy dispatched the following bulletin to all members of the Michigan division of the HBPA: "A request has been .made by Michigan State Racing Commissioner Frederick E. Harris that the drastic action taken by the Michigan division of the HBPA against the Michigan Racing Association be postponed until the first of the week inasmuch as the MRA is without power or authority to act until a meeting of their entire board of directors, scheduled for Monday, June 25, 1951, takes place. "Your full executive committee acting in emergency session has therefore decided to grant the above request. "Therefore, entries will be made by our members this afternoon for tomorrows races. Also, we will fill races for this Saturday, June 23; for Monday, June 25, and for Tuesday, June 26. "In the event a satisfactory settlement has not been reached by Monday, June 25, we will not enter Tuesday, June 26, for the Wednesday, June 27, program. "Your executive committee wishes to stress the fact that we are still holding to our requests as outlined at our general meeting and, also, that any benefits will be retroactive to June 11, 1951. "In keeping with our past policy of us«-ing every means at our disposal to achieve our just demands we are granting the above."
