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Twenty-One Twenty-One Seek Seek Wright Wright Memorial; Memorial; Another Another Truce Truce Declared Declared at at Detroit Detroit Take Entries After Late Hour Confab Union Official Intervenes To Bring Parties Together So Meeting May Continue By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., June 26.— Horse racing will continue at Michigan Racing Associations Detroit race track tomorrow as horsemen and management reached another temporary truce in their purse negotiations today. Union official Ray Carroll submitted z proposal whereby his mutuel union members provide 00 of the ,500 that separates the track and the horsemen frorr agreement. He asked that the horsemer come down 00 and that the track raist its current offer 00. All sides were stunned at union intervention in a purse problem but agreed U further consideration of the problem, thu£ averting the strike, called this morning. Carroll, head of the Building Service Employes International Union AFL, 65 of whose members are employed as mutue clerks, and maintenance men and womer at the Detroit race track, called a meeting of the horsemen and track officials latx this afternoon concerning the strike, ant it was at this meeting that the truce wa effected. In a last minute effort this morning tc avoid a disruption in the sport, Michigar Racing Association officials offered t boost their daily distribution of purs monies a flat ,000. This would brinf about a daily outlay of slightly more thai 6,000 while the horsemen stuck t their request for a ,500 boost per diem. Harry W. Lindy, recently-elected vice-president of the local section of the HBPA promptly turned down the tracks offer However, some dissension among the rank; of turfmen was perceived as to whethe: they should have accepted the MRA: latest offer. President E. E. Dale Shaffer, of the MRA vice-president and treasurer George Haggarty, met with the racing organizations board of directors yesterday anc went over the matter of purse distribution The directorate gave Shaffer a vote ol confidence and the head of the Livonfc course made his final move this morning That proposal, as was previously pointec out, failed to meet with the HBPA execu- Continued on Page Forty Another Temporary Truce Reached at Detroit Track Continued from Page One tive boards approval and the strike was definitely on. When it seemed like there would be no more racing here after today, a rumor was circulated that the Hazel Park track would open earlier than scheduled. That story was immediately dispelled when Hazel Park president Richard A. Connell, who arrived in Detroit Monday from Florida, stated that his course would be opened on its scheduled date, August 3, and not before. The Michigan Racing Associations offer yesterday was based on a sliding scale, depending on the mutuel handle for the remainder of the currently-scheduled 56-day season. It was, "commencing June 11, a guaranteed purse increase of ,000 per day. At the conclusion of the meeting, should the daily average mutuel handle for the entire session exceed 85,000, the horsemen, retroactively commencing with the fifteenth day of the meeting, to be paid 6 per cent of the tracks share of the mutuel handle up to the point where it would equal another ,000 a day." The tracks proposal was immediately turned down by vice-president Lindy and the HPBA executive board as Was the ,000 increase in purses made this morning by the Michigan Racing Association. Several well known turfmen put out telephone "feelers" for stalls at other tracks, planning to ship out. The answers were all the same, according to one trainer. "Sorry, we have no stalls available. They are all filled." Carrolls union has a contract with the race track which will be seriously affected if the strike isnt settled. Carroll will attempt to bring the two factions together. A light crowd of approximately 7,500 witnessed the racing at the Livona course today. Partly cloudy weather and a mild threat of rain probably had something to do with the small attendance figures. Favorites won both ends of the Daily Double, Ypsilanti Stables Bumbashoot, handled by Tommy Barrow, beat 11 platers in the six-furlong first race and George Ross Extravagance, ridden by apprentice George Walker, won the second at the same distance, downing 10 ordinary sprinters. Bumbashoot was the 19 to 10 choice in the initial offering while Extravagance returned her backers 12 to 5. Bumbashoot was clocked in 1:12% and Extravagance stepped the three-quarters mile in 1:13%,
