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Hollywood Stewards Suspend Seven Seized in Drug Round-Up HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 29. — Several exercise riders and a jockey agent, apprehended by police in a roundup of alleged users of marijuana, today stood suspended by the Hollywood Park Board of Stewards. Those effected by the ruling are exercise riders Alvin Buckelew, Robert Michael Byrne, Gary Lee Bailey, William Cum-mings, Donald Leroy Eckert, Melvin Clark Morlan and Robert Patterson, and jockey agent Merival Elmer Tucker. The ruling reads that these persons are suspended for "conduct detrimental to racing" and they are to be denied entry into Hollywood Park. Their cases are being referred to the California Horse Racing Board.
