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Hazel Park Officially Allotted Racing Dates Inglis Approves 57-Day Meet on Formal Receipt of Court Decision DETROIT, Mich., May 18. — Racing commissioner James H. Inglis made it official Saturday that the Hazel Park Racing Association will have a 57-day meeting from August 6 to October 10. Although the Michigan Supreme Court ruled against him nearly two weeks ago, the commissioner waited until he was formally noitfied of the decision Friday to sanction the 1953 Hazel Park meeting. The court order forced Inglis to withdraw the conditions he attached to the dates he awarded February 20. At that time the commissioner made Hazel Parks 57 days of racing contingent upon the tracks getting rid of certain "undesirable" stockholders. The Suprme Cout, acting in a mandamus suit filled by the racing association, ruled unanimously against Inglis. It found that he had no authority to ask the track to force stockholders to sell their holdings. Hazel Park has already gone ahead with plans for the summer meeting, although many improvements in the grandstand will have to wait until next season because of the delay caused by the law suit.
