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Inglis Ponders Decision On MRA Charity Session Recent Legislative Passage and Hazel Park Suit Key to Ruling LANSING, Mich., June 1. — Charity horse racing was prohibited by the state legislature yesterday, but the Detroit Race Courses six-day charity meeting still is on — at least for the present. Racing Commissioner James H. Inglis said today he will not announce any decision on the controversial July 25-30 charity meeting until he has discussed it with the state attorney generals office. In voting, 87-0, for the Morris Bill refusing a racing license to any "organization organized for a charitable purpose," the house specifically exempted this summers meeting by making the law take effect November 10. The bill already had passed in the senate. However, Hazel Park still is fighting for restoration of the three days which Inglis cut from its meeting and added to the Detroit Race Course schedule as charity days. A hearing is scheduled before the state supreme court June 14. "I will not make any decision dn the six charity days until after that suit is settled,"-Inglis said.
