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Sprinters Hold Spotlight At Detroit Course Today Swivet Likely Favorite Oyer Van Berg Tandem/ Three Others By DON FAIR Staff Correspondent DETROIT RACE COURSE, Livonia, Mich., June 7. — The Glass Dealers Purse, a six furlongs condition race for three-year-olds, and older which lured a field of a half dozen quick entrants, will headline an attractive Wednesday program at this popular Michigan racing grounds. Several excellent supporting events are also scheduled for decision, best of which is the Plymouth Kiwanis Purse, a three-quarters of a mile spin that drew an overnight band of nine useful sprinters. Marion H. VanBerg will saddle Vantage, 115, and First Refusal, 108 pounds, for the Glass Dealers Purse. Others named for the midweek feature are Theodore D. Buhls Second Avenue, 112; Tamarack Stables Bright Shoes, 117; Thomas F. Devereuxs Greatest, 108, and the C. and P. Farms Swivet, pegged at 114 pounds. Jockey Lois Cook, leading rider at the current Detroit meeting, will handle First Refusal in the headliner and the apprentice allowance is claimed for Vantage. No reinsman had been named late today for the latter member of the VanBerg entry. Little Johnny Sellers is engaged for Second Avenue, Mike Basile will be astride Continued on Page Forty-Threa Sprinters Hold Spotlight At Detroit Course Today Swivet Likely Favorite Over VanBerg Tandem/Three Others Continued from Page One Bright Shoes, Manual Gonzalez rides Swivet, and Tommy Barrow is named on Greatest. Early choice for the Wednesday feature is Swivet, a four-year-old Revoked gelding and a good class winner of two engagements in Florida before his shipment here. Swivet bowed to Bright Shoes in his initial start here this season but came back with game performance in the Alger Memorial Handicap, losing a nose decision to the Grissom stables By Far. Swivet appears the one to beat. Vantage, a six-year-old gelded son of Okapi and Gold Crest, made his first start of the year in the Alger and turned, in a fair effort, probably needing that race. The VanBerg star, a. stakes victor in his two preceding campaigns, is the. winner of 09,562 for 1933-1954. First Refusal, Vantages stablemate, also has a touch of class and the six.-year-old Discovery stallion defeated fast company for an "eight-six-five" record through the past two seasons. Second Avenue and Greatestdisappointed in recent races here but the former could prove most troublesome if he runs back to his good race at Churchill Downs oh May 21 while Greatest has worked extremely fast for his midweek engagement. The Dev-ereux homebred five-year-old stallion captured the_ Bull Dog Hi-Weight Handicap here last season and he also won the Hazel Park Mile.
