The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-27
DETROIT WANTS GRAND
CIRCUIT OPENING NEXT
YEAR, PROBABLY GETS IT
Increase in Interest in M. & NJ.
and c. of C. Antici-
pated
THIS MEETING IS SUCCESS
Never Before in It's Present Lo-
cation Has Blue Ribbon Had
Such Good Attendance

Detroit wants the opening of the
Grand Circuit meeting next year
The Detroit Driving club will no
doubt secure the dates desired when
the stewards or the Grand Circuit
meet in January. II the club doesn't
secure the opening, there may be a
meeting here the same time that the
big line opens. in competition with it.
The opening OF the big trotting
events of the year here with those
two classics, the c. of c. pacing stake
and the NJ. e. NJ trotting stake, for
the features OF the week would make
the Blue Ribbon meet even greater
than IL is now, though Ii Is at present
recognized as the best of the year.
Starting the season here would
bring about greater interest than
ever in the two big stakes, the pieces
de resistance of the trotting track.
AS II Is now, many years both stakes
are practically decided before Detroit
is reached A pre-opening meeting at
Lansing and the two regular meetings
at Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo give
the experts such a line on the dope
that invariably they have 1t all fig-
ured out before Detroit is reached to
whom first money in the big events Is
going.
This year, for the first time in a
long while, the NJ. e. M. was not de-
cided before this city was entered by
the horsemen. But the reason for
that was that the stake wasn't decid-
ed, either, until five heats had been
run. 1t was most anybody's race, even
after ii had been begun.
But this field was exceptional. Even
with the close competition. there
might have been more II Marie Nc
Kerron, the Detroit horse, hadn't gone
lame, and IL Joe Gahagan's Aller-
worthy hadn't gone bad some time
ago. The Gahagan entrant is all right
now and would have been In good
shape for the race, but 1t was too late
to complete the entry when that was
known.
In the C. of c.. however. Joe Patch
en- H., the Mckenzie horse, had first
honors entirely at his mercy and
everybody knew II The race wasn't
for first place: 1t was for second.
But with the big stakes, known all
over the horse world. being contested
for before definite line had been OBJ
tanned on the years performances OF
the horses, there would be a much
greater interest in the events, 1t Is
thought.
Fred Postal, president OF the Driv.
ing club, In entertaining the newspa-
per men who covered the weeks rae
ing at the Griswold last night, said
that never before since the track had
had its present location was a weeks
Blue Ribbon racing such success
from a boxofiice standpoint.
The crowds have averaged over TO-
coo a day. The betting ring has been
kept buster than ever before and more
races were bet on heavily.
II is notable that fates and the
weather man were kind enough to
permit the meeting to be run of,
with each days entertainment start.
ing on scheduled time and ending
without solitary postponement.
Rain, however, at critical moments
down town has helped keep the
crowds away and made the track
heavy for some days.
The state fair officials are trying
to figure out whether Cadillaqua help
ed or hIndered the attendance. They
have about come the the conclusion
that II did neither. They figure that
their crowds came Independent OF the
carnival.
II was the concensus OF opinion OF
the newspaper men gathered at the
Postal dinner that the Paris mutuel
system of betting with machines must
come to Detroit sooner or later.
Down in Cleveland this week at the
North Randall track, IL Is understood,
tho system will be tried In competi-
tion with the bookmakers, while at
Lexington later in the year II will be
used exclusively.
Yesterdays racing was almost
except for the upsetting
NJ some of the favorites and the 20
minute wait that Molly Darling forced
npon the crowd when she won the
second heat of the 2:O9 pace, prevent
ing Babe from taking II in straight
heats and finishing the weeks sport.
BILLY Burke had things all his own
I'm the main event OF the day. the free
for-all trot.
A-.s,,ncor votaa tho man with the