Show Horse Race Judges Talk 1 S About Futility of Closing One On Eye in Picking Finish By HENRY McLEMORE I I United Press Sports Snorts Writer r MIAMI Fla na Tan Jan 10 He la-He He actually works little more th than n. n t second a day and d h he has t two men to help him Jj Thousands damn h him Mm m every day and thousands thousands' sing his is praises Each of his hi decisions and arid he mak makes half halt a dozen or more mo 4 a aday day makes tho thousands ri S o of f o d dollars ars for O some o e and tn takes es thousands thousands' r dollars from others He is a horse race Judge When the thoroughbreds pound I over the finish line Une muzzle to mux nUl- zie n neck ck to neck and thousands wonder who won he must know for he puts puls the numbers up iJ aid the they pay ot off on the n numbers W Wo We watched him work vork Thurs l day dRY In hl his little god sort sod sortS of or Cli house e pitched d lintel hard on the line at Tropical Park Rather nather we watched them thein work for call caD a n. n lug Ing the shots shot In a Ii horse race raco l I If s' s 1 task where three set sets sets' of eyes eye ayi araj arif better bette than one 1 The Tropical Park Judges judges Sh OBrien O'Brien and vork work froan what Is really a little front porch on the Judges Judges' house At tho the front tron of ot the porch ar are three small step and when the h horses went vent to the thal post we watched the fourth race the three lined up on the i soldiers sOldiers Galliger on the OBrien O'Brien behind him and Shea on the top step jM In Line Lino Up tip Markers ra Splitting the thel porch vertically and lind lindin in perfect with line the black on the finish sh polo across the track was a steel rod ig Line these markers nark rs u up the up-the the rod and the stripe and and you have ILi lii Imaginary finish line Une We Ve I 8 as M the horses pr pranced nc d at the start atari Ing gate 53 Dont shut one ne eye cautioned Galliger as we sighted as though looking down a a gun un barrel fatal Its It's Its It's two eye job Tf If If try one eye then the the other youl find that you dont don't get the same sam re- re suit sult d 5 We did and he ne was right Thi Thi Th right eye moved the mark on thi lb finish pole a foot to the right of ot the th rod and the left eye moved 1 foot Coot to the left Jj And that difference would be beal a l length In a race Galliger s said ld 1 I I remember the classic example of judge sighting with one eye T judge was Tony Wallace and th the tha therace race the match one at Louisville between between between be be- tween Zev and arid In MemorIam lit was a hell of a finish and Tony Tonyi voted for tor Zev There was vu a a devil of ot a ruckus over over the decision and when they asked Tony about It h said h he couldn't be bOe wrong for tor he hid had drawn a perfect be bead with one ri t iye I remember the writers writers' m rn-de rn de a lot of ot Tonys Tony's remark l and asi d pointed out that as the track wu was paying for tor two eyed judges To Tony y sho should ld get but 1 t half al pay pax l Xo No N 0 Use Henry The field had hit the head of or the tail thi stretch now and the judges forgot us In their work No Broadw Broadway Y columnist ever peeped more Intently Intent Intent- ly through a keyhole than they did across the finish line Fifty yards from home and three horses were running so close together a a topcoat a would have covered them We tried to pick out the flying silks silk the fly T ing numbers numbers anything anything to Identify Identity them But in the second we tried to think they were down smack in front of us crossing the payoff payot line lineVe We Ve still sUII were trying to figure out the winner when and OBrien O'Brien turned a around and com corn paring the three numbers they had had- t scribbled scribble across the top of ot their ther t pr programs grams found round their Jes l t. t the e same j Laughing Sun first Great Grent second and ond Bellum third j t It was wall as n ft no nOlle moe to noso finish but but tho time three wl wise wio men with tit the lime tr cam era eyes eye had caught ht It a arf 85 quickly and amid apparently a R as ca easily lIy a U aJ V though lengths length lu separated para tl 1 thundering thoroughbreds S Galliger greeted our marveling with a a. laugh Huh that was an easy one Stick Stick- l around and well we'll show you some om really close ones |