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Show WOES OF AVIATION JUDGES Like Umpires at Baseball and Football Foot-ball Matahos, Thar Wave Their Trouble. Judges at aviation nta, tike umpires um-pires at baseball and football matches and others In position of peat ro sponslblllty, havo their own woes. The men who figured in tho recent tourna mont at Belmont park, Now York, certainly cer-tainly had tholr Bhare of trouble. In addition to tho special hurassments connoctod with tho work of supervising supervis-ing tho contests, there wero others This story Is told In connection with tho affair: Their duties, however, would havo been rendered far Icbs arduous ar-duous bad It not been for tho multl !udo of requests that camo to them over tho telenhono. Tho boll in Uieir stand rang almost incessantly and in many cases the Interferers with the workings of tho Judicial mind were women. Ono' morning whllo tho Judges wero considering a stock of protests that filled tho availablo space- in tho tower tho telophono began to JInglo nnd James A. Blair, Jr., dropped a document ho was reading to tho others and sprang to -answer It. "Aro you thoro?" camo over the wiro In a highbred high-bred English accent, "night horo," Mr, Blair answered In offoct. "Is this tho Judges' Btnnd?" "Yes." "Oh, I have-been trying to get you. This Is tho Countess of Blank. Will you order luncheon for six at tho clubhouse at halt past 1? I want," wont on tho tolo-phonlBt, tolo-phonlBt, Without giving Mr. Blair a chanco to recovor from tho first shock to his Judicial dignity, "a hors d'oouvrc,, somo soup, llsh" Bang! went tho rocolvor. What Mr. Blair Bn'd to tho outsldo air may not bo recorded. re-corded. But If tho countess got h-r luncheon that day she must havo sent her order through in another way |