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.aSiBBaawBnranaaalBBaaaaaW aaW|i|PailViiilJI 4fsBSw3Pi" ■■* ■■ -iBBaaaaV ■E v *s? i ; z — * ] AN OFFICIAL WHOSE RULINGS HAVE EARNED FOR HIM THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF THE RACING PUBLIC b jl, aa CHARLES f. PRICE. MANY able men have been a— ocialed With p, racing in the course of the last twenty live u year- la the onerous positions of Judge or slew aid and. as such, have frequently displayed | mental eqaipmeat sutlieient to have won dis-linction in courts of law. Grave guest ions in volving property rights of no moan order now and linn come up for adjudication by these men mil it must be said Ihat as a rule their decisions, based on rules of racing, have been on the lines of common -ease ami equity. If ,, an owner i- ruled off it means the practical h dest ruction of the vahar of his hones and no n jiule or steward i- dliiaosfd to view the neees- ■ siiv for su-h severe action naregretfully. Vet n -uch high-Class oHicials as m. Inis lark. R, . Simnioiis. Clarence McDowell. Joseph A. tl Murphy, tapt. James II. Bees, J. J. Burke. ;1 E. C Hopper and Charles I". Price have been at times called uimiu to solve perplexing ques- a lions in which the enforeeineul of raeiag law h was unperatively demanded at the cost of ban u isiiing well-known men froin the turf and were s found etpial to aapettag the reipiirements af p each case with Vigor, lirinness and oaick solu- i if Lion. 1 Of tin men haag and boaorably cowuected e with the judicial siifv of racing none has won I more favor than Charles I. Price. His grat M eoauectiuu with racing as aa official was at r thnrchill Downs, Louisville, iu isst;. sk his t ■ iulit to the lit e of veteran is not to be ipies- li t toned. Of those who now act as Judges Joseph •I. Burke i- probably the -enior iu length of 1 service with Price second. E. C. Hopper be ciine secretary to the I.alonia Jockey Club in Ii 1KV, and is therefore himself an am-ieul of a a hih degree, bal only became ;i .judge at a t comparatively recent period and as, in that re- 1 speet. is to be classed as 1 youngster. Mr. l Price was bora in ts.i; at Syracuse, N. V.. but meet of his .-ffective years of manhood have t been s| ent iu Kentucky. He is now at that e age where the lessons f ri|M- experience come r I to the aid of natural mental eadownaeut and hist year served with unqualified approval as presiding 1 steward at Juarea and Churehjii Downs ami meshllng judge al Douglas Park. I.aiouia ami Windsor. I serving more days la these important capacities in the course of the year than any other like official I ! iu his .-. ,im 1 1 . 1-or-. nali.. .luilRe Price is mild mannered, aftable ami eourteoe*. lie i- eat one m act avef " hastily and hi- natural kindness i- always a guarantee that due weight will be given all thai can be 1 urged in behalf of offenders a;;.iiii-t turf law. However, the mental trails that lead him lo weigh all points in evidence with equal mid unprejudiced Sttentjoa do cot in the least operate to deter him • from Inflicting due punishment when he decides punishment has hecn earned. In that case he is t rigidity it-elf regardless id" the station of offender* and has no flinched from ruling off men convicted of* Shady practices with whom he Was on terms of real friendship. Of course a man in his position I has other functions that constitute his daily grind of labor, the matters referred lo only nemjaag up C .xeasioiiallx. Ihe dail] work i- in watching the conduct of ihe riders closely and. when a Judge, in placing the horses as thej finish in race-, frequently a delicate affair of noses and eyelashes requiring a quick eve and instant decision. In thi- important function he has no superior. In presenting hi- portrait to readers of Daily Racing Form It is with the conviction that it is t the depicture of a man wno does credit to racing and iu all his acts as an official ever baa it- higher 1 s ami better Interests in view. 1 + + 1 •;
