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TANFORAN MAY HAVE CAMERA Management Considering Installing Small Affair to Photograph Finish of San Mateo Races. SAN BRUNO, Calif., March 31. The Tan-foran management will likely install a camera to photograph the finishes at the fall meeting. Following the lead of Santa Anita, where pictures of close finishes have been the "convincer" for the average patron during the past two seasons. Messrs. March-bank and Marty, head men of Tanforan, i may adopt the camera at the next session. The device to be installed will not be the same as that which is used at Santa Anita. Instead it will be a small affair which will "shoot" pictures from the infield. The "throw" on the Tanforan camera finish will be only about thirty feet, whereas at Santa Anita it is obout 140 feet from the top of the grandstand. Certainly the Tanforan camera will not favor the outside horse, but in this instance the dispute may be that it favors the inside animal. The Tanforan camera will be put ten feet off the grandstand, ten feet back from the track. It will take but one and one-half minutes to take the picture and develop it. The photograph, which is really a series of photographs, on the order of a motion picture, will be re-photographed through a huge magnifying glass to increase its size for display purposes. The new camera is the invention of A. M. Waite, the man who brought out the Waite starting gate. It was explained to Messrs. Marchbank and Marty by Julius Reeder, well known racing official who recently arrived at Tanforan for a visit. Reeder states that the new camera will be introduced in Maryland during the coming year.
