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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Zumzing Vindicates Vets at Chi Progressive Step in Supervision Two State Posts for H B Swope Strange Case of The Ghos Hoss HossProgram Program Notes Jack Mackenzie is keep ¬ ing his fingers superstitiously crossed Ben Lindheimer is among the many turf ¬ men who are con ¬ vinced Racing needs to develop stewards Charley Bidwill just passed us on Ogden Avenue driving his chauffeur Verily an epitome of the times Last evening we came upon Opera ¬ tive 6 78 gazing wist ¬ fully at a Camel cig aret displayed under glass in a fashionable gift shoppe It is called The Pearl of Seventh Street be ¬ tween Michigan Boulevard and Wabash Avenue and is undoubtedly guarded by electric rays teargas bombs and trap ¬ doors Harriet Sue is rounding to form again and I expect to start her within the next week or so trainer Jack Hanover tells us He then recalled her Louisville form with a slight shudder doubted she fancies more than a mile and a sixteenth but adds I shouldnt be afraid to run her against Durazna when she is good Perusing the ArlingtonWashington book we have the Impression horsemen would experience more luck fishing for trout in a school of muskies than trying to win with bad horses Bloodstock breeders may be interested in Earl Sandes theory that Stagehand is rather more a Fair Play than a Sickle Bounding Home who ambushed the chalk players in the Bel mont is a member of the same family Sweethearts as Case Ace and Knicker ¬ bocker The lastnamed serves at Ray Brysons El Ray Farm in Maryland and his fame might have been more lasting than ephemeral only for the effects of a capsule that crooks contrived to drop in his stall after he captured the Met It is perhaps just as well Zumzing won his Lincoln at Hawthorne engagement Wednesday He was oddson barked a shin on the gate and was permitted to run after the yets examination much to the crowds dismay The vets were vindicated vindicatedProbably Probably all race courses should be equipped with a telephone communi ¬ cation system between the stewards pagoda and each patrol judges stand Such a device was installed several years ago at Washington Park where the stewards double as patrol judges Occasionally the steward at one pole sees what might turn out to be a foul in process of development and calls it to the at ¬ tention of the steward at the next stand which the field passes After the war when technicolor movies of each event may be projected on a screen within five minutes of their running it will be possible to give racegoers a sport that is under the most circumspect supervision imag ¬ inable Meanwhile this phone sys ¬ tem is proving helpful we are told toldGovernor Governor Deweys reappointment of Herbert Bayard Swope to the Long Island State Park Commission for a sixyear term seemingly answers those who have been circulating rumors to the effect that the New York State Racing Commission chairman is in disfavor at Albany Swope has two more years to serve on the turf board incidentally Governor Dewey and his appointees are not always in agree ¬ ment politically but he is not influenced by party considerations in selecting men to fill responsible posts Swope incidentally is the only man in New York holding two State commissions commissionsThe The superb form of Boojiana and BurgelArab has revived interest in their sire Col Sonny Whitneys Boojum whose exceptional speed in ¬ spired Damon Runyon to pen a lyric little gem called The Ghos Hoss Boojum is among the least potent of Kentucky sires But he recompenses by getting perhaps the highest per ¬ centage of stakes winners In exhib ¬ iting him recently Ivor Balding said I suppose we waste a lot of mares on him But the results when there are any make it seem worthwhileMrs worthwhile Mrs H C Phipps lightfooted Snark a Suburban winner and the sire of Slidd Rule is the most accomplished of Boojum3 Boojum3fcir fcir cnn i finnrtr is Rflirt tn ht snmAwhftTt more potent Because they collaborated sol successfully racing as an entry for the latft from Whichone in racegoers memories Some optimistically regarded WhichonettS the better prospective sire but he raflie anticlimaxed his racing career at Studi Among the senior Rowes last words W Young Jimmy were Take good care 05 Booje Our understanding is Boojums current crop of twoyearolds number three two of them winners Among tits choicest of Colonel Whitneys yearlings i3 a sister to Boojiana
