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► - Nqgler on Racing Arcaro and Woodhouse Offer C7ose-L/ps on Shoes Miscue By BARNEY XAGLER JAMAICA. L. I.. N. Y.. May 6. — Three hours after the Derby, Eddie Arcaro came into the airport at Louisville and, in his haste to board a plane aimed at New York, he brushed by a man he knows real well. Later, talking with Arcaro on the plane, the ftiend said, "Eddie, you rushed by me out there. And I might say its the only thing you rushed by all day." "Did I? Arcaro asked. "Didnt mean to." The little man who had tried unsuccessfully to get more than fourth-place enthusiasm out of Bold Ruler sat back in his seat, a small bundle of enthusiasm in a large setting. Alongside of him sat a friend, a priest who had accompanied Arcaro from New York. One row back was Hedley Woodhouse, who hadnt had any success on Mister Jive. "Terrible thing about Shoemaker.- a man said. "Whats that?" Arcaro asked. "About misjudging the finish. He told the stewards he pulled a real rock." "The stewards, Arcaro said, "what have they got to do with it?" "I guess they wanted to ask a few questions about Shoes boner at the sixteenth pole. Standing up in the irons on Gallant Man when he had Iron Liege dead to the wire. "Hell." said Arcaro. "I was watchine Shoe all the wav and when I saw him eo no I reared up too. Later. I asked him what happened. He said the horse bobbled. | Thats why Im surprised by all this." Woodhouse came forward in his chair. | "You know," he said, "everybodys saying ! Shoe mistook the 16th pole for the finish. I I dont see it like that, Eddie. You look at that track and youll see theres a stick on the rail 70 yards out. Thats the one .Shoe made his mistake on, not at the sixteenth pole. He just misjudged it." "Second time hes done it," somebody said. "Did it on Swaps against Porterhouse in a 00,000 race on the Coast, didnt he?" j Different in Swops Incident "That was different," Arcaro said. "That time Shoe just thought he had it all the way and slowed down his horse, when Porterhouse came by. he tried to get started again, but couldnt." "Well, I guess theyll be putting it down as another Fred Merkle boner?" "Merkle?" Arcaro said quizzically. "Hes a guy pulled a big rock in baseball. An old Giant player." "Heard about that," Arcaro said, "but j they got no right to put Shoe down for! doing anything. Happens to a lot of guys." j "How about the horse, Eddie," a man j said. "I mean Iron Liege." "Not much of a horse," Arcaro said. "My colt gave him weight in the Florida Derby [ and beat him." "Will it be different in the Preakness?" "If Bold Ruler doesnt run out, the way j he did on the turn in the Derby. He just followed that Federal Hill right out. What I mean is that Bold Ruler can win the i Preakness, but he cant do it running out." "He wasnt much horse in the Derby, was he?" "You saw. I had no horse under me coming into the stretch. I knew I had noth-, ing," Arcaro said. "Oh, well," Woodhouse said philosophically, "things like this happen all the time. I mean about Shoe. He strikes out twice and then hits a home run. Thats riding horses for you. Happens all the time." "Tough place to happen though, in the Derby," somebody said. Continued on Page Forty-Fir* I Nagler on Racing Continue from Page Eight II it happened in just an ordinary race." Arcaro said, "nobody pays it much mind. Its the Derby that makes it important." Arcaro sat back in his chair and sought .f sleep. The visitor went back down the : aisle of the plane and came upon Bill Boniface, the racing writer. Seated alongside of Bill was his young son. "His first Derby?" "Yes," said the horse journalist, "his first Derby. Hes a rider though, back in Maryland. Matter of fact, hes more than that." "More than that?" "Well, hes the one in the family should be writing about racing, or picking winners. Theres a little colored fellow working as a stable boy in Iron Lieges barn. My boy knows him from Maryland. He gives my boy Iron Liege as the winner. Says he cant miss. "He didnt, did he?" "Only miss was Shoemakers," Boniface j "I said.
