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SPORT SECTION THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SUNDAY. JULY 27, 1941 Irish Luck Was Keynote in Gehringer's The Finish Camera Doesn't Lie Jimmy Loffus 9r Congratulations for the New City Singles Champion (bailee Beats MMmnwgR I Tl OW DO you see the finish of a horse race? Persons standing -l-l in different positions from the finish line see it differently. Persons standing in the same angle sometimes see it differently. Those standing exactly in the finish line may see it differently. That's why the finish-camera is used on all race tracks.

Persons also react differently from what they think they see, or from what they want to see. Principally the reactioti comes from what they want to see, thinks John A. Stone, inventor of the Dual-Photo Finish Camera used at the State Fair Grounds, Thistledown in Cleveland and River Downs in Cincinnati. Here are examples of reactions of two men who bet on horses shown by the publicly displayed finish picture at the Fair Grounds recently: A huge fellow in shirt sleeves stood before the screen under horse of the tournament, gaining the finals from an unseeded place. Russell, captain-elect of the Western Michigan College team and Michigan Open champion, was seeded No.

2. He plans to enter the Michigan Closed tournament at Flint next month. Jim Tobin and Dick Prakken won the men's doubles title by beating George and John Rcindel, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Kimbark Peterson, right, congratulates Gene Russell after the latter's 5-7, 6-2, 6-0, 6-0 victory Saturday afternoon for the City singles tennis championship at Detroit Tennis Club. Russell's brilliant plays when the pressure was on, together with the high temperatures, are the answer to why the 36-year-old Peterson finished as runner-up, but at least he proved the dark FROM THIS ANGLE HORSE ON RAIL APPEARS AHEAD the main grandstand which showed a horse beating his horse by a nose.

"That's a fake. I KNOW my horse won. I seen it with my own roared the big fellow. Stoney, as the forty-one- ear-old camera inventor shBlI hereafter be called, was standing close by, listening to audience reaction to his brainchild. "Don't you believe the picture?" Stoney asked mildly.

"No," roared the big fellow. "Who are you?" "It's my camera," said Stoney modestly. The big fellow swung. lie landed right on the point of Stoney's chin and Stoney went down. And then there was the bespectacled little man who went to Stoney's office the other day and registered a complaint.

"Mr. Stone," he said earnestly. "I have good eyes. I was watching that last race very closely and I am sure that my horse got up. Your picture showed that he was beaten by inches.

Could it be possible that there was some error in your camera operation? Could the white finish wire be adjusted on the negative before the print was made? Or could a longer nose be painted on the horse shown by the picture to be the winner? I've heard talk about these things being done. By double exposure, for example." These are only a few of the beefs that Stoney and all finish-camera men get. In the heat of losing a bet, I've beefed at the camera hotly myself. It seemed the thing to do at the time. Afterward, I've been more than a little ashamed of myself for I've been in close working contact with finish-camera operation since it was first brought to racing in 1932.

Invites Him to Camera Booth TO GET back to Stoney and his finish camera. He asked the bespectacled, little man with the technical suspicions to come up to the camera booth atop the main stand at the finish line. The man saw there three movie rameras set one over the other and braced by steel beams and bars against deviation or vibration. These were special cameras of latest design. Each takes 120 picture a second, fast enough to stop any horse running.

Only two cameras are normally used. The other is held for -SMOOTH SAILING The InterlakeSeriousness, Gayety Career Sport Shots BY JOHN N. SABO 'THE INSIDE: Don't be surprised if the New York Yankees try to swing a deal with the Senators next winter whereby Jimmy Vernon will become a member of tho Bronx Bombers. Vernon is the big fellow who gives promise of becoming a high-class first sackcr and the Yanks may be willing td, part with some players to get hint, George Selkirk, the veteran outfielder, may be one of the players the Yanks will dangle In front Clark Griffith since the Senators are short: outfielders and the Yanks are well supplied in that department. i Hughey, owner of ths World Championship Detroit Eagles, is willing to sell his pro cagers but he hasn't hearrl of any offers which interest; him as vet.

Vernon Ralph Fritz, ace U. of M. football guard last fall, would be interest i in any good pro offers Joe Di Maggio has no particular liking for Brigga Stadium. In seven games here this season, not count -ing the All-Star game, Joe has hit only .270 in the Tiger bailiwick. He, has 10 hits in 37 times at bat.

pOLFING CATCHERS: Birdlfl Tabbetta and Billy Sullivan, the Tiger receivers, play golf consistently in the 80s. And Coach Merv Shea, who won the Baseball Players golf title in Florida last spring, is an ex-catcher. Franklc Croucher was happy td inform his Tiger bosses that ho has been placed in 3-A by his draft board in Houston, Tex. Frankle is a bachelor but is the sole support of a widowed mother. Charley Sheppard, veteran pro at tho Omaha (Nebr.) Country Club, recently scored his ninth hole-in-ona but tie still contends that scoring aces is 99 per cent luck and 1 per cent skill.

'TORPEDOED: Capt. F. B. Pol lard, considered the best golfer among iavy men, was given a real golf education the other day at the Marine Course at Quantico, Va. The captain shot a 36 on thl nine-hole course but he finished six down because Danny Burton, the club pro, was playing against him and shot a cool 30.

Sam Lo Prestl, goalie of the Chicago Blackhawks, has a brother Tommy, who is a golf pro In on Talk about speed. I The Kansas PGA lined up a special team of golf s-sionals, placed them at various spots of the Old Mission Golf Club, Kansas City, and they shot a golf bail around 18 holes in 22 minutes, '9'i minutes for the first nine and 12' i minutes for the sec- Stuhldreher ond. Nine pros formed this specfl team and they had an auto to help them on some holes. Coach Harry Stuhldreher, of Wisconsin, shouldn't have to worry about the, center position on his 1941 team. He has three veteran pivot men.

Bob Henry, Dick Thornally and Bob McKay, back from last year. Henry is a six-foot-three-inch, 205 pound husky from Escanaba, Mich. National Leaguers do a lot of yelling at Manager Lem Durocher, of the Dodgers, but they don't belittle him for his pinch hitting. Durocher has a pinch hitting average of .385 this year with 5 hits in 13 times at bat. A RMY JOBS: Eddie Kozole, for-mer Free Press Golden Glove boxing champion, is boxing coarhj of the 95th Regiment stationed nt Camp Davis, N.

C. Another former Detroit amateur boxer, Archie Gutz, is helping Eddie. And a couple of Detroit amateur basketball players, Bill Kucyk anr Hank Potak. also are at Camp Davis. Kucyk is in the 94th Coast Artillery and Potak is toiling for the camp Fire Department.

Women Head Monday Mat Lard at Arena For the fourth time this season women wrestlers will be seen hi action Monday night at the Arena Cardcns Bowl, 5795 Woodward. This time a new pair of fair grap-plers will entertain the fans, sn Indian girl and a hill billy from the South. They are Cecelia Blevins, Cherokee Indian, and Elmira Snod- Cres.S. from the hillq nf Tennessee. Both have the same idea in mind a match with Champion Buska, who recently won the belt here.

In the other half of the doubio windup, five bad boys will scramble in a battle royal. The partici pants are Nango Singh. Reb Russell, Fredcrich von Schacht, thsi heavyweight bad man; Buresh and Charles (Gorilla)! Grubmler. Bert Rubi and Joe Melich, a new boy from St. Louis who showed a lot of stuff in his first match here, will tangle in a one-fall one-hour match and there will be a short preliminary beginning at 8:30 IN-AND-OUT LEADER Odd unmbers are Harry Heil-mann's favcites.

The former Detroit outfielder won four American league batting championships, all In odd years. He won in 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927, Not only will he be notable for his youth, but what is more noteworthy, he will break a standing rule of the last 10 years, i. that the ILYA shall be headed by powerboat men. He has been sailing since he was 19, on every kind of a sail- COMMODORE HOWARD FINCH A Big Job Ahead Misfortune of O'Rourke Started It Frank Came Down with Measles; Then McManus Was Hurt and Charley Was In BY CHARLES P. WARD Now that he has time to look back, Charley Gehringer can see that his sixteen-year career as the Tigers' regular second baseman was built upon the luck of the Irish.

Two Irishmen got their life skeins entangled with Gehringer's in Charleys early years, and strange to relate, their luck was bad. Their names were Frank O'Rourke and Martin Joseph McManus. and their misfortunes consisted of 1 a case of measles and (2) a spike wound. Riding to glory on a case of measles and a spike wound is like getting through the Pearly Gates on a Phillies rain check. But that is just what Charley did.

O'Rourke was the first Irishman to enter Gehringer's life. So far as this report is concerned, he entered it in 1926 and left it about the same year. Ty Sees His Ability When Charley went South with the Tigers that spring, he was something of a favorite with Ty Cobb, then the Tiger manager. Ty had seen the youngster the year before both in the spring training camp and in workouts at Navin Field. He was impressed with his possibilities and took him under his care, teaching him much about batting among other things.

But a coolness later developed between Ty and Charley. Perhaps it was around that time that Cobb told Gehringer that he should have more pepper. He said Charley should chatter like the rest of the infleld, and when Charley replied that there were enough people talking and saying nothing, Ty became peeved. So Charley was a bench rider and O'Rourke the sec ond baseman when the Tigers came North that year. But O'Rourke was smitten with measles and left the line-up in May and Gehringer was put in at second base.

He played 123 games at the position that year. Manus Moves In Gehringer did not remain the second baseman, however. At the end of the 1926 season Cobb resigned as manager and George Moriarty was given his job. Mori-arty made a deal with the Browns for McManus. Marty was put on second and Charley shifted to third to understudy Jackie Warner.

Gehringer moved North with the Tigers in 1927 In the role of bench jockey. But McManus was spiked and Charley went back to second base to stay. Bad luck struck Gehringer in 1931 in the form of a sore throwing arm. Early that year Charley caught a cold which settled in his back. He thought it would pass and played despite the Inconvenience.

One day he attempted a snap throw to first and something seemed to give in his arm. He played in 101 games that year, but appeared in a good many of them only as a pinch-hitter. The outlook for Charley was dark when the season ended. But then came a lucky break. Denny Carroll, who had been a famed trainer for Coast League clubs for many years, had had a disagreement with the San Francisco management.

Knowing that Carroll was reputed to be a wizard with sore arms, Navin signed him. He was to report at the Tiger camp at Richardson Springs, in 1932 and see that Gehringer was ready for duty on opening day. "He'll be ready," Carroll promised Bucky Harris, who was then the manager, after he had looked at Gehringer. Gradually the arm trouble disappeared, Gehringer was playing regularly in the exhl bitlon games until the team reached Kansas City on the way East. Then the old trouble returned and again the camp was plunged into gloom.

But Gehringer was ready for the opener and during the season he played in 152 games. Begins at Fowlervllle It was at Fowlerville that Charley's baseball career started. He gained his first recognition while playing on the sandlots of that village and at the Fair Grounds there. He was discovered there by a former Tiger outfielder, Bobby Veach, by accident. Veach was in the habit of going to Fowlervllle to hunt.

He had a friend there named Floyd Smith who was a baseball fan and an admirer of Gehringer's. Smith told Veach about Gehringer but Veach figured he was just another plow country phenom and forgot about him. Smith was not to be put off so easily, however, and Bobby finally decided to take a look. What he saw caused him to tell Navin to sign Charley before somebody else did. When Gehringer appeared for the signing, Navin gave him his most persuasive sales talk.

Ha made strong appeals to his ambition and to his desire to acquire money and the things it would buy for his widowed mother. But after Navin had given his best, even to the last punch line, which usually was followed by a request for the pen, Gehringer said nothing. Navin Starts All Over Again Navin launched into an eloquent sales talk. Again he got down to the finish and waited for some reaction from Gehringer. Charley just sat.

"Oh. yen want to waste your life with gome other club?" Navin demanded, half in apprehension and half in anger. "No," said Gehringer, with a wry smile, "I've been waiting an hour for you to produce that contract that you have been talking I about." Form to Win Whips Purse Runs Fastest 6 Furlongs of Detroit Meeting to Lead Boy Angler In BY JIMMY LOFTC8 drawn in blood-red on a pure white silk jacket the racing colors of Kentucky's C. A. Valentinestood for victory Saturday as Gallee took the J4.000 Whip and Spurs Handicap before 10,553 at State Fair Grounds.

The three-year-old son of Hada-gal streaked the fastest six furlongs of the Detroit season in 1:11 to score his upset triumph over the best sprinters on the grounds. He was an outsider in the betting, paying $22.60 to win. Max Wexler's Boy Angler, the favorite, finished second, Darby Dienst third and Dr. Whinny fourth with noses splitting out the trio for the minor awards. Little Man Wins Charley Hanauer, smallest jockey in the Detroit colony, rode a giant's race to pilot T.

D. Buhl's Aaron Burr to a thrilling neck score over Red Dock In the mile and 70 yards Mackinac Purse. Under pressure all the way, the sixty-five-pound Hanauer was so exhausted that he fell off his horse right after the finish. He staggered to his feet, clambered back in the saddle and came back to the judges' looking as though he had jumped off and carried Aaron Burr for the final eighth. The Buhl three-year-old was overlooked in the betting and paid $33 straight Hanauer completed a winning double when Majorette won the gruelling mile and three-quarter eighth race.

Big Bubble Takes First Big Bubble, racing for Beezley and Cohn and ridden by Euclid LeBlanc, made every pole a winning one over the mile and a sixteenth of the first race. Daggers Drawn, flying the famous Canadian silks of the Seagram family, drove to a neck victory over Punta Final in the six-furlong second race, rounding out a dally double paying $23.40. Bright Willie blazed over five and a half furlongs in 1:0515, just one-fifth of a second off the track record, to win the supporting Sweep All Purse, a test for two-year-olds. George Wallace settled Bright Willie in his stride in the run through the back stretch while Tetradan was setting a killing early pace. At the head of the front stretch the Mcllvain colt took full command.

Patriot saved the secondary spoils and Tetradan finished third. Unknown Steals Shmv at St. Paul By the Aneiated Trr ST. PAUL. July 26 A guy named Joe was the story of the St.

Paul Open golf second round today. He was Joe Coria, twenty-six-ycar-old professional at St. Paul's Municipal Phalcn Park course and his second round 69, three under par, gave him a 36-hole total of 136 strokes which enabled him to snatch the day's honors from some of the greatest stars in the game'3 big-time show. Working on an opening round 67, he went out in 34, two under par. Two shots back as the field headed Into tomorrow's 36-hole final test was big Johnny Bulla, of Chicago, who had a 138 aggregate At 139 came Ralph Guldahl, twice former National Open champion, who has been showing signs of checking his slump.

In the 140 bracket and in position to put on one of the blazing stretch finishes which has put him in the money through 51 straight tournaments was little Ben Hogan, of Hershey, Pa. Hogan had a 33 out today but slipped a stroke over par for a 37 coming in to duplicate his opening round 70. Harry Cooper, of Chicago, three times winner of this event, and Jimmy Thomson, long hitter from Chicopee, were also in the 110 class. George Dawson, of Chicago, clung to low amateur honors with 141 aggregate, a total also held by Dick Metz, of Oak Park, 111., and Ky Laffoon, of Miami, Okla. The day's single hole scoring feature was contributed by Ray Mangrum, of Oakmont, Pa.

He banged In a hole-in-one on the 145 yard 13th. It helped Mangrum to a 70 and a 145 total. Sports Calendar SUNDAY. JULY 27 BASEBALL Amalenr Day. Brltt Stadium, tame.

1 u. m. tint DOC. SHOW Detroit Fot Terrier t'luh nunn mateh J. 1'harlen Button KenneU.

(jratlot, north of Ten Mile. 2 l. m. POLO Oroftue Pointe vf. tiatm Mill, firniae Pointe Open Hunt t'luh.

Cook Koad. near Seren Mile. .1:30 n. m. TENNIS Final matrh, rite women' Houhten tour nament.

Detroit Tennla Chip, Bruth and ho in. p. m. Sandlot Schedule i.rrnER an league Mt. Zlon v.

Ml. (alvarr nt Chandler: St. Matthew' v. Coneordla at Clark -Our Savior v. Trlnlli al Belle Mr- SI.

Thoma v. Salem at Louse. All tame at 3:30 n. m.l INTKn-COt'NTV I.EAdl QfrOall City at Melvlndale: Dearhnrn Merrhnnli at nkter l.lodenuait; rhniouili at Amain: lnkter Merrhnnli, at UtMunori-Mar at Ann Arbor: Dearhnrn Wolverine, at Belleville: Olymiih al Komulu: Walti nt Saline: Bic Five at Bedford. (All tame al 3 ii m.l Dearborn Merehaot at Wett wood at I'tilO n.

m. HBOB I.F.XGCK t'PW ti. Potal Clerks: F.leelrlral 5S r. Temler; Letter Carrier t. Kleetrlral 17.

'All nmri at Narthnetlern Held at 10 a. in. i boat made. Currently he is as-sistaht skipper aboard Tom Fisher's Apache and a member of the Crescent Sail Yacht Club and Bay-view Yacht Club. For Its July meeting Monday, the Grosse Pointe Power Squadron had arranged a cruise from the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club to the Old Club on Harsen's Island at the mouth of South Channel in Lake St.

Clair. The Squadron fleet will leave promptly at 5:30 p. m. Chuck Thompson, Frank Sheehy, Roy Grenier and Don Ziezler are leading the competition for State outboard titles. Commodore Andy Rogerson, of the Detroit Outboard Association, announced Saturday.

CLASS A HVDROl'LAMS Chnrk Thompunn. Detrnlt Chuck White, Leo t'otley. Midland Walter Hunt, Detroit 813 CLASS II HVDROPLANF.S Frank Sheehy. Detrnlt I.fi.10 Merle Vial. Detroit I.

SIM Don Harnrr, Tciledn Earle, Detroit 1,011 i LASS I IIVDRO Roy flrenler, Detroit Lew Cooper. Pontine 1,000 Wnlt Norland. Detroit 1,46 Bud Zrder. Point 1.19S Tommy (lore, Miami 900 CLASS nm.mii Rt'N VnOt'T Don Zleiler, Detroit I.3rtfl 1. R.

Nunn, Jaehioa I Jaek Frot. Detroit 1.100 Ned Srhrimer. Detroit 1.010 STAFFORD FROM THIS ANGLE HORSE emergencies. They are trained down on an angle of about 45 degrees. It is about 150 feet in a straight line through the quarter-inch taut wire cable stretched across the finish line.

This wire and the black finish line on the white backboard on the inner rail are set by a surveyor's transit. "On all finish pictures that white wire must show true through the black lino on the finish hoard," said Stoney. "Any engineer or camera expert will tell you after inspection that a faulty setting of the cameras to make one horse win or lose is mathematically impossible if these lines are true." The bespectacled little man was told that the scientifically To Whom It May Concern BY DALE TF KAYO MORGAN, the picketing prize fighter, wants to box at the Windsor Arena Aug. 6, all he needs to do is visit Promoter A. W.

Hutchinson and sign a contract Hutchinson has obtained Jackie Taylor, Columbus fighter who lost to Morgan recently, as a possible BY KENNETH A. THOMPSON There's nothing sn the whole field of sports like the Interlake, the grand jamboree of the Great Lakes. Competitors gather In groups two days before. From all directions they race under official auspices to the meeting place. They bring their sleeping quarters and their food with them clerks and millionaires alike.

With good fellowship and cheer, 400 of them settle down to four days of hotly contested, good-natured racing. Days are serious, but nights are gay. Then winners and losers troop home, happy and tired and most of them with trophies and flags. This is the Interlake. It is the Interlake Yachting Association's yearly bust.

The meeting place is Put-In-Bay in Lake Erie and the 400 contestants converge from 40 boat clubs scattered from Mackinac Island to Erie, Pa. Since 1885, this has been the picture. This year, from Aug. 9 to 14, will be like the rest and maybe better. Almost simultaneously from Toledo, Cleveland and Detroit, fleets will head for Put-in-Bay on Aug.

9 and 10 in deep-water races. Detroit's boats will be split in two races. Big boats will compete In the 70-mlle ILYA Race over the sportiest course on the lakes. They will leave Detroit Light at the mouth of the river at 6 p. in.

Aug. 9, point for Pelee Passage Light, weave around the South-cast Shoals, Kelly Island and Ballast Island and then head for the Bay. On the following morning, rac ing boats from Detroit will head straight for Put-in-Bay in the Detroit River Yachting Association Race. Once at the meeting place, the boats from all over will go into their three days of battling. A radical change of program will split contestants into two divisions.

Small boat classic will race over a four and quarter-mile course in the afternoons and the larger boats over a nine mile course in the mornings. The or big-boat division, will include everything down to catboats, and the Division dinghys, seagulls, snipes, nippers and such. Over the deep-water-races will preside a young Detroiter who has ahead of him one of the most important sailing jobs in the nation-command of the Interlake Yachting Association. He's Commodore Howard Finch, thirty-two-year-old vice commodore of the ILYA, veteran of nine Mackinac Races, nine Mills Trophy races and four Florida ocean races. Younger than any of his predecessors by at least 10 years, Finch will automatically move into the commodorship next November.

Orion Regatta Draws Racers The attention of outboard racing fans will be focused on Chuck Thompson, recent winner of the Marysville-Detroit Marathon, when he competes Sunday in the Lake Orion Water Carnival and Regatta. The boat events will be directed by the Detroit Outboard Association and will start at 1 p. m. Thompson, in five races that have counted in State standings, has compiled 3.000 points, well ahead of the 1916 points gathered by his nearest rival In the A hydroplane class, Chuck White, of Jackson. Twenty-five entries have been received for Sunday's races.

The Orion Rotary Club will sponsor the regatta. exact setting of the cameras and the taking of the pictures was only the half of it. The real problem of operation came with the developing of the negatives and the printing of the pictures for the judges, the public display screen and the press. Suddenly the six-furlong race was off. Lights snapped out in the camera room, leaving the two-man crew, Stoney and the visiting doubter, in darkness.

In a minute and 13 seconds the horses hit the finish line. The visitor could only hear the shuffle of the operators' feet and the swishing of chemicals in the big developing tank. Then, in 27 seconds the lights went up and he was handed a negative of the finish. In 90 seconds of high-speed, perfectly drilled teamwork the visitor was handed the picture, asked to place it in the bucket and shoot it down a wire to the judges. "Could any trick known to science alter the finish negative or picture in that time?" Stoney asked the visitor.

But the doubter was convinced. Four minutes later the pictures were being shown to the public on enlarged screens in the grandstand and clubhouse. The man who took a punch at the camera inventor? Well, a more understanding man than Stoney once said: "None so blind as he who will not see." The big fellow in shirtsleeves wanted his horse to win. The horse filled his eye3. Perhaps he was standing off the finish line to right or left, AT RIGHT APPEARS AHEAD MIDDLE HORSE IS AHEAD to come down opponent for Kayo.

Taylor has agreed to turn his purse over to a Canadian war charity, so anxious Is he to get Morgan in the ring again. Roller skating will become a major sports promotion at Olympia during the fall and winter. Contrary to published reports Bob Calihan, Detroit Eagle basketball star and a former University of Detroit captain, is not in the Army. He's working as an electrician on a Detroit defense project. If "Harmon of Michigan" scores with the movie fans, Columbia Pictures will probably exercise an option on Tom Harmon's services for a second film at $17,000.

He's getting $13,000 for his first effort Manager Bill Terry, of the New York Giants, emphatically denies that he ever picked the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. If his Giants don't win, he likes the Cards. Mrs. Joe DiMaggio handles her husband's heavy mail. Joe has picture postcards that go to fans who request an autographed photo.

Mrs. DiMaggio addresses the cards and Joe signs the photo on the other side. Pat Comiskey, the New Jersey sock artist, has lost but three out of 44 professional fights. Bill Irvine, now located at the Fair Grounds, once was chief trainer of the late Willis Sharpe Kilmer's horses. At one time Sun Beau, the former world money earning champion, was under Irvine's handling.

Blenheim II, sire of Whirlaway, cost $250,000 and is the most famous of Warren Wright's stallions. However, as early as last spring the men about Wright's Calumet Farm predicted that Sun Teddy, a native American horse, would become a better producer than Blenheim II. Sun Again, a member of Sun Teddy's first crop, helped prove this prophecy by winning the rich Arlington Futurity. Quick golf lesson via Samuel Jackson Snead: "Balance is the very beginning of any golf shot. Stand with your weight evenly divided and your legs not too far apart.

Turn the toes of both feet outward because this helps you retain good balance throughout the swing. Have your arms hanging freely so the movement of your body doesn't interfere with your arms. The ball and hands are practically In the same vertical plane. I drive with a slightly open stance, with the left foot a bit farther away than the right one from the intended line of flight." Ten Years Ago Today The Detroit Tigers dropped to last place in the American League standings by losing an eleven-Inning game to FINISH CAMERA SHOWS which is explained by the accompanying pictures taken by a news photographer with standing ponies. Thoroughbreds are too nervous to be used for this illustration.

The big man was standing right on a line with a finish line? I'll never forget what the scientific Harry Day once demonstrated to me. The human eye does not travel or flow with a moving object. It takes a series of pictures like a movie camera, refocusing rapidly. Watching a fast-finishing field of horses, Day demonstrated that there was a blind spot covering 16 inches of action between the changes of focus in the eye. Now will you bet your pal that you are right on a nose finish, or will you wait for the picture he 10-7 New York victory..