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Gue of the Herald-Tribune dropped into his office 

 and secured the material for the following story 

 which presents the names of four men whose paths 

 of hfe were far apart although all of them were 

 connected with light harness racing. 



"I see the people out at Stanford University have 

 been celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 Governor's pioneer experiments in photographing 

 the horse in motion. I was out there training colts 

 when the campus of the university was the Palo 

 Alto Stock Farm, and the Governor used to sit 

 under a great Hve oak tree up the homestretch of 

 the track to see the horses work. I remember when 

 he was just starting to build the chapel of the 

 universitj^ how the ministers and delegations rep- 

 resenting all the different religious denominations 

 used to come there and pester him on behalf of their 

 particular church. They would often come just when 

 he was timing some of the promising colts whose 

 work he was anxious to follow closely. To prevent 

 them from annoying him at such times I put up 

 a sign at the entrance to the track, 'None but em- 

 ployees allowed on this track.' That pleased him." 



''They are wasting their time in asking me to 

 make this a denominational institution," he said to 

 me. "It's going to be a free-for-all, with no favorites." 



"While the Governor was dodging the ministers," 

 Dwyer continued, "he had time to see a horseman like 

 Charley Cochran. Charley, you know, had rubbed 

 Goldsmith Maid while Budd Doble had her. Well, 

 he turned up at the Palo Alto one day when he was 



