European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday february 2,1990 shoe had own special formula by Bill Christine los Angeles times Arcadia. Calif. As a jockey what made Bill Shoemaker lick he never seemed 19 have the competitive fire of an Eddie Arcaro. A physical contest Between a Laffit pin Cay and Shoemaker would have been a mismatch. Shoemaker did t possess the calculated reckless Ness of an Angel Cordero. Shoemaker could t whip horses like a Ted Atkinson. Shoemaker would t break horses out of the Gale like pal Valc Nucla. Cyl these arc the numbers going into saturday at Santa Anita where Shoemaker will ride for the last Lime in a $100.000. One mile grass race called the leg end s last ride Handicap 8.833 wins. 1.009 wins in stakes races. 257 wins in stakes Worth $100.000 or More. Purses of 123.398.882. Shoemaker was so Good that he was elected into the racing Hall of Fame in 1958, Only nine years after his career started. It was Well before he began piling up wholesale victories in triple Crown races and other Slakes around the country. Nine of Shoemaker s 11 triple Crown victories came after his induction into the Hall of Fame. Shoemaker was so Good that at 54. He won a Ken Tucky Derby with Ferdinand. And having turned 56, he Rode the same Colt to Victor in the $3 million breeders cup classic. Aside from the records and All the winning some thing that pleased me More was thai at 58 i was still Able to ride pretty Good. I could t do it As often but with rest in bal when. I could still do it. I could t ride like i was 25. But i could still ride As Well As a lot of Guys who arc Only 25." Shoemaker said recently. So again the question persists what made shoe maker tick Arcaro. Who held a lot of the records Shoemaker broke seems like a representative former jockey to ask. Shoe had the Fincel hands in the game Arcaro said. And when a Jock has Good hands they can be More of Mcclive than a whip. Shoe s had great rapport with horses. He had great balance. Horses would run for him. And i be always wanted to know Why. I always thought that you had to make horses run. But nol Shoemaker. He got them to run without pushing  Johnny Longden. Who did what Shoemaker would like to do. Going from Riding Kentucky Derby winners to training one. Has a different theory. Bill Shoemaker works Patchy groundhog in preparation for the last race of his career saturday at Santa Anita. I be always admired shoe s attitude Longden said. His Altitude is that whatever happens happens. He would never have done what he s done without that Altitude. When 1 was Riding and things weren t going right i d gel mad Ai myself. You never saw shoe doing that. I could have won a lot More races he won 6,032, a record before Shoemaker broke it if i could have approached the game the Way he  in 1959. Shoemaker left the Winner s Circle at Arlington Park after capturing his 3,500th race walked into the jockeys room and threw his whip Down. I Hope the next 3,500 come As easy he said. Riders around Shoemaker laughed. Not Only did Shoemaker win the next 3,500, he won More than 1,000 races on top of that. Arcaro says that Shoemaker could have won even More. That que Sera Sera that Longden envied might have worked both ways. Shoemaker lost More races than anybody i know just because he refused to Jam some other rider up Arcaro said. That Cost him a lot of wins Early in his career but later on it served him Well when he got older. But he deserves All his Success. He was the fairest rider i Ever  because of the few times he s Ridden this year. Shoe maker s career will have spanned six decades having begun in the last year of the 1940s. Shoemaker stayed Young by growing up Over and Over with a flotilla of new generations. Whether he was beating a longtime Riding crony Don Pierce in a jockeys room Gin game or introducing an apprentice to the nuances of a game called race horse Rummy. Shoe maker was Good for a laugh. Every so often he might sneak into the steam room while other jockeys were trying to reduce with an ice Cream Cone in his hand. Nol being tortured As Taffil Pincay has been through the years by a weight problem was one advantage for Shoemaker. Though he did t possess much raw strength he was a versatile athlete As much at Home on a Golf course or Tennis court As he was on the Back of a 1.200-Pound horse. In 1955, Shoemaker thought swaps would be his first Kentucky Derby Winner. The Coll was to run once in Kentucky before the Derby but in late april. Shoe maker was injured in a spill at Golden Gate Fields in Albany Calif. A horse stumbled leaving the Gate threw Shoemaker Forward and then ran Over him. Kicked in the knee an injury that would bother him repeatedly. Shoemaker stayed overnight in a Bay area Hospital. There was still another week before swaps prep race in Kentucky. A doctor said i Don t think hell be Able to ride for a  late that evening. Shoemaker s agent Harry Silbert. Went Back to the Hospital unannounced and smuggled Shoemaker out the door. They took a plane a 10-hour trip with layovers to Kentucky the next Day. Shoemaker wound up going to a Trainer for the University of Louisville where he met a Young Quarter Back named Johnny Unitas. The swelling went Down Ihnn everything went Well. Swaps won the prep by 8vj lengths. A week later the two also won the Derby. Under Shoemaker. Spectacular bid lost Only one race. He was Good before i Rode him and he got even better Shoemaker said. He was a Champ at iwo and three and then was much better As a 4-Ycar-old. He did things other horses could t do. He ran on All kinds of different tracks under All kinds of conditions and kept  wrong Call but kicks win stands new York a Aba commissioner David j. Stem ruled wednesday thai officials erred by allowing a game winning shot thai gave the new York kicks a ices Ihan last second Victory Over the Chicago bulls. Bul Stem re fused to overturn inc game. He did say. However thai a new directive on last second shots should pre vent a similar situation in the future. We believe we had a meritorious Case and the commissioner did to thus inc Mailer is  said Jerry Krave. Vice president of basketball operations for the bulls. The bulls had contended that officials in the Jan. Is game Between the teams in new York should have disallowed the game winning three Point shot by to Cal Tucker who received an inbound pass by Mark Jackson with one tenth of a second left. The question before me is nol whether Tucker received Jackson s pass and released his shot within one tenth of a second plainly he did not Stern said in a prepared statement re leased from Aba Headquarters. Stem said that the error by the officials was one of judgment nol a misapplication of inc rules and therefore not a sufficient basis for overturning the game. The Aba has consistently denied protests on errors in judgment by the game officials Stern said. Under Aba procedures a protest May be sustained Only in the event of a violation or misapplication of a playing Rule the release said. The unfortunate irony of this Case of course is that the league implemented the tenths of a second clock 10 assist inc referees in officiating exactly the Type of split second end of game sequence which occurred  Stern said. And although the new clocks have otherwise served their intended Pur pose Here because of the error by the officials the clock had the Unin tended effect of highlighting an injustice to Chicago which would have otherwise occurred without notice under the old system that did not measure in increments less than a Sec Ond. Stern said. Stern said to prevent a recurrence of the error the league was issuing guide Jinks to its referees governing the timing of certain and of period situations. Included in the new procedure is a directive that when there is less then three tenths of a second remaining on the clock any shot other than a tip in or an Alley top must be disallowed. Sabres top Nordques by the associated press Buffalo. . Def Ensman Mike Ramsey s shot from the Point dropped into the net off goalie Scott Gordon s Glove at 6 38 of the final period wednesday snapping a 3-3 tic and helping the Buffalo sabres to a 6-3 Victory Over the Quebec Nordques. Gordon got a piece of Ramsey s drive bul the puck popped into the air and fell just below inc crossbar for one of Buffalo s four third period goals. The Victory was the sabres fourth in five games and moved them within one Point of the Adams division Leader Boston. Blues 2, rangers 2 new York Brett Hull scored his nil leading 47th goal and Rookie goalie Curlis Joseph came off the Bench to Stop All 27 shots he faced helping St. Louis overcome an Early 2-0 deficit. Hull the league s hottest scorer with 27 goals in his last 26 games started the blues comeback with a Power play goal late in the first period and Dave Lowry tied it with a second period Short handed goal. Red wings 7, oilers 5 Detroit Steve Yzerman had the first four goal game of his career and Joe Kocur and Bernie pc Durko scored 45 seconds apart Early in the third period As Detroit rallied to beat Edmonton. Edmonton had taken a 4-2 Lead in the second period on goals by Craig Simpson Craig Mactavish and Vladimir Ruzicka. Capitals 4, North stars 3, of Bloomington Minn. John nil Roundup Tucker s rebound goal 35 seconds into overtime gave Washington the win. Dale Hunter s slap shot from Between the circles was stopped by Minnesota goalie Daniel Berthi Auma but the puck dropped to Bis Side. Tucker then swept in and tapped it into the net for his sixth goal of the season. The loss broke a three game Home winning Streak for the North stars who Lead the nil with 19 wins at Home. It also marked Only the second time in 18 tries that the capitals have won when trailing after two periods. Minnesota s Neal Broten scored an unassisted goal with 6 42 left in the third period to lie the game after the capitals had rallied with two goals earlier in inc period for a 3-2 Lead. Maple Leafs 5, jets s Winnipeg Manitoba Toronto twice overcame two goal deficits the last time on goals by Tom Kurvers and Vin cent Damphousse 24 seconds apart mid Way through the third period. Paul Fenton scored twice for Winni Peg he gave the jets a 2-0 Lead in the first period with Brent Ashton Dale a Urchuk and pal a Lynnik gelling the other goals. Tom Fergus Gary Occman and Lou France Schatti were the other Toronto scorers. Toronto among the hottest teams in the nil finished january with a record of 8-2-1 and remained two Points ahead of third place St. Louis in the Norris division. The jets arc three Points ahead of fourth place los Angeles