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Modern electronics made an unfortunate debut in the NCAA swimming championships at Yale last weekend. It all started when meet officials announced that a new "electronic machine" would be used to determine the order of finish. The machine had worked well in Big Ten meets, they explained, and should do away with much of the confusion which has plagued recent championships...
...closer inspection, the machine proved to be not much of a machine at all. Place finishes have traditionally been determined by the place judges, who sit at the side of the pool and sight down the finish line to see who touches first. In addition, at least three timers are usually assigned to time the swimmer in each lane...
...main faults with this system are 1) that the place judges are often too far away from the winning swimmer to see exactly when he touches the wall, 2) that they must watch the whole length of the finish line rather than just one lane, and 3) that human errors often result in the same man being picked for both first and second place, or in the winning swimmer being credited with a slower time than the men he has beaten...
With only 45 minutes left, the Ferrari's worn brakes were spitting sparks-but they had lasted long enough. At the final pit stop, Co-Driver Castellotti offered the car to Fangio, but Fangio magnanimously waved him on. "Eugenic, you finish," he said. "You've earned it." Then the world champion lit a cigar, slapped a battered canvas hat on his head, and settled back to watch his Ferrari slide home a winner...
Captain Jim Jorgensen (2:06.9) should improve over his fourth place finish last year in the 220. Only Indiana's Bill Woolsey (2:05.9) has posted a faster time this year. Gerald Tanable, also of Indiana, is on a par with Jorgensen...