Word: photo-finish
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...much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
Died. Truman Handy Newberry, 80, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, 1918 Senatorial victor over fellow-industrialist Henry Ford; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. Following his photo-finish victory over Democratic Candidate Henry Ford, he was convicted of too-lavish electioneering, then exonerated, by Supreme Court reversal of a lower court decision; ten months after he was finally granted the Senate seat, he resigned it, promptly vanished from public life...
...second feature Lloyd Nolan as Detective Michael Shayne approaches a photo-finish with Lew Ayres in running a once-good idea into the ground. "Sleepers West," which had them snoozing in the other three sectors of the compass as well, will not be missed when replaced by the second Sneak Preview of the year on Tuesday...
During the latter part of the meet, Harvard and Dartmouth fought it out for firsts in the distances, with Bill Ellis leading the field in the 600 yard run, and Bill Palson triling Burnam of Dartmouth to a photo-finish...
...Another photo-finish defeat was a bitter pill for the Varsity basketball team to swallow Saturday night, especially as it was to a Princeton quintet that could have and should have been beaten...