Word: photofinish
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When they are good, the black-tied judges at indoor track meets look very, very good, but when they are bad-as they were two weeks ago, at the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Garden-they look horrid. At the Wanamaker tape the photofinish crew took a picture that showed several fat official rumps blocking the camera's view of the cat's-whisker finish between Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt. The judges, relying on their own eyes, deadlocked 2 to 2, and Chief Judge Asa Bushnell, voting himself, declared Gehrmann the winner...
...tuxedoed judges spent an embarrassed ten minutes after that-both runners thought they had won, and the officials were divided among themselves. The three judges assigned to pick first and second voted 2 to 1 for Wilt; the third-place judge voted for Gehrmann. The photofinish camera crew had snapped a picture, but that was no help; the judges had gotten in the way. The chief judge stepped in and broke the deadlock. His choice, and the announced winner: Don Gehrmann. Both men were credited with the same time: 4:09.3, fastest competitive mile either of them had ever...
...much of Chicago's population with him and the whole of Chicago's police force against him. He has to steal evidence from the hostile cops, track down a reluctant witness through some wonderfully sinister slums, and finally win his argument in a well-contrived photofinish...
Walt McCurdy regained a flash of his mid-season mastery to help knot Saturday's photofinish tilt, and Bill Prior and John Rockwell looked better than ever. They'll need to be. After tonight it will be all work, all Ivy League. Probably Starting Lineups HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Hauptfuhrer lf Hazon Rockwell rf Burke Prior c Kubachka Brady lg Barker Gannon rg Sullivan
...National League another photofinish was in production. The Chicago Cubs lost five games in a row, three straight to the threatening St. Louis Cardinals. The Cards, who won six in a row, were now on the Cubs' neck and breathing hard...