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...Gehrmann and Fred Wilt raced into the final lap of the Bankers' Mile in Chicago Stadium one night last week, a double team of judges including the great Jesse Owens carefully watched the finish tape. There was to be no repetition or the row over the famed Wanamaker Mile in Manhattan seven weeks ago, when the judges disagreed over the winner and blocked the view of the photo-finish camera that might have settled the matter.*But as it turned out, any extra precautions were unnecessary...
...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...
...days after the race, the Metropolitan A.A.U. Registration Committee reversed the judges. As the committee read the rule book, neither Chief Judge Bushnell nor a third-place judge who voted for Gehrmann had had the technical right to vote at all. That gave the Wanamaker Mile to Fred Wilt...
...decision suited Wilt. Said he: "I know I hit the tape first." Don Gehrmann, who had taken the $500 silver cup back home to Wisconsin, felt he couldn't disagree more: "I still maintain I hit the tape first and it wrapped around my neck." Since there were at least two higher A.A.U. echelons that could be appealed to, there was a good chance that the Wanamaker Mile might be running all winter...
...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...