When they are good, the black-tied judges at indoor track meets look very, very good, but when they are badas they were two weeks ago, at the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Gardenthey 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.
Last week, 13 days after the race, the Metropolitan A.A.U. Registration Committee reversed the judges....
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