This is a case of where the camera shows that the judge's decision was wrong. There was a thrilling finish to the quarter-mile at the Oxford University sports on March 15, as shown here, and the race was given as a dead heat. But the picture clearly shows that the runner on the left has breasted the tape ahead of the spectacled sprinter on the right.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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66This is a case of where the camera shows that the judge's decision was wrong. There was a thrilling finish to the quarter-mile at the Oxford University sports on March 15, as shown here, and the race was given as a dead heat. But the picture clearly shows that the runner on the left has breasted the tape ahead of the spectacled sprinter on the right. Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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