Show PHOTOGRAPHS NOT HOT ALWAYS POSITIVE PROOF IN DECIDING CLOSE CONTEST By HENRY L. L FARRELL United Press Sports Editor YORK Dec 6 PIctures G.-PIctures Pictures snapped by photographers at the finish of ot the Zev-In Zev MemorIam race at Louisville recently were brought in the controversy that followed the race It was a very close finish Some thought It was a a. dead heat Others expressed tho the belief that In Memoriam had won The Judges gave it to Zev One set of ot pictures showed In Memoriam winning and another set depicted a dead heat the winner Their positIon position But as was wa's s said id the judges declared Zev tion at the finish line lino was picked because It was the best point from which to get an accurate optical flash of the positions Of or the horses as they nosed across the line Pictures are aro not infallible in registering the actual result of ot fact action They The are not at all accurate and in some cases they are almost opposed to what really happened Still pictures are not accurate and movies are highly erratic Anticipating that some close finishes in the sprint events at the tho Antwerp Olympic games in 1920 might cause some argument the Belgian Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian committee arranged to have the finish of ot the final events snapped by the tile best still and movie cameras that could be obtained in Europe German lenses and cameras at that time were said to be the best avaIlable available available avail avaIl- able and they were used by skilled photographers The results were far from satisfactory There There- was a lengthy controversy controversy controversy con con- about the finish of the meters dash Some thought that Scholz the the American had finished third Edwards the colored English sprinter fourth and Khan AH-Khan the French colonial fifth filth Tho The pictures made it appear that Edwards had finished first Paddock Paddock Paddock Pad Pad- dock second and Kirksey third Paddock to the naked eye was first by a clear margin with Kirksey second Scholz looked like he was third but the judges placed him fifth behind Edwards and All AU The decision was protested and In the final ruling Scholz was placed fourth with Edwards third Checking up other pictures on finishes In which the actual result was not in doubt the pictures were found so Inaccurate that their use was discontinued s |