Show USE MACHINES FOR JUDGING method recently devised would seem to put end to all possible controversy for registering the file results of athletic contests tho the human eye and voice sometime seem painfully gnade diate close contests of this kind are now judged in some parts of the world by judging machines one such device the invention of an austrian is designed to be placed at the finish line in a running race and consists of a i light metal frame pa partitioned r titio ned into two or more divisions each about four feet wide on top of 0 the tiame flame stands a small cabinet containing numbered divisions corre cone spending spond lne to the numbers 0 of f the tracks the instant the first man passes through gli hi alfi division a shutter falls his track number the other numbers are immediately locked except when the machine Is set for final heats in tills this case a small cylinder Is attached to the machine and a hammerhead strikes a mark on the revolving cylinder as the men finish thus the exact positions position s of all competitors can be told to a nicety I 1 the same inventor has originated an automatic judging mach inetor bicycle races it consists of flue light metal strips placed in a small trench about two inches wide which v alch is sunk slink across the track at th the if during the last lap these which are coated i w alth enamel le are placed in position by means ot at a lever and the first wheel to cross re calves five marks in crossing crosing how bowl ever it displaces one of the strips and the next wheel therefore receives only four marks and so on the sunday magazine |