Netters:
At leats two timing errors at the recent Eastern HS meet at the NY
Armory have already been acknowledge. Strong circumstantial evidence
indicates there were at least two more.
The acknowledged ones were in the girls' DMR where nine seconds were
added to the original times for the race won by Red Bank and in the 200M
girls' trials, which simpoly were scrapped, with the runners returning later
for a four-section final.
The other two, I believe, were in one section each of the girls'
200M and boys; 1600R.
Heat two of the girls 400 produced the 4th, 5th and 7th fastest
times of the event, though the race had been seeded and the best runners
placed in the later sections. The three NJ girls involved had not indicated
in earlier meets that they were capable of the times given them. Not one of
them had even been entered in the Gr. IV 400M run at the NJ state
championships.
Competent (and neutral) hand-timers have reported times for the
third and fastest section of the boys;' 1600R about one second slower than
the "official" results. This one is crucial since the assigned winning time
for Vineland would be a new state record in NJ. Times for the earlier
section, on the other hand, were confirmed by hand-timing.
I would certainly appreciate any evidence to the contrary of these
indications. However, the combination of admitted errors in other events and
the evidence of error in these two is rather overpowering. In the case of
the 400, it is almost beyond belief that the only three girls whose times,
compared to past efforts, raise questions would just happened to be in the
same section of the event.
Ed Grant
