Case Book bailed you out

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Originally Posted by grunewar

I was taught NEVER to have your whistle in your mouth during a jump ball at the risk of breaking your teeth or having your whistle rammed down your throat.

If you didn't have it in your mouth, I can't see how you accomplished this....

I didn't take the time to give all the details in the OP. Actually had U2 blow it dead. Told him "as soon as it leaves my hand, blow your whistle." I did not know what was going on at the table, but I knew that the right thing to do was to play the extra period, and the only way to guarantee that was to make the ball alive. There had been enough fuzzy things happening at the table between scorer A and B during the course of the game that I wasn't excited about having to declare a winner in a daggone good ballgame due to a table "error" when the score had been verified 6 or so times throughout the game.