Monday, Jun. 02, 1930
Who Won
P: Charley Smoot, Negro jockey, up on Rooney: the Westbury steeplechase at Belmont Park, L. I., taking the right rein in his teeth when the collarbone he had fractured the day before broke completely as he struggled to right his mount after a hard landing over the water jump in front of the stands.
P: Mrs. Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth Ryan: the women's doubles tennis championship of France at Auteuil.
P: Richard Chapman of Pomfret school: the eastern interscholastic golf championship, with a 20-ft. putt on the last green in the finals, from Tommy Tailer, who goes to Browning, a private school in Manhattan, whose father, the late T. Suffern Tailer, Newport socialite, owned a private championship-calibre nine-hole course on Newport's famed ocean drive. In 1928, Tommy Tailer was beaten 1 up in the Rhode Island junior championship by an Italian caddy, one Joe Pezullo, playing with a set of borrowed clubs.
P: Tycoon, Clifford D. Mallory's 12-metre sailing yacht: a 19-mile race from William Vincent Astor's Iris in the opening regatta of the Long Island Sound championships off Rye, N. Y.
P: University of Michigan's track team: the Western Conference championship meet at Evanston, Ill.,with 51 points. Second: Illinois, 44 1/2 points. Third: Wisconsin, 33.
P: The New York Yankees: a Saturday doubleheader with the Philadelphia Athletics, 10 to 6 and 11 to 1, with Ruth making two home runs, his 13th and 14th this season. Ruth's week included six other homers against the world's champion Philadelphia pitchers--three made in a doubleheader two days earlier, three in a single game played before that. Also last week he homeran against the Boston Red Sox.
P: Lady Astor, using a steel-shafted driver, a brassie, and a wooden putter: a match with Lord Wharncliffe from whom she received eleven strokes handicap, in the Parliamentary golf handicap at Deal, England.
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