Monday, Mar. 09, 1931
Who Won
P: A Mexican bull: a fight with Sidney Franklin, only U. S. bull-fighter,* goring him so badly in the right leg that he fainted and had to be carried out. Another matador killed the bad bull. Then Franklin came back and killed a bull himself amid wild applause. A few days later, limping, in a cold gale that stirred up dangerous clouds of dust in the ring, he killed two more.
P: Eighteen-year-old Sonja Henie of Oslo, Norway: the world's figure skating championship for women for the fifth year in succession; in Berlin. P: The Yale hockey team, after being held scoreless in the first period and on even terms in the next: the second and deciding game of its series with Princeton, 5 to i, scoring four goals in the last period. P: Martha Parker of Spring Lake, N. J.: the women's South Atlantic championship at Ormond Beach, Fla., beating Kathleen Garnham of England 4 & 3 in the finals. Diana Fishwick, British champion, was put out in the semifinals. P: Stocky, patent-leather-haired Gene Sarazen: the Florida West Coast Open with 278. P: Edward Lee of the New York Athletic Club: the three-cushion championship of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players, in a play-off for a first-place with Alfredo De Oro, Jr., son of the famed Cuban billiard player. Although De Oro kept his rival from scoring for 16 consecutive innings, Lee (who is also a crack long-distance swimmer) held his lead to the end of the 73rd inning to win 50-27.
*From Brooklyn, N. Y., Sportswriter Dan Parker once rhymed in a long ode on Franklin: "I don't come from Madrid," declared bullfighting Sid,
"Though I claim sunny Spain now for my land." --Though it sounds like a riddle, this bullfighting yiddle Was cradled in Brooklyn, Long Gyland.
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