Monday, Jul. 11, 1932

Who Won

P: Francis Ouimet: his first golf tournament since winning the U. S. Amateur at Chicago last summer; the Massachusetts Open, at Osterville; with 287, one stroke better than a crack field which included Bobby Cruickshank, Wiffy Cox, Johnny Farrell.

P: Walter Hagen: the Western Open golf championship, for the fifth time, at Cleveland. Finishing his last round in a high wind, Hagen was three strokes behind Olin Dutra, who was playing with him, at the 15th hole. He got two birdies for a 70 and the 287 that beat Dutra by one stroke.

P: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old racehorse Equipoise, who was retired early last season with a blind quarter crack: the Delavan Handicap at Arlington Park, defeating Jamestown, who had beaten him twice in 1930, by three lengths. Carrying top-weight of 128 lb., Equipoise covered the mile in 1 :34 2/5, or 3/5 sec. better than the world record for an oval track set by Jack High under 110 lb. at Belmont Park in 1930.

P: Frankie Petrolle, welterweight of Schenectady, N. Y., young brother of famed Billy ("Fargo Express''): a ten-round fight against onetime Featherweight Champion Christopher ("Bat") Battalino, whom Billy Petrolle has thrashed in two bloody fights this year (TIME, April 4; May 30); at Long Island City, N. Y.

P: Johnny Fischer, sophomore at the University of Michigan: the U. S. Intercollegiate Golf Championship; beating by 2 & 1 William Howell of Washington & Lee who was last week named for the U. S. Walker Cup team; at Hot Springs, Va.

P: R. I. Gale's Class-A sloop, Malabar X: the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing Bermuda fisherman Spanish Rose and the ketch Curlew, manned by six Brooklynites.

P: A baseball team of the 4th Regiment of the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Shanghai: the annual July 4 game against the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club: 12 to 4. The Amateur Baseball Club, oldest U. S. organization in Shanghai, started in 1872. Composed originally of derelict sailors and bartenders, it played frequently against the Presbyterian Mission at Sunkiangfu, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tong Shao-yi.

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