Monday, Jul. 31, 1933
Who Won
P: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's five-year-old racehorse Equipoise, carrying 135 lb., at odds of 15 to 20: his fourth race in a row this year, the Arlington Handicap, with Watch Him second and Gallant Sir third; at Chicago.
P: Helen Hicks: the New York State women's golf championship: 7 & 5 in the 36-hole final against Mrs. Leo Federman, after scoring a 71 (men's record for the course) in her morning round; at Plandome, L. I.
P: Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, Theodore A. Lightner, Michael T. Gottlieb: the "international bridge championship" for a trophy put up by Charles M. Schwab; against a British team of four, whose bidding grew timid after they had piled up an early lead, 104,080 points to 93,180 after 300 boards; in London. Wrote Ely Culbertson in his description of the match which was played in two glass-enclosed rooms at Selfridge's Department store, with periscopes outside the walls for spectators: "The hands were tough and the battle was a titanic one but gradually we began to impose our will. . . ."
P: William Kondrat, 18, who hitchhiked from Chatham, N. J. to see Niagara Falls: a fight against the rapids in the lower Niagara River, through which no one else ever swam though several able swimmers have been drowned trying. Carried away by the current as he was foolishly trying to swim across the river to the Canadian shore, he emerged safely after being boiled and tossed the whole length of the rapids and the whirlpool below.
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