Monday, Aug. 28, 1933
Who Won
Apprentice-Jockey Jack Westrope, 16: five races in a single afternoon, for the second time; four races the next afternoon; for a 1933 record of 181 winners out of 691 mounts; on the Hawthorne Track, Chicago.
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings, 1-6, 11-9, 6-1, 6-3.
Joe Kirkwood, oldtime Australian trick shot golfer: the Canadian Open championship with 282 for 72 holes; at Toronto.
Four amateur bullfighters on roller skates: four fights with two-year-old calves wearing rubber shoes to enable them to run on a board skating rink; in the El Toreo Bullring, Mexico City.
The Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race.
Eleven braves of the Nooksack Indian tribe: the Indian war canoe three-mile championship, in 20 min.; at the Coupeville Water Festival near Seattle.
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