Monday, Sep. 01, 1941
Who Won
> Warren Wright's three-year-old Whirlaway, with Alfred Robertson up: the $60,000 American Derby; traveling the 1 1/4 miles in 2 min. 4 sec. to equal the record for the 31-year-old classic; before a crowd of 40,000; at Washington Park, near Chicago. Winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Dwyer, Saranac and Travers Stakes, "Whirly" has earned $243,000 this season, upped his lifetime earnings to $320,611--$117,000 under the all-time high earned by Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit.
> Bobby Jones and team: a series of golf matches (for the U.S.O.) against the U.S. Ryder Cup team (selected two years ago but robbed by war of meeting a team of British pros); defeating the Cuppers, 8 1/2 to 6 1/2; at the Detroit Golf Club, Detroit Jones, retired since 1930, helped his sids by winning his singles match, 2 and 1, against razor-sharp Henry Picard, top money-winner among U.S. pros in 1939.
> Jack Kramer & Ted Schroeder, a pair of 20-year-old Californians: the National Doubles tennis championship; for the second year in a row; defeating Gardnar Mulloy & Wayne Sabin in the final, 9-7, 6-4, 6-2; at Brookline, Mass.
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