Monday, Mar. 16, 1931

Who Won

P: The Cambridge University track team: its 63rd annual meet with Oxford, 8 first places to 3. Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile.

P: The Yale swimming team: a meet with Princeton, 48 to 23. Each had won six meets in a row though neither water polo team (see below) had won a game all season. Princeton won the water polo game, 37--30. Yale's swimming team has not lost an intercollegiate meet since 1924.

P: Marcel Guimbretiere and Alfred Latourner: Manhattan's semi-annual six-day bicycle race, tieing in total laps with Linari and Brocardo, but winning by a margin of 334 points scored in sprints.

P: The Pennsylvania track team: the indoor intercollegiates in Manhattan in a meet in which the four quarter-milers of Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Steele, Healey, Carr) did their distance in 3 min., 17 8/10 sec.--another new world's record.

P: Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third.

P: Harry F. Wolf, defending champion, with his famed service working well: the national squash tennis championship in Manhattan, beating Rowland B. Haines in the finals, 6--15, 18--17, 18--17, 15--4.

P: Jay Gould and William C. Wright: the U. S. court tennis doubles championship for the fourth time, in Philadelphia, beating Edward Edwards and John Bell Jr. 6--3, 6--3, 1--6, 4--6, 6--2.

P: Lightning Bolt, dark bay gelding owned by Mrs. John Hay (Mary Elizabeth Altemus) Whitney: with Vice President Curtis watching, the $14,300 Florida derby, climax of the Miami Jockey Club's 45-day meeting at Hialeah Park, Fla.

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