Monday, Jun. 20, 1938
Who Won
P:Red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif.: the French hard-court tennis championship; in his first attempt; trouncing Czech Roderich Menzel in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; at Auteuil. Champion of the U. S., England, Australia and France, Budge at 23 is the first tennist in history to hold the "Big Four" titles at one time. Australia's Jack Crawford and England's Fred Perry each held three simultaneously, never could capture the fourth.
P:A picked team of U. S. women tennists: the Wightman Cup, for the eighth year in a row; defeating a picked team of Britons, five matches to two; before a crowd of 12,000; at Wimbledon. In the singles, Helen Wills Moody won both her matches, but Alice Marble, U. S. No. 1, lost one match to Britain's No. 4, Kay Stammers.
P:Stolid, stoop-shouldered, 26-year-old Ralph Guldahl: the U. S. Open golf championship; defeating 164 of the country's top-notch amateurs and professionals; for the second year in a row; coming from behind in the last round with an astonishing sub-par 69 while the leaders were cracking all around him; for a total of 284, six strokes better than second-place Dick Metz of Chicago; over the ribbon-fairwayed Cherry Hills course, one mile above sea level; at Denver. Champion Guldahl, who was glad to get an odd job as a carpenter two years ago, broke the all-time U. S. Open record with a score of 281 last year. Now, comfortably employed as pro at New Jersey's Braidburn Country Club, he is the first golfer since Bobby Jones to win the Open twice in succession. Only one golfer before him ever won by a bigger margin (Jim Barnes by nine strokes in 1921).
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