Who Won
> Towering Byron Nelson of Texas: the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament; for the second time; defeating wispy Ben Hogan, another Texan; 69 to 70; in an 18-hole play-off after they had tied for first place with a score of 280 for 72 holes; over Bobby Jones's dream course at Augusta, Ga. Though Hogan has been the biggest money winner among U.S. pros for the past three years, he has never succeeded in winning a major U.S. championship. The Masters, inaugurated eight years ago to commemorate Bobby Jones's unparalleled Grand Slam of 1930 (when he won the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open, British Amateur), is second in importance only to the U.S. Open. The U.S. Open has been canceled for the duration.
> Rutgers' varsity crew: a one-and-three-quarter-mile race, curtain raiser of the intercollegiate rowing season; defeating favored Princeton by a boat length; on Princeton's Carnegie Lake. Rutgers oarsmen, coached by Chuck Logg, a University of Washington alumnus and onetime Princeton coach, made their maiden voyage in bigtime ponds only last year, may be a boatload to be reckoned with in this year's Intercollegiate Regatta.
> Little Louis Pagliaro, Manhattan pool-table mender: the U.S. Table Tennis championship; for the third year in a row; whipping Charles ("Chuck") Burns of Detroit (21-12, 22-20, 21-17) in the final; before 1 ,000 ping-pong fans; in the Grand Ballroom of the General Motors Building; Detroit. In the Women's Singles, 18-year-old Sally Green, Butler University coed, who always keeps her left-hand fingers crossed while playing, breezed through the field for the third successive year. Of some 10,000,000 table tennists in the U.S., 150 considered themselves good enough to compete last week.
> University of Southern California's great track team: a dual meet with the University of California, its arch rival; for the 17th consecutive year; by the comfortable margin of 81 2/3 points to 49 1/3; at Berkeley, Calif.
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