Monday, Jul. 02, 1951
Who Won
P: Henry C. Taylor's yawl Baruna, the 466-mile Newport-to-Annapolis race, over John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, last season's Bermuda race winner, by 14 min. 49 sec. (on corrected time).
P: Harvard's crews (varsity, J.V. and freshman), over Yale's, the eighth Harvard sweep in twelve years under Coach Tom Bolles, who is retiring to become Harvard's athletic director; at New London, Conn.
P: Patty Berg, a playoff for the cross-country Weathervane golf title (TIME, June 11), over Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by one stroke; at Great Neck, N.Y.; and the Western Open, defeating the Babe again in the second round, then Amateur Pat O'Sullivan, 2 up; at Philadelphia.
P: A combination Oxford-Cambridge track & field team, over Harvard-Yale, 9-4, the eighth British victory in 16 meetings (one tie) between the teams; at London,
P: Eric Sturgess of South Africa, (see above), the London grass court championship, over Australia's Frank Sedgman, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; the U.S.'s Shirley Fry, the women's title, over U.S. Indoor Champion Nancy Chaffee, 6-3, 8-6; at London.
P: Gordon Rowse, 12, of Ogden, Utah, the fifth annual national marble tournament, over Henry Patino, 12 (and 1,500,000 other youngsters), 7-3, 0-7, 7-1; at Albuquerque, N.Mex.
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