Monday, Sep. 22, 1952
Who Won
P:The Aga Khan's Tulyar, the 176th running of the St. Leger, second of Great Britain's classic races for three-year-olds; at Doncaster. Winner of the Derby at Epsom Downs, and of all his seven starts this season, the brown colt added $44,577 to his winnings, bringing his total to $214,808.
P: Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira ($480).
P: Frank Stranahan, the Western Amateur golf title, over Harvie Ward (who defeated Stranahan in the finals of the 1952 British Amateur title); 3 and 2; in Chicago.
P: Sam Snead, the $15,000 Eastern Open golf championship, with four sub-par rounds (71, 67, 68 and 69), by two strokes over Runner-Up Ed Oliver; at Baltimore. P: Auto Driver George Hill, the hot rodders' prize of prizes: International Class C speed record of 229.77 m.p.h. (old record: 219.5 m.p.h.); at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. On the outward run over the one-mile course, Hill was clocked at a 235.41 clip. But the abrasive track surface shredded the tires so much that Hill was forced to ease up on the last half-mile of the return trip, timed at 224.44. His super-streamlined car, an Estes Mercury Special, was built by Bob Estes in a California backyard workshop.
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