Monday, Mar. 31, 1930
Who Won
P:William ("Wild Bill") Mehlhorn, muscular golfer who walks like a sailor and sometimes plays like one: first prize of $5.000 on the windy, many-bunkered, palm-plumed La Gorce course at Miami Beach, beating Horton Smith, who got $2.500, by one stroke. P: Slim Maribel Vinson, 17, sophomore at Radcliffe College, in an orange satin suit trimmed with black fur: the national amateur figure skating championship, at Providence, R. I.
P: Mann, 8-metre boat from Port Washington, L. I., sailed by Frederick Hoyt in a spanking breeze: a $5,000 replica of the galleon Santa Maria, called the King of
Spain Trophy, beating the California Yacht Club syndicate's Angelita off Point Fermin, Calif.
P: Joseph Hall of San Francisco, 44-year-old cue-wielder: the national amateur three cushion billiard championship, beating one Frank Fleming 50 to 37 in 78 innings in a dull, cautious game in French Lick, Ind. P: The Argentine polo team--Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington--handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. P: Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs.
P: Gus Sonnenberg, wrestler whose favorite "hold" is a football tackle, billed as champion of the world in some states: a bout with Henri De Glane, French heavyweight, who left the ring bleeding profusely from both ears, with his chin cut, several broken ribs, concussion of the brain.
P: Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island, N. Y.
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