Monday, May. 24, 1937

Who Won

P: Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. P: Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special.

P: Golfer Jimmy Hines of Garden City, N. Y.: the Metropolitan Open Championship, first event on the richest summer golf schedule on record, in which prize money for 19 tournaments will total $100,000; with 279 for four rounds, to 280 for Henry Picard, 283 for Sam Snead whose record-breaking 65 was canceled when rain forced the second round to be replayed; at Bloomfield, N. J.

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