Monday, Jul. 12, 1937
Who Won
P: Glenn Cunningham, Kansas miler, running for the New York Curb Exchange Athletic Association: the 1,500-metre race at the 50th Amateur Athletic Union championships; in Milwaukee. As Cunningham broke into a spurt some 200 yd. from the tape, Archie San Romani, leading by a stride, tripped on the curb, accidentally spiking Cunningham, who bravely shot on to finish in a fast 3 min. 51.8 sec. San Romani regained his feet, dashed in fourth. University of Southern California's soaring Bill Sefton & Earle Meadows and Cornelius Warmerdam & George Varoff of San Francisco's Olympic Club all topped Varoff's accepted world pole-vault record (14 ft. 6&3189; in.) with 14 ft. 7 5/8 in.
P: Ranger, Harold S. Vanderbilt's yacht: a 30-mi. triangular race against Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, first of the final trials off Newport, R. I. to select the America's Cup defender; in 2 hr. 43 min. 43 sec., fastest triangular time on record.
P: William ("Billy") Kloss Jr., 13, of Canton, Ohio: the U. S. marbles championship ; five games to two against Andrew Tanana of Throop, Pa., in the play-off to settle a tie after a four-day tournament in which 54 municipal champions competed; at the lively seaside resort of Wildwood, N. J., whose lively mayor, Doris Bradway, presided over the tournament.
Started in New York by the World about 15 years ago, municipal marbles championships spread rapidly to other cities. Included in last week's field was one girl, June Lapham, 13, of Cleveland, but none of Whiteville, Tenn.'s group of marble-playing oldsters from 50 to 79, who hold their own tournament every year. Champion Kloss, an eighth-grade public-school student, lost only eight out of 57 games last week, was presented with a "golden" crown, set with a marble.
Tabor Academy's schoolboy crew (Marion, Mass.); the Thames Challenge Cup, after defeating five seasoned rowing-club crews, in the Royal Henley Regatta, No. 1 event of England's club rowing season; for the second year in succession; at Henley-on-Thames, England.
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