Monday, Sep. 20, 1937
Who Won
Swimming
P: Ralph Flanagan, Miami free-style star, his third A.A.U. mile championship with a new world's record of 20 min. 42.6 sec., bettering Jack Medica's 1934 mark by 15.2 sec.; his second 440-yd. championship with a U. S. and meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship to 1 min. 6.3 sec.
Horse Racing
P: Gib White's Rosalind; the world's mile-and-a-half trotting record; with a 3:12 1/2 victory in the $15,000 All-American Stake Handicap at the New York State Fair at Syracuse.
Yachting
P: George Huntington Hartford's square-rigged sailing vessel Joseph Conrad with Alexis Troonin at the wheel; its Newport-to-Bermuda race with William S. Gubelmann's square-rigger Seven Seas; by arriving in Hamilton harbor 55 sec. ahead after racing 10 days, 1 hour, 57 sec. The Seven Seas challenged on the ground that the Joseph Conrad crossed the finish line under drive of an auxiliary engine, later withdrew its protest.
Shooting
P: The U. S. Marines' ten-man rifle squad; their third National Rifle Association team championship in which 119 teams participated; scoring 2,788 (out of a possible 3,000) against the U. S. Cavalry's 2,764, the U. S. Infantry's 2,760; at Camp Perry, Ohio. The Los Angeles Police five-man team won the .45 caliber pistol match, scoring 1,332 (out of a possible 1,500) to beat the U. S. Marines' 1920 record of 1,330.
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