Monday, Jun. 18, 1951
Who Won
>C. V. Whitney's Counterpoint (114 Ibs.), the $24,950 Peter Pan Handicap, over Battlefield (123 Ibs.) and six other three-year-old nominees for this week's Belmont Stakes, setting a track record (1:47-4/5) for the mile-and-one-eighth; at New York.
>Manhattan Restaurateur Jack Amiel's Derby winner Count Turf, the $5,000 Polynesian Purse, in another Belmont preview; at New York. After the race, Preakness winner Bold, who finished third in a field of three, was withdrawn from the Belmont because of sore shins.
>Mrs. Kitty MacCann of Tullamore, Ireland, playing with sun-blistered arms swathed in bandages, the British women's amateur golf championship, on a hilly, gorse-infested course; in Broadstone, England. Complained U.S. Champion Beverly Hanson, after losing in the quarterfinals: "It was an insult to our intelligence to ask us to play on that terrible course. It was a nightmare."
>Tony Bettenhausen, driving the 330-h.p. Belanger Special that won the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway (TIME, June11), the 100-mile A.A.A. national championship auto race; in Milwaukee.
>Laur M. Crannell Jr. of North Texas State College, the Trans-Mississippi amateur golf tournament, over Don Addington, 7 and 6; in Dallas.
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