Monday, Aug. 03, 1931

Who Won

P: Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, best athlete of Dallas, Tex.: the running broad jump, baseball throw and 80-metre hurdles championships for women, with a world's record (12 sec.) in the hurdle race. In the same meet, at Jersey City, famed Stella Walsh was arrested for throwing a discus which accidentally cracked the pate of a spectator.

P: Willis Sharpe Kilmer's six-year-old race horse Sun Beau: the $19,450 Arlington Cup race, at Chicago, increasing his total winnings to $302,794 ($37,871 below the record made by Gallant Fox).

P: Paavo Nurmi: a two-mile race at Helsingfors, Finland; in 8 min., 59 3/5 sec., a world's record (Nurmi's twelfth).

P: The Roslyn Polo Team (Raymond Christy Firestone, Seymour H. Knox, Harold E. Talbott Jr., William H. Post II): the Junior Polo Championship, beating the Aiken Knights 9 to 6 in the final at Rumson, N. J.

P: Dorade, 52-ft. yawl sailed by Olin J. Stephens II & crew of seven: a race from Newport, R. I. to Plymouth, England, in 17 days, 2 hr., 14 min. Shrewd, 22-year-old Skipper Stephens gambled on a northern course, caught following winds most of the way. Partner in a Manhattan firm of naval architects, he designed Dorade last year, is part owner with his father who was one of his crew. Second in the race was Richard F. Lawrence's Skaal; third Paul D. Rust Jr.'s Amberjack II. William Roos's sloop Lismore, hindered by a broken mast, was last.

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