Who Won

P: Jimmy ("Babyface") McLarnin, hammer-fisted Vancouver fighter: the world's welterweight championship; by knocking out Champion Young Corbett III in 2 min. 30 sec.; in Los Angeles. P: The New York Yankees: a ballgame against Philadelphia, 17 to 11, with three runs in the second inning, one in the third, ten in the fifth, and three in the eighth when Babe Ruth clouted his tenth homer of the season with two men on base; in Manhattan. The Athletics scored all their runs in one inning, the third. Yankee Pitcher Walter Brown fanned 12 men in six and one-third innings.

P: Apprentice-Jockey Jack Westrope, 16: five races in a single afternoon,* on horses Bedight, Lady Menifee, Whirling, Cold Check and Prince Farthing; at Washington Park, Chicago. P: Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player: the French hard court singles title, defeating Henri Cochet in the final, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3; at Auteuil, France.

*The record, shared by five jockeys, is seven races in one afternoon. Five U. S. jockeys have ridden six winners in a day. One of them is famed Earle Sande who won six consecutive races at Havre de Grace Sept. 17. 1919.

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