Who Won

P: One Bert Gates: the first U. S. Codeball-on-the-Green Championship; with a score of 69 for 15 bowls; at Forest Park, St. Louis.

Codeball-on-the-Green was invented in 1929 by Dr. William Edward Code of Chicago to oblige his friend, the late Anton J. Cermak, then head of the Cook County Board, who sought an inexpensive outdoor game suited to large playgrounds. A combination of golf and soccer, its object is to kick a large, lively rubber ball down stretches of "fairway" into 14 specially constructed bowls in the smallest possible number of kicks. A set of bowls with flags, kickoff-markers and 48 inflated 12-oz. balls, all the equipment required to play Codeball anywhere, costs about $100. There are now estimated to be 50,000 competent Codeballers in the U. S.

For 57-year-old Dr. Code, inventing Codeball-on-the-Green (on which he holds patents and copyrights) was the natural climax for a lifetime spent trying to improve and rearrange the purposes of other pastimes and occupations. He began by using a golf ball & driver to knock over bowling pins. He once bowled 228 balls in an hour. He won a wager by playing 18 holes of golf in 40 min., 45 sec., after wearing out three caddies, five scorers. He played 154 holes of golf in a day, stopped lest younger members of his club find his example an encouragement to overexertion. During an influenza epidemic. Dr. Code made 1,600 calls in 36 days. Having invented Codeball-on-the-Green, Dr. Code was still not satisfied. He later invented Codeball-in-the-Court, a combination of handball and soccer, at which the U. S. champion is one Gilbert Shaw of Yonkers, N. Y.

P: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's racehorse Discovery, which last year finished behind Cavalcade in four races: the Brooklyn Handicap, in world-record time for the distance (1 1/8 mi.) of 1,148.2, with King Saxon second and Omaha third; at Aqueduct Racetrack, Long Island.

P: Ohio State's Jesse Owens: three races (100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes, 220-yd. low hurdles) and the broad jump, without being forced to break a world record; at the National Collegiate Athletic Association track meet in which he made 40 of the 401 points that gave Ohio State a total second only to the 75 1/30 rolled up by Southern California's 23-man team-at Berkeley, Calif.

P: Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's three-year-old filly Black Helen: the $25,000 added American Derby; with Mrs. John D. Hertz's Count Arthur half a length behind; at Washington Park, Chicago.

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