Who Won

P: Beer-drinking, 230-lb. Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket to a fight." P: Seattle's Al Hostak, 22-year-old pugilist: the middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele of Tacoma, in less than two minutes; before 35,000 astonished spectators; at Seattle. It was the 16th knockout in a row for young Hostak, who has lost only one of his 59 professional fights. P:The minor-league Albany Senators: an exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-to-6; during which 44-year-old Dodger Babe Ruth smacked a ball over the right-field fence for his first homerun in three years; before a record-breaking crowd of 11,724 who had stormed the ball park to see him do just that; at Hawkins Stadium, Albany. For his accomplishment, 240-lb. Babe Ruth, like every baseballer who gets a homer in Hawkins Stadium, received a case of breakfast food (Wheaties). P: The Gilmore: a new world's record for a five-man skeetteam; thus breaking their month-old world's record score (491 out of 500); at Los Angeles. New record: 495 out of 500.

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