Monday, Aug. 18, 1952
Who Won
P: The U.S. Olympic two-mile relay team of Bill Ashenfelter, Reggie Pearman, Johnny Barnes and Mal Whitfield, by 40 yards over Britain's team, to set a world mark of 7 min. 29.2 sec.; U.S. Hurdler Charley Moore, through a driving rain, the 440-yd. event in a world record 51.6 sec.; at the post-Olympic British Games in London.
P: The Philadelphia Athletics' pint-size Pitcher Bobby Shantz (TIME, June 23), over the Boston Red Sox, 5 to 3, to become the first major-league hurler to win 20 games this season.
P: Nobody over nobody, in the 1952 Olympic Games, according to Soviet Sport Commissar Nikolai Romanov in an exclusive Pravda interview. Romanov's final reckoning of the unofficial national team scores: Russia, 494 points; U.S., 494.
P: Heavyweight Rex Layne, a ten-round decision over former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, by a much-disputed verdict of Referee & Sole Judge Jack Dempsey; in Ogden, Utah.
P: Calumet Farm's 3-to-5 favorite Mark-Ye-Well, 1 1/8-mile, $100,000-added American Derby, by 2 1/4 lengths, after he took the lead in the stretch and lengthened it all the way home; at Chicago's Washington Park. The race hoisted Calumet's 1952 winnings to $1,091,262, gave Jockey Eddie Arcaro his 29th stakes victory of the year.
National Open Golf Champion Julius Boros, the 18-hole playoff of the $90,000 "World" golf tournament, with a score of 68 to beat out Runner-Up Gary Middlecoff, who carded a 70, after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham, 280.
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