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Last week, before 7,000 eyewitnesses, the prestige of U. S. sport pickers was put to a test. On Detroit's dog-tiring, tricky Oakland Hills course, Gene Sarazen's "leftouts" teed up against Walter Hagen's "ins" in a two-day challenge match under Ryder Cup rules (four two-ball foursomes, eight singles matches...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
Cheering spectators will line the banks of the Thames river at New London today, as another of the age-old rowing contests with Yale gets under way. The two-day regatta starts with the combination race this afternoon, and continues tomorrow with the Freshman, Jayvee, and Varsity encounters...
Addressing an audience of 20,000 (including 2,000 Red Cross nurses) in Berlin's Sportspalast, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels recited a two-day score as follows: two British cruisers sunk, two heavily damaged, a battleship damaged, a heavy destroyer and a submarine sunk, a large transport bombed with severe loss of life near Narvik. Preceding and succeeding Nazi claims would have accounted for 61 units of the British Fleet in the past fortnight. Of this list, the British admitted losing only four destroyers and one submarine...
...humbling the teams of 35 U. S. colleges and nosing out Yale, its traditional closest rival, by three points; in Yale's magnificent Payne Whitney Pool, at New Haven. Tied with its host in the halfway standings, Michigan clinched the championship in the very last event on the two-day program with a world-record-breaking 3:31 in the 400-yd. free-style relay...