Sport: Who Won, Apr. 19, 1937

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¶ The Lake Shore Athletic Club (Chicago) : the National A. A. U. indoor swimming team championship, 27 points to 26 for the University of Michigan; at New Haven.

Feature of the meet was an uproar after the last event when officials disqualified the Princeton team which had finished first, awarded the event to Lake Shore A. C.

¶ The University of Southern California track team: 79-to-52; its annual meet with the University of California, in which Southern California's Bill Sefton pole-vaulted to a new world's record of 14 ft. 7⅜ in.; at Los Angeles.

¶ Golfer Henry Picard of Hershey, Pa., Charleston's annual "Tournament of the Gardens"; for the third year in a row; with 282 for four rounds to long-driving Jimmy Thomson's 283.

¶ The New York Athletic Club's indoor polo team of Clarence Combs, William Nicholls and Arthur Borden: the U. S. senior championship for the fourth consecutive year; 11½-to-10 against the Chicago Ramblers in the second game of the two-out-of-three East-West series; at New York.

¶ David Milford, British schoolteacher at Marlborough: the world's racquets championship, 15-4, 15-4, 15-9, 15-12, for a total of seven games, against Norbert Setzler, New York racquets professional, who won four out of seven games in the first half of their serial match in New York three months ago (TIME, Jan. 25); in London.

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