Sport: Who Won, Mar. 16, 1931

¶ The Cambridge University track team: its 63rd annual meet with Oxford, 8 first places to 3. Chief star: R. M. N. Tisdall, rangy Irishman, who won the shot put, running broad jump, 20-yard high hurdles, quarter-mile.

¶ The Yale swimming team: a meet with Princeton, 48 to 23. Each had won six meets in a row though neither water polo team (see below) had won a game all season. Princeton won the water polo game, 37—30. Yale's swimming team has not lost an intercollegiate meet since 1924.

¶ Marcel Guimbretiere and Alfred Latourner: Manhattan's semi-annual six-day bicycle race, tieing in total laps with Linari and Brocardo, but winning by a margin of 334 points scored in sprints.

¶ The Pennsylvania track team: the indoor intercollegiates in Manhattan in a meet in which the four quarter-milers of Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Steele, Healey, Carr) did their distance in 3 min., 17 8/10 sec.—another new world's record.

¶ Earl Brydges, musher from Cranberry Portage: the 200-mi. non-stop dogsled derby at The Pas, Manitoba, riding in his sled, too tired to mush, with three played-out dogs in the sled with him, and six pulling. Shorty Russic was second; Emil St. Goddard, the favorite, third.

¶ Harry F. Wolf, defending champion, with his famed service working well: the national squash tennis championship in Manhattan, beating Rowland B. Haines in the finals, 6—15, 18—17, 18—17, 15—4.

¶ Jay Gould and William C. Wright: the U. S. court tennis doubles championship for the fourth time, in Philadelphia, beating Edward Edwards and John Bell Jr. 6—3, 6—3, 1—6, 4—6, 6—2.

¶ Lightning Bolt, dark bay gelding owned by Mrs. John Hay (Mary Elizabeth Altemus) Whitney: with Vice President Curtis watching, the $14,300 Florida derby, climax of the Miami Jockey Club's 45-day meeting at Hialeah Park, Fla.

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