Sport: Who Won, Sep. 27, 1937

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Horse racing

Hal Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed.

Boat racing

Gar Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond.

Golf

Ralph Guldahl, burly Chicago professional golfer, this year's National Open champion: the Western Open championship, defeating Horton Smith by four strokes in an 18-hole playoff; at Cleveland.

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