Sport: Who Won, Feb. 24, 1941

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> Ch. My Own Brucie, coal-black cocker spaniel owned by Herman E. Mellenthin of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: the Westminster Kennel Club best-in-show, crowning glory in a dog's life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy, who placed second and third respectively; on the blue ice of blue-blooded Philadelphia's Skating Club and Humane Society. Only one American placed among the first five: U. S. Champion Jane Vaughn, fourth. In the men's singles, the judges' complicated scoring awarded the title to 196-lb. Ralph McCreath, Canadian champion, by .8 of a point over U. S. Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago.