Sport: Who Won, Aug. 18, 1941
> Slammin' Sam Snead of Hot Springs, Va.: the Canadian Open golf championship; for the third time in four years; with a 72-hole total of 274 (71-68-66-69); over the Lambton golf course, Toronto. Snead, one of the world's greatest shotmakers, has never won a national U.S. golf championship.
> Joe Wood Jr., Yale '41, now pitching for the minor-league Scranton Red Sox: a no-hit, no-run game against the Albany Senators; 5-to-0; at Scranton, Pa. Watching his performance was Wood's father, famed Smoky Joe, who, by the same score, 30 years ago almost to the day, chalked up a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. > Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg: the National Boys' (under 15) tennis championship; for the second successive year; defeating Jack Tuero of New Orleans, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, in the final; at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. In the Junior (under 18) championship, held simultaneously, Budge Patty, another Hollywoodian, won the title after a titanic struggle with Philadelphia's Victor Seixas, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 10-8. It was the ninth year in a row (starting with Don Budge in 1933) that the Junior crown had gone to a Californian.
> San Antonio's Charles H. Poulton, 41 : the national all-gauge skeet championship; outshooting 28-year-old Alex Kerr of California in a 175-bird shoot-off, after each had broken 250 straight in the regular event; at Indianapolis.
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