Sport: Who Won, Dec. 4, 1950

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¶ In Manhattan, young (22) heavyweight aspirant Rex Layne, over aged (36), onetime near-champion Jersey Joe Walcott, in a ten-round decision which had some enthusiasts rushing to tag Layne, fresh from Utah and still pretty clumsy, as heavyweight boxing's new "white hope."

¶ In Inglewood, Calif., William Goetz's Your Host over Calumet Farm's Ponder (by a nose) and Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince (by another neck) in the $35,000 Thanksgiving Day Handicap, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth.

¶ In Minneapolis, the Fort Wayne Pistons over the Minneapolis Lakers, 19-18, for the lowest score in modern professional basketball history, the first home-court defeat for the Lakers in 29 games.

¶ In Cambridge, Oxford women over Cambridge women, by two lengths, to win the annual women's crew race.

¶ In Manhattan, in a season opener, the City College basketball team over Brooklyn's St. Francis, 81-62, to take up where City College left off last year as both the N.C.A.A. and National Invitation champion.

¶ In Buenos Aires, Argentina's Venado Tuerto polo team over the U.S.'s Bostwick Field, 14-10, in the first of two games for the Americas Cup, last competed for in 1936.