Sport: Who Won, Jun. 26, 1944

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¶ Aging Henry Armstrong, 31, onetime triple champion; his first big fight after his second retirement; by knocking out Al ("Bummy") Davis in the second round; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.

¶ Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting.

¶ Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals.

¶ The Boston Red Sox; the major-league bidding for Dick Callahan, 19, prep-school pitcher-of-the-year in New Orleans. The winning bid: a $350-a-month contract plus a $15,000 bonus, biggest ever paid a prep-school recruit. Southpaw Callahan wears a brace on his left leg, the result of a fracture suffered in a game five years ago. The Navy gave him a medical discharge after seven months. For New Orleans' Holy Cross this season, he pitched 26 consecutive hitless innings, 86 strikeouts.