Sport: Who Won
¶ The U.S. Davis Cup Team, over Canada in five straight matches; in Montreal. After Dick Savitt and Tony Trabert won their singles matches in straight sets, Trabert and Budge Patty clinched the title with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 victory in the doubles. Next day Patty and Art Larsen took their singles to complete the shutout. Next stop: The interzone final matches against Sweden in Australia next December.
¶ Australia's Frank Sedgman, over Australia's Mervyn Rose, in the first all-foreign final in the history of the Newport (R.I.) Invitation Tennis Tournament singles.
¶ Ben Hogan, with a blazing final 6-under-par round of 66 for a 72-hole total of 273, the $12,500 top money (golf's biggest prize) in the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club's $50,000 tournament; at Chicago. Tied for eighth place: Lloyd Mangrum, who played his home course under police guard after a threatening telephone call (TIME, Aug. 13).
¶ Former Middleweight Champion "Rocky" Graziano, after a second-round knockout of Chuck Hunter, in a fight that looked so phony to the referee that Hunter's purse was impounded; in Boston.
¶ Bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Tempo VI, the National Sweepstakes (speedboat) championship ten-mile race; at Red Bank, N.J.
¶ Mary McNabb, 17, Tuskegee Institute freshman, the 200 meter dash in 0:24.3 seconds (new U.S. record) and the 50 meter dash in 0:06.4 seconds (tying the U.S. record) at the National Amateur Athletic Union Junior Track & Field Championships; in Waterbury, Conn.
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