Sport: Who Won, Dec. 14, 1931

¶ Richard K. Mellon's n-year-old steeplechaser Glangesia, ridden by Gentleman Jockey J. E. Ryan: a gold cup, provided by ex-King Alfonso of Spain, $6,620, and the plaudits of 15,000 socialites and others, for finishing first in the second running of the Grasslands International Steeplechase, at Grasslands Downs, Tenn. Second by 15 lengths was Mrs. T. H. Somerville's Troublemaker.

¶ Alfred Letourner & Marcel Guimbre-tiere, French "Red Devils": the sist riding of Manhattan's Six-Day Bicycle Race, at Madison Square Garden. Second, by a lap lost in the last hour, was a team of French unknowns, Georges Coupry & Michel Pecqueux.

¶Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time.

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