¶ Charley Smoot, Negro jockey, up on Rooney: the Westbury steeplechase at Belmont Park, L. I., taking the right rein in his teeth when the collarbone he had fractured the day before broke completely as he struggled to right his mount after a hard landing over the water jump in front of the stands.
¶ Mrs. Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth Ryan: the women's doubles tennis championship of France at Auteuil.
¶ Richard Chapman of Pomfret school: the eastern interscholastic golf championship, with a 20-ft. putt on the last green in the finals, from Tommy Tailer,...
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