Sport: Who Won, Aug. 13, 1934

¶ Vernon ("Goofy") Gomez" famed left-handed pitcher of the New York Yankees: a game in which the Philadelphia Athletics got only one hit, when three of his teammates helped each other miss an infield fly; 3-to-1; in New York.

¶Jack Torrance. Louisiana State's 275-Ib. weight-thrower, with a Brobdingnagian heave of 57 ft., 5 in. that broke all previous world's records, official or otherwise: the 16-lb. shot-put in an international track meet at Oslo, Norway.

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