¶Onetime heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling: a bout against blond young Walter Neusel. watched by the biggest German prizefight crowd (100,000) on record; when Neusel failed to leave his corner of the ring for the ninth round: in Hamburg.
¶Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup contender Rainbow: a 30-mi. race against Frederick Henry Prince's Weetamoe; in light winds, off Newport. After the race, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee announced that Weetamoe had been eliminated as a possible defender, waited to see what Yankee, winner of most of the trials, could do against Rainbow...
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