Sport: Who Won, May 24, 1937

¶ Samuel D. Riddle's three-year-old race horse War Admiral, ridden by seasoned Jockey Charley Kurtsinger: the 47th Preakness Stakes, for a prize of $45,600; by a head, after a neck & neck drive against Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon, whom he outran by almost two lengths in last fortnight's Kentucky Derby; at Pimlico racetrack, Baltimore, Md. ¶ Marshall Eldredge, 36-year-old East Weymouth, Mass, mechanic: the tenth annual 130-mi. Albany to New York boat race, No. 1 event of the year for outboards; at 41.7 m.p.h.; in a Jacoby Flyaway Special.

¶ Golfer Jimmy...

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