¶ Aging Henry Armstrong, 31, onetime triple champion; his first big fight after his second retirement; by knocking out Al ("Bummy") Davis in the second round; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.
¶ Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting.
¶ Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
