> Warren Wright's three-year-old Whirlaway, with Alfred Robertson up: the $60,000 American Derby; traveling the 1¼ miles in 2 min. 4 sec. to equal the record for the 31-year-old classic; before a crowd of 40,000; at Washington Park, near Chicago. Winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Dwyer, Saranac and Travers Stakes, "Whirly" has earned $243,000 this season, upped his lifetime earnings to $320,611$117,000 under the all-time high earned by Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit.
> Bobby Jones and team: a series of golf matches (for the U.S.O.) against the U.S. Ryder Cup team...
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