Sport: Who Won, May 17, 1937

Southern California’s track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California’s two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world’s record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto.*

¶ Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York.

*In Philadelphia last week, Temple University’s Track Coach Ben Ogden proposed an innovation to enable pole-vaulters to avoid “jarring their nervous system when they land on the ground”: a net, like those used by circus trapezists, stretched seven feet above the ground, to catch them on the way down.