> Ohio State’s track team: three of the six varsity relays (quarter-mile, half-mile, mile) at the 33rd annual Drake Relays, the Midwest’s No. 1 track meet; setting a new meet record for the half-mile (1 min., 25.9 sec.); at Des Moines, Iowa. In a special invitation race, Roy Cochran, onetime Indiana University star, now wearing the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, chalked up 52:2 for the 440-yd.—a new world’s record.
> Winton, an eight-year-old gelding owned and ridden by Socialite Stuart S. Janney Jr: the 49th running of the Maryland Hunt Cup, stiffest steeplechase in the U.S.; outjumping eight stout rivals and finishing the awesome four-mile course in 8 min., 44 4/5sec.; near Baltimore. Having won the Grand National and My Lady’s Manor point-to-points on two previous Saturdays, Janney & Winton made a grand slam of Maryland’s famed hunt races—a feat never before accomplished.
> Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned professional, and Don McNeill and Joe Hunt are in the Navy, young Seixas may be a leading contender for this year’s national championship.
> Boston’s N. May Karff: the U.S. women’s chess championship; for the fourth time in five years; defeating all eight opponents; at the Hotel Astor, Manhattan. Second place went to Mrs. Donald Belcher, 1940 champion; third to Nanny Roos, onetime Belgian champion.
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