¶ Joe Kirkwood, seasoned golf professional of Philadelphia: the North & South Open championship; with a record score of 277; at Pinehurst. Long famed for his skill at “trick” shots, Kirkwood two months ago stopped playing in theatres, so improved his game that in four rounds at Pinehurst not one of his drives landed off the fairway.
¶ Miss Dorrance Chase of Dorchester, Mass.: the U. S. women’s indoor tennis championship; 6-3, 6-2, against Helen Germaine, public parks champion, in the final; at Longwood.
¶ Scotland: an international soccer match with England; 2 goals to 1; at Glasgow. The match settled the International championship, which England had a chance to win, in favor of Wales. A corps of ambulances attended to members of the crowd of 134,170 who fainted in the heat or were crushed swaying back & forth in community singing led by Sir Harry Lauder. In Dublin the same afternoon Scotland won the International Rugby championship by beating Ireland, 8 to 6.
¶ Norman W. Church’s four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap’s track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico.
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