¶ Easter Hero, handsome, fast steeple chaser, recent Grand National favorite, now suffering from a strained tendon: the Cheltenham Gold Cup at Cheltenham, England, with owner John Hay Whitney of Manhattan looking on.
¶ The Columbia University basketball team, with a Negro, George Gregory, as its centre and high-scorer: the eastern intercollegiate league championship.
¶ Stella Walsh, grim-faced, Slav-eyed, broadshouldered, thick-thewed, 18 years old: a 220-yd. race around two turns in Madison Square Garden, in 26 1/10 sec. (new world's record for women, indoor and outdoor).
¶ Vincent Richards, onetime National Amateur doubles champion, fatter than he used to be but stronger, still reputed to be the best volleyer in the world: the Southern Professional Tennis championship at Palm Beach, beating in the finals Paul Heston, private tennis instructor to Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, 6-0, 7-5, 6-3.
¶ Mrs. Helen Stetson of Philadelphia, onetime national women's golf champion: the annual Belleair, Fla., tournament.
¶ T. Philip Perkins, onetime (1928) British amateur golf champion, who lights one cigaret from another when playing, calls his caddy ''laddy" and was well liked by his U. S. opponents in the Walker Cup matches of 1928 but unpopular with his teammates because of his alleged conceit: the Bermuda amateur championship at the Riddell's Bay Club.
In St. Louis, Percy N. Collins of Chicago, four times national amateur 18.2 balkline billiard champion, won the title again by trouncing Champion Ray V. Fessenden of Madison, Wis., 300 to 76 in 13 innings.