Who Won: Apr. 26, 1963

—> Toronto’s Maple Leafs: the Stanley Cup playoffs, for the second year in a row, beating the Detroit Red Wings four games to one to win pro ice hockey’s biggest prize. A mixture of callow youths and creaking veterans, the Leafs confounded experts by finishing the regular season on top, brushing past the Montreal Canadiens in the play-off semifinals. Then, led by well-mannered (one penalty all season) Center Dave Keon, 23, who scored four goals and chipped in two assists, they skated rings around the Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and $2,000 per man. —> Belgium’s Aurele Vandendriessche: the 26-mile, 385-yd. Boston Marathon, thus becoming the 17th foreigner to win the Patriot’s Day race in the last 18 years. A bookkeeper in a cotton mill, Vandendriessche, 30, loped leisurely through the Newton hills, had no thought of winning until two miles from the finish when he found Ethiopia’s heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut’s Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York’s Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start of the 1⅛-mile race, the undefeated bay colt belonging to Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight, stamped him as a strong contender—along with Rex Ellsworth’s Candy Spots and Harry Guggenheim’s Never Bend—for next week’s Kentucky Derby.