¶ The University of Indiana track team: the Central Intercollegiate Conference championships; by scoring 39 points, ten of which Don Lash contributed by reeling off new meet records in the mile and two-mile runs; at Milwaukee.
¶ Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world’s light-heavyweight title he won from Olin in 1935.
¶ Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George’s Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England.
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