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Sport: Who Won Apr. 7, 1930

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¶ The Oxford University golf team, with three U. S. members— Captain R. H. Baugh Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., Charles Sweeney and Harry Scheftel of Manhattan: its annual match with Cambridge, 12 points to 3.

¶ The Feminine Sports Federation of France: a legal contest with Mme Violette Morris, female hockey player who had brought suit for $4,000 damages because the Federation had taken away her membership for wearing trousers, talking indecently, refusing to reform (TIME, March 10). Said Mme Morris: “I will get a pilot’s license. The air is the only place left where a woman can wear pants.”

¶ Maureen Orcutt: the Women’s Mid-South medal play golf tournament at Southern Pines, N. C., beating National Champion Glenna Collett by three strokes.

¶ Jimmy McLarnin, Irish welterweight who wears a harp on his bathrobe, turns handsprings in the ring whenever he gets a decision, scorns any bout that brings him less than $20,000: a decision in Madison Square Garden from Negro Young Jack Thompson, in spite of the fact that Thompson had won six out of the ten rounds and that McLarnin had repeatedly been warned for hitting low.

¶ Paul Runyan, 21, assistant professional at the Forest Hill Club, Bloomfield, N. J.: the North & South Open at Pinehurst, N. C., beating Horton Smith, Tommy Armour, Johnny Farrell, Joe Turnesa.

¶ Flatheaded, big-nosed, bashful Markus Schussheim, who runs a messenger service, wears sneakers, plays with an oldfashioned, oval bat, concentrates on getting the ball back; the ping pong championship of New York, beating blond, elegant Curt Gerstman, bank employe, once a member of the German international table tennis team; in straight sets.

¶ Round-faced, left-handed John Doeg, No. 3 ranking U. S. tennis player: the Southeastern championship in St. Augustine, beating J. Gilbert Hall in an exciting match on clay courts after Hall had him match-point. A few days later Doeg lost a local tournament finals match to George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago.

¶ Bull-necked Richard Shikat, called wrestling champion of the, world in New York and Pennsylvania: a bout with Ferenc Holuban, Hungarian, who lay writhing on the floor beyond the ropes, fouled by one of Shikat’s headlong lunges, while the referee gave the match to Shikat. Annoyed by the decision, the crowd rioted, charged the officials, were pushed back by police, entrenched themselves behind benches, throwing bottles, refuse.

¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: A bout from one Jack McAuliffe, thirteenth set-up of his current tour, in Denver, by a knockout in the first round.

¶ The Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College wrestling team: The National Collegiate Wrestling Championship for the third year in succession, in the new gymnasium at Penn State.

¶ The Princeton University polo team, considered to have no chance: The National Intercollegiate Indoor Polo Championship, beating a West Point team that had beaten Yale.

¶ Eagle Ferris, $5,000 pointer: The open all-age stake at the spring trials of the Kentucky Pointer & Setter Club at Camp Knox, beating Champion Frank Brown’s Sam. setter.

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