> The Chicago Bears, last year’s national professional football champions: a night game (for charity); against a team of college All-Stars poll-picked from the recent graduates of college football; 37-to-13; before a crowd of 98,200; at Soldier Field, Chicago. The forward passing of Quarterback Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, was responsible for three of the Bears’ five touchdowns.
> Sturdy, blonde Louise Brough, 18, of Beverly Hills, Calif.: the National Girls’ tennis championship; for the second year in a row; defeating 16-year-old Doris Hart of Miami in the final, 7-5, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Few weeks ago, up-&-coming Miss Brough, displaying an astounding serve, trounced Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, one of the foremost challengers for the National Women’s championship to be played at Forest Hills this week. Youngster Brough will compete at Forest Hills too.
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