--- description: ¶At Forest Hills, Bobby Riggs defeated Don Budge for the national pro tennis championship, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-3. ¶At Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records:... title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 30, 1947 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Sport: Who Won, Jun. 30, 1947 by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 30, 1947 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Jun 30, 1947 4:00 AM CUT ¶At Forest Hills, Bobby Riggs defeated Don Budge for the national pro tennis championship, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-3\. ¶At Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world’s records: Illinois’ Herb McKenley ran the quarter-mile in :46.2, and Baldwin-Wallace’s Harrison Dillard, the 220-yard low hurdles in :22.3\. Each was two-tenths of a second better than the old record. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792229/sport-who-won-jun-30-1947/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792229/sport-who-won-jun-30-1947/"},"headline":"Sport: Who Won, Jun. 30, 1947","datePublished":"1947-06-30T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T19:04:21.021Z","description":"¶At Forest Hills, Bobby Riggs defeated Don Budge for the national pro tennis championship, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8, 4-6, 6-3. ¶At Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records:...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6792229/sport-who-won-jun-30-1947/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6792229/sport-who-won-jun-30-1947/","name":"Sport: Who Won, Jun. 30, 1947"}}]}] ```