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...Park. Winner of this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, Whirlaway is the fifth horse in the history of U.S. turf to win America's three major races for three-year-olds. Others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral. > Tennist Fred Perry, onetime British Davis Cupper now teaching tennis in the U.S.: an invitation Professional Round Robin Tennis championship (10% of receipts for British War Relief); defeating creaking, 48-year-old Bill Tilden (4-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2), up-&-coming Dick Skeen of Hollywood...
...Frank Kukuljevic, Ferenc Puncec and Demeter Mitic, Yugoslavia Davis Cup tennis team: the European Zone Final; defeating Germany's Henner Henkel, Rolf Copfert and Roderich Menzel (onetime Czech Davis Cupper); three matches to two; at Zagreb, Yugoslavia. During the doubles match, while Henkel & Menzel were beating Puncec & Kukuljevic, Yugoslavian spectators, resenting the appearance of Menzel on the German team, booed "Back to Sudetenland!", raised such a rumpus that the Germans hired a bodyguard to protect their Anschlussed star. By winning the European Zone Final, Yugoslavia qualified to meet Australia (unless Australia loses to Cuba) in the Interzone Final...
...England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made a mistake in dropping that fellow...
After the first day of match play, in which favorite Charley Yates and four of his Walker Cup teammates were swept out of the tournament by dark horses, Spectator Vines was still hanging around. For Pat Abbott was the dark horse who had eliminated Walker Cupper Ray Billows, runner-up to Johnny Goodman in last year's championship...
...team from Down Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed, both-handed racket grip. On the U. S. side was the world's No. 1 amateur, U. S.-English-French-Australian Champion Donald Budge; his doubles partner, Gene Mako; and 20-year-old Robert Riggs, the Los Angeles "quickie" who in two years had jumped from the municipal tennis courts...