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Gavilan's margin was decisive. But Bratton's performance looked a lot more impressive after it turned out that he had fought the last eleven rounds under a double handicap: a broken right hand and a broken jaw. In his dressing room, Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...
...Golf tournament; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek Ship and Lotowhite; at Jamaica...
...Special Touch, the $15,000 Premiere Handicap at Inglewood, Calif. The Calumet Farm's Citation, losing his fifth straight race, was fifth, the first time he has ever run out of the money. ¶ Mrs. Wantha Davis, who once beat Jockey Johnny Longden in a match race, the ninth running of the Pimlico Ladies' Race, over five other women jockeys; at Pimlico...
...Calumet Farm's Coaltown, still on the comeback trail, the $25,000 Children's Hospital Handicap, by two lengths; in San Mateo, Calif...
Despite this handicap, week-end evenings see a sizeable caravan leave, the shores of the Charles for those of the Waban, where the lassies "would rather go out with Harvard men than almost anybody...