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Every summer, around the Fourth of July, the interest of U. S. sport fans focuses on the British Isles where three of the oldest and most important sport events in the world are usually going full swing: the Henley Royal Regatta, the British Open golf tournament and the All-England tennis championships...
...Henley. Oldest and toniest of the three is the Henley Regatta, this year celebrating its 100th anniversary. To row at Henley is the ambition of every oarsman in the world. Last week at that famed little spot 30 miles from London, where the Thames creeps between chalk hills, 50,000 gaily decked Britons turned out for the four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass...
...Wimbledon. Younger but more famed than Henley or the Open are the All-England tennis championships, held at hallowed Wimbledon for the 59th time last week. With Donald Budge playing for pay and Helen Wills Moody in retirement, U. S. stay-at-homes held out little hope for their Wimbledonians this year. But, after a fortnight of elimination matches, the two men who faced each other on the famed centre court were 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, and Elwood Cooke, an unheralded 25-year-old Oregonian who had defeated France's Christian Boussus, England...
...77th Harvard-Yale boat race, oldest (1852) intercollegiate sporting event in the U. S.; for the fourth year in a row; by 1¼ lengths; over a four-mile course; on the Thames at New London. This week the victorious oarsmen sail for England to compete in the Royal Henley Regatta on London's Thames...
...eight will use the same shell in which they won at Henley. The shell is known as No. 15, and has recently been used by the Harvard 150-pound crew...