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...Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago...
...made another important piece of change in Western Air Express, which he helped to organize a few years later. Nowadays Bill Henry lives in a big, nondescript house in downtown Los Angeles, enjoys winning the family tennis championship at the country club with his wife, the former top-flight tennist, Corinne Stanton, and daughter Patsy (one of three), 1935 National Girls' Tennis Champion...
...Methodical Frankie Parker, fifth ranking tennist in the U.S.: the Spring Lake Invitation tournament; for the eighth time in its nine-year history; beating foxy, aggressive Wayne Sabin (2-6, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3) in the final; after a three-hour struggle; at the Bathing & Tennis Club, Spring Lake, N.J. A racquet-wielding robot on clay, who has a new model forehand each spring and trades it in every fall, Parker has been defeated only once in eight clay-court tournaments this year...
...Scampering Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, 28, fifth ranking woman tennist in the U.S.: the Middle States tennis championship; trouncing top-ranking Helen Jacobs in the final, 6-3, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia...
...York's Belmont 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...