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August 28, 1961
BOATING—In Europe's sequel to the Miami-Nassau powerboat race—156 miles from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Torquay—British auto racing driver TOMMY SOPWITH (son of America's Cup challenger T.O.M. Sopwith, who nearly defeated the U.S.'s Rainbow in 1934 with his Endeavour) skippered a 25-foot Ray Hunt Thunderbolt over a driving, wind-churned English Channel to finish 20 minutes ahead of Jim Wynne of Miami. Favorite Dick Bertram's Moppie limped back into port an hour after the start with a burnt-out clutch.
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August 28, 1961

A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

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WATER SKIING—HENRY V. HOLMES of West Palm Beach. Fla, scored 2,583 points in tricks, slalom and jumping to win the men's senior over-all title at the national championships in Austin, Texas. It was the youngsters, however, who set the records.

Vicki Van Hook, 17, of Long Beach. Calif. won the girls' over-all title; TERRI SHRADER, 12, of Omaha, jumped 65 feet to break the world record for junior girls by three feet: and JOHN WIEGERT, 13, of Cypress Gardens, Fla. flew 78 feet to equal his national record for junior boys.

MILEPOSTS—DIED: FRANK EDDOLLS, 40, former hockey player for Montreal and New York and for the last six years coach of the Buffalo Bisons, of a heart attack, on a golf course in Ridgeway, Ont. Last season Eddolls was named American League Coach of the Year.

DIED: HARRY WILLIAM BALOGH, 70, colorful, debonair and often redundant boxing announcer who flourished in the 1930s and 40s, in New York (see page 8).

DIED: WILLIE MacFARLANE, 72, Scottish-born golfer who astounded the sporting world in 1925 by upsetting Bobby Jones in the National Open, of a heart attack, in Miami. MacFarlane tied Jones at 291 after 72 holes of the National at the Worcester (Mass.) CC. In an 18-hole playoff he again tied Jones with a 75; in their second playoff he beat Jones by one stroke, 72 to 73.

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