AP Sportlight

AP Sportlight
Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA
June 13
1935 -- Jim Braddock scores a 15-round unanimous decision over Max Baer in New York to win the world heavyweight title.
1953 -- Ben Hogan wins the U.S. Open for the fourth time, with a six-stroke victory over Sam Snead.
1959 -- Billy Casper wins the U.S. Open golf tournament over Bob Rosburg.
1971 -- Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA championship by four strokes over Kathy Ahern.
1982 -- Jan Stephenson wins the LPGA championship with a two-stroke triumph over Joanne Carner.
1991 -- The National, the nation's first all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication.
1992 -- Sergei Bubka of Ukraine breaks his own world outdoor record in the pole vault by soaring 20 feet, one-half inch. The jump is the 30th time that Bubka has set the record indoors or outdoors, surpassing the 29 world records by distance runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland in the 1920s.
1993 -- Patty Sheehan wins the LPGA Championship for a third time, with a 2-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over Lauri Merten.
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