Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 25 of the nation's top-notch contract bridge teams sat down in Manhattan's Shelton Hotel last week to fight for the most prized team-of-four trophy in their sport, the Vanderbilt Cup, favorites to win were the famed Four Aces and a team led by Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, the cup donor. The Four Aces had won this annual event four times; Vanderbilt's team had won once, been runner-up to the Aces twice. Ace Oswald Jacoby was so confident that in the first round he bet $100 to $10 against...
Harvard's Big Berthas went right to work in the first, and knocked Nassau ace Lefty Farber out of the box with a three hit barrage...
...Ace Cordingly, Bob Craves, Henry Thompson, and Lon Roowar won their individual matches while foursome wins were chalked up by Graves and Cordingly, 7 and 6, and by Roowar and Dickermen...
...Ace hurler Tom Healey will too the rubber for the Crimson, and will probably share mound duties with Slim Curtiss. Both pitchers are fresh from Eastern League triumphs, and have had far more opportunity to approach mid-season form than the ice-bound Terrier flingers...
Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Ace Cordingly, and Bob Graves were the singles winners for the Crimson, while the Barr-Thompson and the Graves Cordingly duos won the best ball matches from the Redmen...