Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the Davis Cup, the trophy which Mrs. George W. Wightman put up for women's international play in 1923 has been won by the U. S. regularly since 1931 in team matches against England. Last week, at Forest Hills, however, the U. S. Wightman Cup team had a few anxious moments. With Helen Wills Moody through with tennis for the season, England's pretty 21-year-old Katherine Stammers wore out husky Helen Jacobs, 5-7, 6-1. 9-7. Then demure little Dorothy Round mopped up the court with tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold who has been...
Artist Beale put down his cup, scratched his chin...
...will receive nearly $200,000. Timken Roller Bearing is essentially a family business and the Timkens are a tight-lipped family. The company was founded as a carriage works in the last century by Henry Timken, onetime blacksmith. Founder Timken thought carriages dull the moment he began experimenting with cup and cone ball bearings. His enthusiasm infected his two sons when the huge possibilities of the automobile bearing market opened up around 1900. Henry Holiday and William Timken promptly abandoned Timken Carriage Works for Timken Roller Bearing...
Whatever remote chance the U. S. had to win the Davis Cup thereafter disappeared with surprising promptness. Later that same afternoon, Perry beat Budge, 6-0, 6-8, 6-3, 6-4. Two days later, the supposedly unbeatable U. S. doubles team, possibly weakened by the effects on Allison of his match with Austin, came out to play George Patrick Hughes and stocky young Charles Raymond Davys Tuckey, making his first appearance in a Davis Cup match. Instead of winning in three sets as anticipated, Allison & Van Ryn lost in five...
...Davis Cup, an elaborate silver bowl and tray, is now so completely covered with names of winners that where to put this year's will be a puzzle. It was put up for competition in 1900 by onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis. Last week, Dwight Davis Jr., the donor's son, was beaten 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 by an unseeded player named Frederic Gaskell in the quarter finals of the Suffolk County, N. Y., singles championship...