Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appalling moment last week, William Lawson Little Jr. stood on the golf course at St. Anne's-on-the-Sea and watched his opponent in the final of the British Amateur Championship putt on the last green. If the ball went into the cup, it meant that their match was all even. If it stayed out, it meant that Little had done what only one golfer, Harold Hilton in 1900 and 1901, had done in this century: won the British Amateur two years in a row. In those protracted seconds while the ball was rolling smoothly toward the cup...
...creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even. On the 34th Little was two up again, but Dr. Tweddell won the 35th. On the 36th. Little sliced his drive, made a magnificent 100-yd. iron recovery and putted his third shot to the lip of the cup. This left Dr. Tweddell, on in two but 25 feet from the pin, one more chance to keep the match alive...
...crowd of 10,000, convinced that Little is as great a golfer as Jones, whose portrait hangs in the St. Anne's clubhouse, watched the ball rolling, more and more slowly now, straight toward the cup. Instead of going in, it slipped irrevocably past. Dr. Tweddell walked across the green, tapped Little's ball to concede the match and grinned as he shook hands...
...King's Plate by two fillies named Sally Fuller and Gay Sympathy. A few minutes later, when Sally Fuller had won by three lengths, with Chickpen second and Gay Sympathy third, he stepped up to the judges' stand where Lady Bessborough handed him his prizes: a silver cup, 50 guineas from King George...
...race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten Cornell and Columbia. The regatta, in which a Harvard shell was also entered, climaxed the season of sprint races in the East. Because the Washington Sophomores who nosed out California by 2 yd. (TIME, April 22) at the start of the season have lately been...