Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they neared the turning buoy, rounded it almost three minutes ahead. Coming back before the wind, both boats broke out parachute spinnakers, took them in when the breeze, scarcely enough to ripple the surface of the groundswell, backed up to the north. Time limit for America's Cup races is five-and-a-half hours. Five-and-a-half hours after the start Rainbow was barely half a mile from the finish line, with Endeavour a mile astern. The Committee boat gave the signal-dropping a red ball-that meant "No Contest...
When the U. S. Davis Cup team was selected for European play last June the country's second ranking player, Wilmer Lawson Allison Jr. of Austin, Tex., was not on it. Later in the month Allison was asked to join the team in England. When he got there, he was told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat huge, handsome Lester Stoefen...
...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...
...English newspapers have their own little idiosyncrasies, prominent among which is the universal method of reporting an accident: "Unfortunate incident at Tooting," and last week's "Unfortunate incident in the Cup races" became, with the publication of the race committee's decision, what may be the yachting cause celebre of the next few years...
...seems certain that the decision will raise a storm of protest in England, and if Rainbow keeps the Cup, the course of future challenges maybe doubtful. The rigid attention to rules and the disallowing of the protest because the flag was not raised "soon enough," may seen machiavellian to some, but to many it will seem, while regrettable, a reason for relaxation of the rules of yachting, not enough to spoil "the sport of kings," but merely so as to relax such minor and apparently troublesome points...