Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
Trials. Most interesting to the committee was Harold S. Vanderbilt's brand new Rainbow. In the first race. Rainbow ghosted around a 17-mile course nearly three minutes ahead of Frederick H. Prince's Weetamoe. Gerard B. Lambert's old bronze Vanitie, built for the 1914 Cup races, which the War cancelled, came in far behind. Next day. Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there...
Contenders. Racing for the America's Cup cost approximately $1,000,000 an hour in 1930. Rainbow is considered by Harold Vanderbilt an economy boat. Using some of the equipment of Enterprise, the Cup defender which beat the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in 1930, she cost only $5,000,000. Rainbow was built in 97 working days at the Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. where Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, now 85 and retired, had designed and built five successful defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails...
Lawson Little, the Stanford junior, is a member of Chi Psi and not Chi Phi as you reported it. This mistake is of interest to the outside world only when coupled with the fact that another Walker Cup youth, Johnny Fischer, is a Chi Psi from Michigan, and when the two are paired with Rodney Bliss, Chi Psi, Cornell '33, you have three of America's best golfers...
...Wightman Cup tennists (Helen Jacobs. Sarah Palfrey, Carolin Babcock, Josephine Cruickshank): 5 matches to 2, their series against England, for the fourth successive year; at Wimbledon. ¶Cavalcade, ridden by Mack Garner: the Detroit Derby, his fourth important stake race of the season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...