Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 the trials for the Carroll Cup races were held over the three-quarter mile course. George L. Scott '34, a former holder of the cup, turned in the best time with 4.55 to win his heat. Paul C. Reardon '32, also a former champion, covered the distance in 5.05 to come out ahead in his heat. The other trials went to Frederick H. White ocC., in 5.17, Hamilton Richards '36 in 5.27, and Arthur V. Meigs in 5.07. The finals will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock over a mile course...
...Freshman crew defeated the Seniors in the Beacon Cup Regatta Yesterday. The Freshmen covered the mile and seven-eighths course in 10 minutes and four seconds. With the Seniors a length and a quarter behind...
Vice-President Lowes, Dean Leighton, and Athletic Director Bingham have expressed their approval of the Cup. It was decided last night that Dean Leighton and Bingham will choose the winner, who will receive a picture of the trophy on which his name will be inscribed...
...Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then turned to the microphone, urged everybody to come to Kentucky on Labor Day to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of that great Kentuckian, that great friend of horses, "Dan'l Boone...
...Robert M. Thompson Trophy. In the summer of 1920 at Antwerp, the British Olympic fencing team and the U. S. team sat down to dinner. Over wine, one of the Britons observed that such pleasant company should get together oftener, suggested that if the Yankees would put up a cup or something the British would go over and take it away from them. Col. Robert Means Thompson, longtime executive of the American Olympic Committee and rich Annapolis graduate for whose Thompson Cup the U. S. Military and Naval Academies used to contest at football, agreed to furnish the prize. Last...