Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year there have been transatlantic whispers of a new challenge for the America's Cup, the international trophy held by U. S. yachtsmen since 1851 despite all that the late Sir Thomas Lipton could do about it. Last week the whispers gathered into a sharp, clear challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron. The source was remarkable inasmuch as the Royal Yacht Squadron, world's swankest yachting organization, had had no dealings with the U. S. since 1895 when the Earl of Dunraven sailed home in a rage, charging sharp practice by the America...
...Shamrocks. Velsheda was rigged according to the new international rules which provide that racing craft may have light duralumin masts but must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will call her Endeavor and, contrary to British custom, in Cup challenges, he may take the helm himself...
...York Yacht Club, which holds the homely $500 flagon won by America 82 years ago, received news of the Sopwith challenge with its usual studied calm. Officials would say nothing until the formal challenge should arrive by mail. Then the procedure would be appointment of a cup committee, the issuance of invitations to individual members or syndicates of members to build defense candidates. Of the three yachts engaged in the defense against Shamrock V in 1930 only Weetamoe is in commission. She was bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules...
From Dartmouth comes news of a significant internal struggle. The inter-fraternity council there has decreed that none of its members may enter an athletic contest with the Bema, a newly organized club, not a fraternity, nor shall the latter be allowed to compete for a certain loving cup bought by the inter-fraternity council. If the Bema feels disposed to have a cup, it must purchase...
...Seymour ("Shorty") Knox's open championship Aurora polo team: the Monty Waterbury Memorial Cup. from "Jock" Whitney's Greentrees, 12-to-9; at Meadow Brook Club, Westbury...