Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lanky Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, this year has been anything but happy. Beaten at Wimbledon, beaten in Davis Cup play, beaten out of his U. S. championship at Forest Hills, beaten in the Pacific Southwest tournament at Los Angeles last fortnight, he talked so carelessly about turning professional that the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association felt called upon to investigate. He was cleared, but last week he had fresh troubles when the Associated Press held him up to view as a turnquote...
Fortnight ago the AP carried a story by Sports Editor George Carens of the Boston Transcript. It quoted Vines on the Davis Cup team and its non-playing leaders, Bernon S. Prentice and famed Coach Mercer Beasley, as follows...
...last chukker but Greentree's rally came too late. When the game was over, 14 to 11, Mrs. Seymour Knox presented the championship trophies to her husband and his teammates; to Strumma, the chestnut pony that had carried Knox through three chukkers went the Prince Friarstown Cup, annually awarded to the best breeding mare used in the tournament...
...George C. Reis of Lake George, N. Y. in his 11-year-old hydroplane El Lagarto: the President's Cup race, with 1,161 points to 1,122 for Horace E. Dodge's Delphine VII. First craft to win the President's Cup twice, El Lagarto made a clean sweep of this year's important races of her class, including the National Sweepstakes at Red Bank, N. J., the Gold Cup at Detroit...
...year to make two full crews, Coach Ed Brown announced yesterday. As a result there will be only very informal rowing this fall, no single House having enough to compete as a unit. House crews never appear in their full strength until spring, however. Last May in the Agassiz Cup race Winthrop House crew won from a field consisting of Dunster, Eliot, and a combination crew. This Winthrop House crew lost to a Yale class crew in the final race of the season last June. Yale house crews may be organized by this year...