Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were only five horses in the race and Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Equipoise, the 1 to 5 favorite, had beaten most of them before. So there was not a great deal of betting on the Hawthorne Gold Cup Race at Cicero, Ill.., last week. Nonetheless, because victory would make Equipoise the fourth largest money-winning horse in the U. S. track history, the crowd at Hawthorne-which has failed to attract its share of Chicago's visitors this summer because of Cicero's unsavory Capone reputation-was larger than usual. At the post Equipoise, instead...
...field with more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final...
...father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played in his first tournament. Two years later, in the Australian Junior Championship, he beat a member of the Australian Davis Cup team, on which he played in 1928. In 1930 he married Marjorie Cox, famed Australian girl tennist, with whom he had won most of Australia's mixed doubles titles. Since 1931 his game has improved steadily but so slowly that by 1933 even England's Queen Mary...
...Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour that gave Crawford and his confreres a chance to play at home against Vines, Gledhill. Van Ryn and Allison last winter. As good-humored as Brookes is taciturn, Crawford commented chipperly when Editor Wallis Merrihew of American Lawn Tennis asked...
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings...