Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perry v. Allison- If Austin, England's No. 1 singles player, could outclass Vines, who blew him off the court in straight sets at Forest Hills last year, it was clear that the mysterious influence which Roland Garros seems to have on U. S. Davis Cup teams was still at work last week. In the next match, it became clearer still. Perry won the first set, as his teammate had done, 6-1. Allison made him work in the second and at 4-5 on his own serve pulled out a game that went to deuce eight times...
What small chance the U. S. team then had left to win the Davis Cup back from France in this week's challenge round, stayed alive for one more day. George Lott and John Van Ryn played magnificently against Perry and George Patrick Hughes. With Lett's service dominating the play, they won their match 8-6, 6-4, 6-1. The first of the two singles matches that followed, between Austin and Allison, was close and exciting but Austin, against an opponent who seemed worn and overtrained, had speed enough...
...going to put a code of fair competition on the newspapers? (Smiling) I hope I may be spared that cup...
...England's Davis Cup tennis team (Perry, Austin, Lee, Hughes): the European zone finals, by healing the Australian team 3-to-2 (Crawford, McGrath, Quist, Turnbull) at Wimbledon. England. This week in Paris the English team meets the U. S. team in the interzone finals. ¶Ben Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish...
...Henley-on-the-Thames, Connecticut's Kent School crew won the Thames Challenge Cup, by two lengths, in the final against the Bedford Rowing Club...