Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor-league professional teams. Comparable to baseball's two major leagues are the four divisions (22 teams each) of England's Football League. Like baseball's pennant winners are the top-ranking teams of each division. Faintly comparable to the World Series are the Football Association Cup* games, which are sandwiched in throughout the eight-month season, come to a grand climax with the Cup Final at mammoth Wembley Stadium the last week in April...
...Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
Last week when 300 table tennists from 16 nations met in London to play for singles and doubles world championships as well as the Swaythling Cup and the Corbillon Cup (for women), Hungary had plenty of competition. The U. S., which had taken the Swaythling Cup last year, turned out to be not much of a bogey, but not so the Czechs. A pair of them; won the women's doubles, a team of Czechs took the Corbillon Cup, and a single Czech, Bohumil Vana, eliminated Viktor Barna, the great Hungarian paddler, in the semi-finals and Defending Champion...
Ever since 1907, when Australia startled both hemispheres by taking the Davis Cup from the British Isles, tennists from Down Under have ranked with the top-notchers of the world and their national championships have increased in importance until they are now included, along with those of France, England and the U. S., in the Big Four of international tennis events...
South Australian) this season. Budge took just three sets to turn out a carbon copy of what he had done the previous month in the Victoria championship (fourth major state championship): beat Australia's No. i hope for this year's Davis Cup recovery...