Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trying to win the Davis Cup for the last four years has meant eventually trying to beat the top British tennists. This year, with England's Fred Perry turned professional, experts figured that the Davis Cup final would really be the interzone matches between the U. S. and Germany. Soon as the draw was announced last week, experts alsc knew that the U. S. and Germany would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned...
...holy home of golf, but 30 miles up the coast, where the wind blows just as hard over a rolling sea of dunes, heather and beach grass, lies the longest, toughest championship course in Scotland, 7,200-yd. Carnoustie. Thither from their triumph over Great Britain's Ryder Cup team (TIME, July 12) last week went the ablest U. S. Ryder Cup squad in years, vowing to wrest from the British their Open championship, exclusively U. S. property from...
...fine weather Carnoustie and the nearby Burnside course, over which the qualifying rounds were played, are no harder going than any seaside course with tight fairways and pit-pocked greens. Horton Smith of Missouri, whom a slump had kept out of the Ryder Cup play, stroked out two smooth 695 to win the medal...
...Sandwich then he shot the first round in 67 to tie Walter Hagen's record for the Open. On the following round he shot a 65, seven under par, the maddest pace ever set in national championship golf. He refused to play on the Ryder Cup team in 1931 because rules forbade him to barnstorm the U. S. independently after the matches. In 1933 he was ineligible because he was a nonresident, employed at the Waterloo Club at Brussels. Last winter when he returned to England to become professional at the Ashridge Club near Berkhamsted, he became eligible...
...told them that was exactly why the Journal had published the editorial [article], and that in the next issue there would be another for those women who might have missed his first." Then Mr. Bok dropped the whole subject, but kept on crusading against the public drinking cup and the common towel...