Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curing of Mrs. Vanderbilt's crotchet and its consequences were easily last week's biggest sport news. One of the top sport events of 1937 will be the yacht races for the America's Cup, off Newport, starting July 31. For the past nine months, the America's Cup races have been a matter of formal correspondence, long-winded argument about rules, scale-drawings and fabulously costly boatbuilding. For the next three months all this will be replaced by sailing...
Even if Ranger had not lost her mast last week-which means that she will have to use a makeshift rig until July-it was by no means a certainty that she would be this year's Cup defender. The Cup races are preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts...
...second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field for third place. To War Admiral's owner went a prize of $52,050. Ill in Philadelphia, he was represented by Trainer Conway, who accepted the gold cup from Kentucky's Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler...
ANNAPOLIS, MD., May 12--With a Varsity boat devoid of Seniors, Navy's crew hopes for this season and next are high, for the smooth stroking Varsity is as yet undefeated and apparently Harvard is the only obstacle between it, and an undefeated sprint season. The Adams Cup Race on May 29th will therefore be the big race for the Blue and Gold, and the Middles are beginning a three weeks' training grind in anticipation of that race...
...Francisco, After a winter of bickering as to who would be the ablest partner for red-haired Donald Budge, U. S. No. 1, the U. S. Davis Cup Committee finally picked Frank Parker for No. 2 singles man, Gene Mako for Budge's doubles partner. Against Jiro Yamagishi, Japanese singles champion, Parker surprised everyone by winning the only match about which there was much doubt, 6-3, 2-6, 8-6, 6-1. His teammates handily won the other four, qualified to meet Australia in the American Zone final at Forest Hills...