Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennist to do such a thing was so unthinkable that tennis experts, instead of trying to explain it, simply regarded McGrath as an antipodean freak. Last week this point of view was confirmed when in Mexico City an Australian team played Mexico in the first round of the Davis Cup tournament. On the team was another Australian who held his racket with both hands...
...hands (see cut). Like 21-year-old McGrath, Bromwich is not only a freak but a prodigy. He was just 16 when he won the South Australian championship two years ago, beating Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull, seasoned Australian internationalists. In Mexico City last week Bromwich's Davis Cup debut was a severe thrashing for Mexico's Esteban Reyes, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5. Four other victories, in which his teammates (McGrath, Quist, Crawford) lost only one set, put Australia in the second round, five matches to none...
With England's Fred Perry retired from amateur tennis, the outcome of this year's Davis Cup Tournament, of which the interzone final starts at Wimbledon July 17, followed by the challenge round July 24, is considered a toss-up between England, Australia, Germany and the U. S. Australia is a slight favorite. Last week, in five other Davis Cup matches scattered all over the world, the tournament got off to a flying start. Results...
...Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn to replace Charles Whiteside whose crews, though they beat Yale four times out of seven in four-mile races at New London, did poorly in shorter races. The event was the one and three quarter mile varsity race in the Compton Cup Regatta, on Princeton's Lake Carnegie...
...Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and onetime Princeton physics professor, the Compton Cup for the first four years was won regularly by Princeton. Last week this embarrassing situation ended when Harvard's varsity boat, smoothly stroked by Jim Chace, slipped across the finish line a length ahead of Princeton and five ahead...