Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After five days of play, Perry, Budge, Grant, Parker, Mangin, Wood and Riggs reached the fourth round safely. In the match to determine the quarter-finalists, however, Riggs had the misfortune to play John Van Ryn, onetime Davis Cup player. Unseeded and unranked because of insufficient play, Riggs was eliminated...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
...States Lawn Tennis Association had decided to do so again. For female tennists at least, last week's tournament might well have rated as the No. i event of the year. In it were entered four members of the team that last June defeated England in the Wightman Cup matches; the topnotch players of Japan and England; a group of youngsters better than any who could be assembled elsewhere in the world; and Helen Jacobs...
...imparting an enormously weighty secret to an annoyingly impatient world, the New York Yacht Club last week announced, in round official style, that it had received a challenge from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith to race for the America's Cup in the summer of 1937. What made the announcement a shade less than breathtaking, even to that microscopic minority of the sporting public which normally gets excited about the America's Cup, was that the news had been unofficially given out in England a month ago, rumored as early...
...William Woodward's three-year-old racehorse Granville: the Saratoga Cup. in which the only other entrant, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's famed five-year-old. Discovery, was the 2-to-5 favorite; by six lengths, on a muddy track; at Saratoga...