Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event of U. S. motorboat racing, in years when no one challenges Gar Wood for the Harmsworth Trophy, is the race for the Gold Cup in which specifications, changed from year to year, place definite limits on the size and power of competing craft. Put up in 1904, the Gold Cup cost $730, is gold plate on silver. Experts estimate that motorboat enthusiasts have spent $40,000,000 trying to win it. Last week, on Lake George, N. Y., five long-nosed hydroplanes zoomed over the dark green water getting ready for the start. On the eve of the race...
...Lagarto ("The Lizard") was built in 1922. That made her, compared to her rivals last week, a specimen of early Americana but antiquity is not El Lagarto's only distinction. For her first owner, Ed Grimm, who called her Miss Mary, El Lagarto performed miserably in the Gold Cup races of 1923 and 1924. Mr. Reis (pronounced "Rice"), who wanted a fast runabout for his Lake George summer home, bought her in 1925, renamed her for the reptile which he considers so lucky that he uses a large stuffed one with a hole in its back on his library...
Improving with age, El Lagarto won the Gold Cup at Detroit in 1933 with a heat record of 60.866 m. p. h. and then went on to win the two other major motorboat races of that year. Last year on Lake George, where, by the conditions of the race which gives the holder of the Cup the right to name the course, Driver Reis had the race run, she had a close call before she beat Delphine IV. Last month Driver Reis installed a new Miller motor. A few days before the race, a broken connecting rod turned this into...
...Wimbledon last week, Joseph W. Wear, banker, court tennist and non-playing captain of the U. S. Davis Cup team, was up against a tough question. The U. S. team had just managed to beat Germany in the interzone final (TIME, July 29). In the doubles, after match point had been called against them five times, Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn had nosed out Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Kay Lund in five long sets. Next day, Allison had, as expected, won his singles match against Heiner Henkel and Donald Budge had amazingly defeated von Cramm. This gave...
...taken for granted. That left Allison and Sidney Wood eligible for the other singles position. Since U. S. chances seemed to depend on winning both singles matches against England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison is a dependable, aggressive player who, though he loses most of his important matches, always works hard and makes his opponent do likewise. If he chose Allison...