Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech for there was no Blue Ribbon. Why not, thought Harold Hales, supply a real prize for transatlantic liners to contest for? It took 40 years to save up the money but last week, in the suburban London villa he calls Selahdale, he had a real $4,000 cup called the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy, was ready to award it. Sighed he: "The only thing that really worried me was that someone else with more money might get in ahead of me. The Haleses never amounted to much before...
...trouble was that Mr. Hales offered his Trophy to Italy's transatlantic recordholder, Rex, before he was ready to deliver it. The Italian Line naturally accepted it and then last month, France's Normandie broke the Rex's record. But it was Harold Hales's cup and, as umpire, he could make the rules. Rule No. 1: The Trophy shall be held by each winner for at least three months...
...beat China, Mexico and Brazil (by default). Germany beat Italy, Australia and Czechoslovakia. Last week at Wimbledon they met in the Davis Cup interzone final to see which would play England in the challenge round...
...week's round was largely concentrated on shambling, freckled, redhaired, 20-year-old Donald Budge of Oakland. Calif. When he went East for the first time last summer and put Bryan Grant out of the National Singles Championship. Budge was asked whether he hoped to make the Davis Cup team. Said he: "I'd be lucky to get on the Canary Island team. ... I'd rather play basketball than tennis anyway. . . ." Invited to go abroad mainly for the experience, he promptly distinguished himself by reaching the semi-finals of the Wimbledon championship. He was given Sidney Wood...
...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...