Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered 30 bagpiping contests during the last nine years, won 25 of them. Honors in caber-tossing (throwing forward in a half circle a log about the size of a small telegraph pole) went to an Armonk...
...years ago, British galleries jeered Cotton for not joining the Ryder Cup team the previous year because rules compelled him to travel with his teammates. Last week he rode on the shoulders of the crowd from the last green to the clubhouse. There he learned that Englishmen Brews and Padgham had finished second and third...
Weetamoe and Yankee, both contenders for defending the Cup in 1930, were remodelled to conform to this year's rules. Yankee, a heavy weather boat which holds the record for the 30-mile Cup course, had her bow sharpened to make her faster in light airs. Frank Paine, her designer, raised the money by subscription in Boston. Weetamoe had her keel weights deepened and moved forward to make her more seaworthy. The New York syndicate which owns Whirlwind, slowest of 1930's four contenders, did not recondition her this year. vanitie, under this year's rules...
Challenger. A new rule for the America's Cup races gives the challenger the right to change entry up to within 60 days of the first race, if trials produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks...
...Cup,worth $500, has been in Tiffany's Manhattan vaults since 1857, when it was presented to the New York Yacht Club by the owners of the little schooner America, which had won it in 1851. America, later called Camilla and Memphis, was used as a despatch boat in the Civil War, later sold for $5,000. In 1901 she was put in drydock at Boston. In 1921, she was presented to the U. S. navy. Now at Annapolis, America is the oldest of the 5,338 yachts listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts...