Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunny Austin of England, playing in flannel shorts and white socks, beat Keith Gledhill in three sets. Vivian McGrath of Australia who holds his racket with both hands for backhands, surprised his Davis Cup teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well...
First British subject to win at Wimble don since Gerald Patterson in 1922, Craw ford last week clearly made himself the tennis player of the year. His victory over Vines was only a little more alarming, from the point of view of U. S. chances in the Davis Cup, than his defeat of Cochet in the French hard court championships a month ago. Red-faced, beefy, tireless and, except for the fact that his backhand is more defensive than a world-champion's should be. without a noticeable weakness on the court, he used to lose his matches with...
...finish of last week's tournament at St. Andrews was something of a jolt. Not one U. S. player but two were in first place. Moreover, they were golfers whom England had heard very little about and seen only in losing matches on the U. S. Ryder Cup team. In the U. S. their names were more familiar. One was blond Craig Wood, professional at the Hollywood Golf Club of Deal, N. J., a phlegmatic, long-driving golfer who took up the game after he had been a crack speedskater at Lake Placid, N. Y. Last year Wood earned...
...morning. At the 33rd, he was still five strokes behind. Shute, his long iron shots travelling to the greens as though they were on wires, ran off the last three holes in par, finished with 149 to Wood's 154. Said he when he received the championship Cup from the Earl of Lindsay: "I'm still too excited to think but I'm tickled to death...
...Stephenson's big sloop, Velsheda, with which he may challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games...