Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week's quarter-finals at Melbourne, Vivian McGrath played Henry Ellsworth Vines...
...they squabbled about sand-wedges. Two years ago they were troubled by the balloon ball. Three weeks ago a new subject for contention arose when Gene Sarazen, British and U. S. Open champion, ill of influenza in a Santa Monica hospital, took it upon himself to suggest that the cups on putting greens be enlarged from 4¼ in. to 8 in. Reason: "A crack player and one just average are playing. The average player puts his ball on the green, say, 20 or 25 feet from the cup. The expert is closer, say, 12 to 15 feet. But each...
...last week, the notion of enlarging the cup had reached the status of an experiment, seemed a potential crusade. At Pinehurst, N. C. a group of golfers which included William C. Fownes Jr., onetime (1910) amateur champion and onetime (1926-27) president of the U. S. Golf Association, had tried 8-in. cups on a sand green. They thought it made putting too easy. The Pinehurst golfers then tried a 6-in. cup, planned a tournament to see if the members liked it. Eight-inch cups were installed at the Cavalier Country Club, Virginia Beach; Riviera Golf Course, Miami; Palmaceia...
...judging platform, the Pekes waddled briskly about on their stubby, bowed legs. To Pierrot of Hartle-bury, freshly brought from England by Mrs. Richard S. Quigley of Lock Haven, Pa., went the prize for best in show, which included the gigantic Lasca McClure Halley Trophy and the Challenge Cup donated by the late, great J. Pierpont Morgan...
...unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province and his army in giving Miss Davis a chance to prove the efficacy of Christian kindness, he humiliates her for her suspicions of him by the gallantry with which, instead of assaulting her, he sips a cup of poisoned tea. At the end of the picture, Miss Davis is on her way back to Shanghai but not, it appears, to marry her missionary...