Word: cupfuls
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Named for Dr. K.T. Compton, honorary alumnus of Harvard, former head of the Physics department at Princeton and now president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trophy cup of old English gilt silver is being given by the student body of Technology for perpetual competition between Harvard, Princeton, and M.I.T. in a crew race to be held each spring...
Culminating two years of endeavor to establish this race as a permanent event in the rowing calender, the new cup will be placed in competition for the first time this Spring when the race will be held on the Charles on April 29th. The sup will be presented to President Compton by the president of the Technology student body the night before the event, and he will personally present it to the winning crew the following afternoon. In addition to the cup, there will be a complement of some form on which will be recorded the particulars of each race...
...Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military Sweepstakes. As a 4-year-old-the bones of Irish horses develop early, thanks to limestone in their native soil-Shannon Power (named after a power-house on the Shannon river) won the Davis Cup at Toronto last year, starred in other international contests. His rider, small curly-haired Captain Daniel J. Corry of the Irish Free State Army, takes special pride in his own jumping pony. First Attempt, a little grey gelding who caught cold in Boston last month, spent most of last week...
...While the Vanderbilt Cup tournament was in progress last week, the Whist Club's Committee on Laws announced a new international code for contract which contains five major changes in scoring and a change in the penalty for revoking...
...steamer reached Manhattan he had seen a radio despatch from Paris relating that Clifford Burke Harmon had offered to renew the Bennett Trophy for international ballooning which the U. S. had just won permanently. The original endowment by the late Publisher fames Gordon Bennett provided only the first cup in 1906. Not for 18 years did any nation score the three consecutive victories necessary for permanent possession. Then Belgium won it. The Aëro Club Royale de Belgique posted the second-cup which stood only until 1928, fell to the U. S. In return for Belgium's courtesy...