Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became coach at Tulane. Since then he has acquired an elaborate methodology, a Persian cat named Baron Kimura, such prestige that the Davis Cup team last spring wired him: "We wish there was some way of taking you with us we feel this would give us at least 20 per cent better chance of winning. . . ." Some Beasleyisms...
Never in the history of motorboat races for the Harmsworth Cup (put up by the late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled...
...about last year's incident. More interesting was the fact that in the hull of Miss England III repowered for this year's races, were two 2,200-h. p. Rolls-Royce motors of the lightweight supercharged type which the British Air Ministry developed for its Schneider Cup-winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell had in his Blue Bird automobile when he set the land speed record last winter. Gar Wood, defending the trophy which the U. S. has held since 1907, had no government aid, no rich backer like Kaye Don's oil tycoon, Lord...
Last week's crowd caught its first glimpse of "Pop" Cleveland greeting each woman pilot in the Cord Cup Race with an enormous hug & kiss. Fifty-nine planes had set out from Washington and Los Angeles a week earlier, their paths converging at Bartlesville, Okla. into a home stretch to Cleveland. As it was scored by lap-points, everyone knew when the racers reached Cincinnati that Roy Hunt of Oklahoma would win in his slow Great Lakes Trainer...
...Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. The match put them in the semi-finals against Ellsworth Vines & Keith Gledhill, Vines's best friend who he thinks should have been on the Davis Cup team. The other semifinalists were George Lott Jr. & Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament comes in the semi-finals and it happened last week, when Van Ryn & Allison played Lott & Shields...