Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the first match in the Davis Cup finals between Germany and the U. S., a clumsy waiter delighted the crowd in Roland Garros Stadium. Paris, last week. He fell over some chairs in the grandstand, noisily spilled a tray of orangeade. The crowd, largely composed of Parisian Germans and Parisian Frenchmen who wanted Germany to win because it might make it easier for France in the challenge round, was delighted also by the next thing that happened. Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a handsome stocky young German, beat tall, rangy, raven-haired Francis Xavier Shields of New York...
...victory over Germany set the stage for a Davis Cup challenge round in which the U. S. had a better chance than it has had since 1927, when Cochet. La Coste and Borotra beat William Tatem Tilden II, his dear friend Francis Hunter and William Johnston. Even supposing that Cochet was as good as ever, of which no body who saw him lose in Wimbledon's second round could be quite sure, the rest of the team was almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year...
...German Davis Cup team (Daniel Prenn, Gottfried von Cramm, G. Jaenecke): the European zone final, for the right to play the U. S.; 5 matches to 0, against Italy; at Milan...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Equipoise: his seventh race in a row, the Arlington Cup, at Chicago, in which Mate and Gusto were the only other horses entered: at odds of 1 to 4, by four lengths, with Gusto second...
...German Davis Cup team (Daniel Prenn, Gottfried von Cramm, Walter Dessart): European zone semi-finals against England; 3 matches to 2; at Berlin...