Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aged 20, Gene Sarazen was so pleased that he carried the big championship cup everywhere he went and once, when the top fell off, had to jump out of a taxi to get it. Neat, slick, sunburned, Sarazen was just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play...
...Davis Cup team (Wilmer Allison, Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn): American interzone finals against Brazil, 5 matches to 0; at Forest Hills...
...University of Pennsylvania crew: the Childs Cup in a 1¾mi. race with Columbia and Princeton; on the Harlem River...
...Davis Cup tennis team: the North American Zone finals against Australia, five matches to zero; in Philadelphia. Brazil is the U. S.'s next opponent...
...schoolmaster in a dreary second-rate English school is the hero of this novel by the third of the novel-writing Gibbses. (Major Gibbs's older brothers are Sir Philip and Cosmo Hamilton.) A cup of cocoa made over a gas-jet late at night in his room, an occasional game of billiards at the Pig & Whistle and books hard scrimped for are Schoolmaster Philip Jocelyn's outlets until Millicent, slightly anemic niece of the local bookdealer, comes to help in her uncle's shop. Philip gets himself engaged to Millicent who at once takes brittle command...