Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals was also the only Englishman in the tournament, Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets and breaking two rackets with a smash that is now considered the fastest shot in U. S. amateur tennis...
...boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...Twenty Grand, 3-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Cup, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., beating Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind...
Plans for the Schneider Cup Races at Calshot, England, were complete, down to a regulation which prohibited small boys from flying kites in the vicinity of the course above the Solent. Then there occurred, last week, the culminating blow in a series of misfortunes which had led up to this year's contest. Italy and France, the two nations who were to challenge England's possession of the Cup, announced that they would be unable to participate in the races unless they were postponed for six months. Both gave as reasons bad weather, ill luck and loss...
...total collapse of the Schneider Cup Races was a disappointment to everyone concerned, it was particularly disappointing to the eccentric elderly lady who is reputed to be the richest woman in England, Lady Houston, widow of the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston. When Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald last winter announced that England did not have enough money to enter a team to defend the Schneider Trophy, Lady Houston found the situation unbearable. Although she had been enraged when the Government demanded an $8,000,000 inheritance tax on her husband's estate, she swallowed her pride and said...