Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longest Davis Cup challenge-round singles set on record is the 17-15 one which red-haired Maurice McLoughlin won from Norman Brookes in 1914. Last week at Wimbledon, when another red-haired Californian, Donald Budge, played husky Charles Edgar Hare of England in the 1937 Davis Cup challenge round, the games seesawed with service up to 13-all before Budge finally broke through to win. What made the set more remarkable was that Hare, England's No. 2, had been considered barely able enough to make Budge stretch his long legs. Even when Budge ran out the next...
...alarm was some-what allayed when Budge & Gene Mako beat F. H. D. Wilde & C. R. D. Tuckey, 6-3, 7-5, 7-9. 12-10. That left Budge and Parker the job of winning between them at least one of the last two singles matches to clinch the Cup...
They did better by winning both, clinching the Cup by 4 matches to 1. Parker, playing some of the surest tennis of his career, almost blasted Hare, wildly smashing and volleying, off the court (6-2, 6-4, 6-2). In what then amounted to an exhibition match, Donald Budge easily outplayed Bunny Austin (8-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3). Thus the Cup put up in 1900 by Dwight Filley Davis was returned to the U. S., for the first time since 1926, by the youngest U. S. Cup team in history...
...good rule for young professional golfers is never to make disparaging remarks about opponents. Another is not to make disparaging remarks about anyone in the presence of reporters. Last week several young golfers returning from last month's Ryder Cup matches in England (TIME, July 12) disregarded both rules. Loudest in their disparagement of both the Ryder Cup matches which Great Britain lost and the British Open Championship at Carnoustie which England's Henry Cotton won, were brash young...
...England, where the disgruntled statements of the U. S. Rydermen were reported even more sensationally than in the U. S., they were indignantly denied by the British professionals. Said Ryder Cup Captain Charles Whitcombe: "They were treated like our own fellows ... no hostility was shown them. It never is in this country...