Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
...Ranger has been selected to defend the America's Cup...
...Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last fall ordered a defender built for himself alone...
...must have good reason to expect the new boat to be a marked improvement. Rainbow's main fault was bad balance which kept her owner busy experimenting with ballast in 1934, but correcting this was not the only aim of the new venture. Trend in America's Cup boats since 1930 has been to build up to the limit of waterline length allowed by Class J specifications. When Rainbow (82 ft.) proved faster than Vanderbilt's 1930 Enterprise (So ft.), it suggested that an even longer boat might be even faster. When Owner Sopwith, reasoning the same...
...German Davis Cup tennis team, headed by Baron Gottfried von Cramm, this year's runner-up at Wimbledon: the European Zone final matches against Czechoslovakia's team; in Berlin. Germany this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender, in the challenge round. C. Elroy Robinson, of San Francisco's Olympic Club: the half-mile run at the World Labor Athletic Carnival on Randalls Island, N. Y.; in 1 min. 49.6 sec., breaking Ben Eastman's accepted world's record...