Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
...spectacle that promised to be as dramatic as the one 25 years ago. In the stands at the Merion Cricket Club at Haverford, Pa., grave-faced tennis fans gathered for the opening matches of the threeday, best-of-five series, wondered if this was to be the last Davis Cup contest they would ever see. German troops were already slogging through Poland, another World War was only a few hours away...
...Australians were 3-to-1 favorites to regain the Cup they had lost in 1920. Ambidextrous, 20-year-old John Bromwich (Australia's top-ranking player) and stocky, 26-year-old Adrian K. Quist (Australia's No. 2) have been considered the world's best amateur tennists since California's Donald Budge turned professional last winter and Germany's Baron von Cramm retired to the sidelines...
...team of U. S. women tennists: the annual matches for the Wightman Cup, for the ninth year in a row; defeating a team of Britons; five matches to two; at Forest Hills, N. Y. It was the 13th U. S. victory since the cup...
...Henley Royal Regatta. The varsity easily led London Rowing Club, Jesus College of Cambridge and Argonauts Rowing Club of Toronto in successive heats to win the great silver mug exactly 25 years after a Harvard junior varsity eight captained by Governor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, had captured the old cup...