Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rounds, a dozen golfers were bunched in the lead all within four strokes of each other. Cooper, nicknamed "Light Horse Harry" because he plays without the exaggerated caution of most of his colleagues, made a 70 which was spectacular because it included an explosion shot that dropped into the cup at the 16th, a 45-ft. putt that did the same thing at the 17th. For his fourth round he had a shaky 73 which was still good enough to make his final score look solid. Dour-faced old Macdonald Smith, who tied with his brother for the Open...
Three days of racing for the McMillan Cup, under the suspires of the Pleon Yacht Club, last night found skippers and crews lined up against each other and ready for the gun from Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, Williams and Harvard...
...save time and. money, the 20-odd countries whose tennis teams challenge for the Davis Cup have been divided into two zones, North American and European. Winner of the American zone plays the winner of the European zone. Winner of this round plays the Cup holder-this year England-in the challenge round. Convenient for all concerned, this arrangement is especially handy for the one potent regular entrant which is in neither one zone nor the other, Australia. For the past three years Australia challenged in the European zone. This year well aware that, to win the Cup, their team...
...Davis Cup history for the past nine years has taken the form of prodigious ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from...
...Alternate Vivian McGrath would be sent to the court to play against Budge. Bundled out to face Budge himself after a 10 min. delay, he played listlessly, was trounced 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. But it was too late to matter, and U. S. excitement about the Davis Cup was over until...