Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Dawson, chubby-cheeked 26-year-old Chicagoan, played the best U. S. golf and until the semifinals, where he met and was defeated by Scottish Golfer John Norton Smith, seemed likely to win the cup. The Dawson golf, like the Dawson face, resembles that of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Golfer Dawson has learned a wisdom few able amateurs achieve: to prefer a safe four to a perilous three. But Golfer Dawson was troubled less last week by fours than by fives, sixes, and once a seven. Nevertheless during the last nine of the semi-finals he found himself...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis Cup...
...between the two countries. Those who have ridiculed the alleged advantages of such contests from this point of view would do well to exclude from their lists the Oxford-Cambridge invasion. There is nothing quite like it in the athletic relations of the two countries. This is no Ryder Cup team bent only on victory...
France?Cochet, Lacoste, Brugnon, Borotra, Boussus, four of whom are calculated to defend and retain the Davis Cup...
...William Tatem Tilden II, who said last week in Liberty that after 1929 he would play no more international tennis ; Helen Wills, who made no such statement; Francis T. Hunter, Junior Coen. Other U. S. players of high calibre were engaged in a Davis Cup preliminary at Washington...