Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
Last Spring, John Vanryn, Princeton senior, sat pleasantly near the top of the world of U. S. tennis. He was sixth ranking player in the country. Educators, thoughtful parents had applauded with enthusiasm his decision to take his college degree rather than a good chance for the Davis Cup Team. The degree assured, Student Vanryn went to the Merion Cricket Club (Haverford, Pa.) seeded player in the Intercollegiates...
...This brought him a prize of $1,500. The prize for winning the open is $500, a gold medal and a cup...
...Lenglen, though she takes money for playing, still plays well; and "singles," for no matter what Miss Wills may do when she is by herself on one side of a net she has never been very brilliant when there was anyone to help her. Last week in the Wightman Cup matches at Wimbledon Miss Wills demonstrated once more the need for these defining terms. In the singles she beat Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett; little Helen Jacobs put out Betty Nuthall, but both Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett beat skinny, brown-faced Molla Mallory, who was once unbeatable. Everything depended...
...with George Oliver May, wealthy Manhattan accountant, last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray...