Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawrence Stanley, Governor General of Canada in the early nineties, put up a cup to be held for a year by the hockey team that won the world's championship. After each series of games the cup is filled with champagne and each player on the winning team takes a drink out of it. It is a battered cup. It has been dropped in trains and automobiles; players have scratched their names on it with penknives. Last week in Montreal the Stanley Cup was once more filled and passed around and the team that drank...
...like the sails of a mill, threw himself backward and forward, stopped every shot except one-a game in which 21 penalties were given, Frank Boucher stabbed twice through the Maroon defense. No team representing an American city has won an important hockey trophy since Seattle took the Stanley Cup title in 1917. All the players on the Rangers are Canadians...
Friends clipped the reviews, carried them to a nursing home where lay Dramatist Moore, and piled the printed praise upon his lap. Dazed at first, he murmured, "My cup of bliss is full." Later the intoxication of success caused his Irish spirits to mount until he not only boasted of becoming "an idol of the English public" but added blatantly...
...gringo in question was Robert Kinsey, of U. S. birth, but a member of the Mexican Davis Cup Team. His play last week in the tennis matches against the U. S. was indifferent, almost sour. William Tatem Tilden II ran him razzle-frazzle in three straight sets. That was the beginning of a clean sweep for the U. S. at Mexico City. John Hennessy conquered Ricardo Tapia, schoolboy, and later, with less trouble, Gringo Kinsey. Wilmer Allison won a tough match from Alfonso Unda. In the doubles, Captain Tilden and Arnold N. Jones disposed of Unda and Kinsey...
...Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow watched some of the matches. Mexicans enjoyed the sizzling exhibition battles between U. S. players more than the Davis Cup walkaway...