Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When questioned about the Walker Cup matches with England this summer he seemed quite optimistic. "I don't want to appear too enthusiastic, but under the present existing conditions it is difficult to see how we can lose...
Rene Lacoste (world's tennis champion) stood by while the Davis Cup drawings for 1928 were being made in Paris, heard President Gaston Doumergue of France say: "I am going to nominate you Ambassador to Washington [the U. S.]. You are the only man we have to counterbalance Lindbergh...
...George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables conspicuous by absence from the lists owing to insufficient tennis activity in 1927 were William Johnston, for a dozen years in the first six; R. Norris Williams, potent defender of many a Davis Cup; Elizabeth Ryan, second woman in 1926, and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup...
Lawrance developed a sporting interest in racing automobiles. With two classmates, he built the BLM cars which experts said were efficient and powerful, but which did not win the Vanderbilt Cup races. Then he studied three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, learning more about airplanes than art. During the War he was assigned by the Navy to research work in the Aircraft Engine Division, where he produced the three-cylinder, 60-horse-power, air-cooled Lawrance motor. This motor was the forerunner of the famed Wright J5 Whirlwind, designed in 1921, taken over by the Wright...
...winners of the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Cup will be announced on the evening of February 16, and these prizes will be awarded at the dinner...