Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despondent over the incapacity of English tennis players as winners or even serious contenders for the Davis Cup, Britain has hired a teacher. Karl Kozeluh, a leading professional tennis player of the continent, winner last week of an unofficial professional championship of Europe at Beaulieu, France, goes to the All-England club to tutor budding Britons. He is a Czechoslovak...
...exhibition of the designs submitted for the Topiarian Trophy Cup is being held in the Old Fogg Museum this week...
...seventh annual competition for the Topiarian Club Trophy Cup, which is open to all students in the School of Landscape Architecture, was won by B. S. Pray '25, it was announced yesterday. Second place went to R. S. Stryker, and third place was won by R. L. Reaser. Honorable mention were awarded to F. J. Cormier and R. O. Thompson. The winner of first place in the contest received a silver cup, and the winner of second place was given a book entitled "Charles Elliot, Landscape Architect...
...famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter Pan Cup...
Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...