Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play in the Eastern grass-court tournaments, to be included among the first ten in U. S. ranking and be selected for the Davis Cup is the ambition of every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments...
...Riggs, just returned from Europe, where he proved that he deserves the rank of top U. S. tennist (inherited when Champion Budge abdicated last fall) by winning the All-England championship at Wimbledon three weeks ago. That Riggs will be chosen as one of the defenders of the Davis Cup this year is practically a foregone conclusion. It is for the other singles assignment and the doubles team that the country's hot shots will for the next four weeks engage in a free-for all on the hallowed grass at Seabright, Southampton, Rye and Newport...
...year-old Frankie Parker (né Pajkowski), the sensational Milwaukee ball boy who rose to No. 2 ranking in 1936, clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. in 1937, slumped last year after marrying his foster mother, Mrs. Mercer Beasley, and this year-cannier, more confident, and equipped with a new forehand-has shown promise of returning to his top-notch form...
What ensued was a pull-devil-pull-baker-final whose drama was enlivened by balls bouncing off spectators' legs, jumping stymies, hitting flagpoles and miraculously falling into cups. On the 36th green, the match was still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently...
...famed little spot 30 miles from London, where the Thames creeps between chalk hills, 50,000 gaily decked Britons turned out for the four-day regatta. With polite murmurs of "well rowed!", they watched U. S. oarsmen make a clean sweep of the three major races: the Grand Challenge Cup (Harvard's varsity crew), the Thames Challenge Cup (Tabor Academy of Marion, Mass.), and the Diamond Sculls (Joe Burk of Bridgeboro...