Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prelude to next summer's triennial matches with England for the Westchester Cup, polo's No. 1 trophy, the U. S. Open polo championship, played at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club last week, took on added importance. Facing one another in the final were two of the best teams this generation of polo enthusiasts has ever seen. One was Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Old Westbury four, last year's winner. The other was Greentree, last year's runner-up, backed by his cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Old Westbury...
...half century of U. S. polo, only 15 players have ever attained handicap ratings of ten goals, the game's highest rank. One of the first ten-goalers was Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (1894, 1900, 1901), who captained the first U. S. team that challenged England for the Westchester Cup. Tommy Jr. has been ranked at ten goals for 16 years-greatest feat in polo history...
...twelfth time the U. S. had won the Davis Cup, put up in 1900 by onetime U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis...
...George Nichols' three-month-old Goose, U. S. six-metre defender: the Scandinavian Gold Cup series. No. 1 international sailing event in years when there is no challenge for the more famed America's Cup; defeating boats representing Norway, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain; on Long Island Sound, off Oyster...
...Alagi, 12-litre hydroplane owned and driven by Italian Count Theo Rossi (vermouth) : the Gold Cup, No. 1 U. S. motorboat trophy; averaging 64 m.p.h. over a 90-mile course (three ten-lap heats); on the Detroit River, off Detroit...