Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral run on the same turf at the same time, the horse racing world was treated to the next best thing. On the same day, in the two top-ranking races of the winter season (the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap and the $50,000 WIdener Challenge Cup), Seabiscuit was entered against the best horses running in California and War Admiral was entered against the best in Florida. Both, of course, were favorites...
...divisions-International and American-of four teams each. Whereas baseball's annual championship is a World Series in which the leading team of each league takes part, hockey's championship is not a series between the leading teams but a complicated round robin (for a battered $50 cup) in which the three top teams of each division take part...
Since no team is out of the race for the Stanley Cup until it can no longer climb out of cellar place in its division, last week, with only five games to go, the hockey season was at its height. In the International Division-led by the Toronto Maple Leafs, with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Americans struggling for second place-the Montreal Maroons seemed destined to stay in the cellar. But in the American Division- with the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers well out in front-the Detroit Red Wings, in the cellar, were close...
...Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. After his team won the Allan Cup, Canada's No. 1 amateur trophy, Goalie Kerr turned professional, joined the Montreal Maroons, from whom the Rangers bought...
...straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...