Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...
...racing for the America's Cup has been a bitter and disappointing experience to British challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, the past summer has proved even more distressing to his partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped...
...Sigrist was overshadowed by ambitious Mrs. Sopwith, Endeavour I, and Endeavour II held no formal trial races and rumor was that the partners had a series of misunderstandings. Mr. Sopwith selected Endeavour II as the challenger, lost his navigator when Donald MacPhee died of gastric ulcers, then lost the cup to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger with four straight defeats. At the end of this unfortunate adventure overseas, with relations cooler than they had been in 20 years of partnership, the Sigrists and Sopwiths sailed home...
Play in all the tournaments will begin on Monday, October 4. The winner of the Singles A tournament will have his name engraved on the original Philip Nathaniel Jackson Cup and will receive a photograph of the cup. Some of the Houses present cups to the winners of the House tournament. This year the eight House winners will enter an Inter-House Championship tournament. This arrangement of fall House tennis competition should prove very effective. Not only will it organize well the fall competition, but it will enable the tennis managers to observe the players from the point of view...
...feature of the fall rowing program will be the Thomas W. Slocum Cup race for Freshman intramural crews to be held during the first week of November. The names of the winners are engraved on the cup. There will also be two singles regattas one for the Houses and one open university regatta. What there will be of rowing eights will be informal and will have as its aim the development of oarsmen for the spring House boats...