Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Watching yacht races is a bore. Consequently, the sport normally attracts about as many spectators as a good game of ticktacktoe. Colossus of yachting is the series of races for the America's Cup. Consequently, watching America's Cup races would be a colossal bore except for one fact. So many people think they want to see the America's Cup races that almost no one does. Last week, 50,000 people and about $1,000,000,000 worth of privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly...
First Race. The America's Cup goes to the yacht which first wins four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just...
...better breeze. The hope, forlorn at best, was frustrated. When Ranger crossed the line, in a deafening uproar from the spectator fleet. Endeavour was barely visible in a gathering fog. She finished 17 min. 5 sec. later, beaten more thoroughly than any boat in an America's Cup race since James Bell's Thistle was beaten by Volunteer...
...players before they saw the Press. The P. G. A. representatives missed the cutter which took reporters down the bay to meet the boat. Trying frantically to close the incident, the P. G. A. last week talked about sending a publicity man with the next U. S. Ryder Cup team, if there...
Died. Ernest von Delius, German auto racer who last month placed fourth in the Vanderbilt Cup race at Westbury, L. I.; of injuries after an accident in a race at Nurnberg; in Bonn, Germany...