Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Professional Golfers Association called off this year's Ryder Cup matches (between U. S. and British pros), No. i international event on the golf calendar, scheduled at Florida's Ponte Vedra Beach course in November...
...58th U. S. Singles tournament warmed up at New York's Forest Hills, it looked as if the Australians (John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, Jack Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
Earlier last week Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, had announced that the team (all eligible for war service) had been instructed to return home at once. But Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman did not fall in with Sir Norman's plans. He and his teammates were eager for one last fling at tennis before returning to their regiments. Picking up a telephone, Captain Hopman spoke to authorities Down Under, received permission to remain in the U. S.' for the National matches...
...singles players, 21-year-old Bobby Riggs and 23-year-old Frankie Parker-despite the fact that Riggs won the All-England championship at Wimbledon this year and Parker clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. two years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge...
Riggs was expected to win one singles match last week-most likely against Quist, whom he had defeated in the Davis Cup Challenge Round last year. Beyond this lonely hope, few tennis experts expected much from the U. S. team. But at the end of the first day's matches, the experts realized that they had sold Riggs and Parker short...