Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver Cup Prize...
Last week, the fleetest greyhounds money could buy congregated at Abilene, Kans. to race in the U.S. Challenge Cup. It was dogdom's Kentucky Derby, run over a green carpet of young Kansas wheat about two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home. This greyhound is Mount Mahan Rebel, who cost Owner George Oswald of Los Angeles $3,500 in Ireland less than a year ago. In the cup final, he met a grey and white Texas dog named Foggy Weather. While chasing a jack rabbit at 40 m.p.h., the pair of them crashed like two speeding autos...
This time, the Irish hound romped off with the cup and the $6,000 first prize...
...picture above, Putnam, already in possession of the "Cup" closes his eyes and Betty Trygstad '52 (far right) watches intently as Rona Jaffo '51 (second right) starts to remove her "shirt" while Folicia Rood (second left) smiles...
Unfortunately for Pete Putnam and his crew, the "Cup" turned out to be an empty wine bottle, and the "shirts" were empty potato sacks...