Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right now he had some nearer varmints to contend with-some visiting Australians, survivors of 22 nations which this year challenged for the Davis Cup. It would be the first cup "challenge round" to be decided in the U.S. since Australia took the cup home eight years ago. And next week, the 67th U.S. singles championship would get under way, with the best of the world's amateur stars trying their hardest to do the unlikely and dethrone King Jake...
...just wasn't Britain's year in international sport. Against one of the strongest U.S. teams ever sent to the courts, Britain's tennis team knew that it had no chance to take home the Wightman Cup (for women's tennis). But there was a match to be played, and 38-year-old Captain Ted Avory, who helped select the British team, had picked the best in British tennis. U.S. spectators, taking his word for that, decided that he had also picked the best-looking...
...Stalling! Stalling!" The day before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
...Montreal the Australian Davis Cup team of Jack Bromwich, Dinny Pails and Colin Long beat Czechoslovakia in the interzone final, 4-1. The Aussies will tackle the U.S. in the challenge round at Forest Hills, at the end of this month...
...signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...