Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Starling Burgess, 68, famed naval architect, designer of three successful America's Cup defenders (Ranger, Rainbow, Enterprise), pioneer airman and aircraft designer (winner of the prized Collier Trophy in 1915 for developing a self-stabilizing airplane); of a heart ailment; in Hoboken...
...play left, the teams in the National Hockey League ranked, roughly, in the order of their distance from the North Pole: Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Detroit, New York, Chicago. Next week the top four will meet in the profitable (up to $2,000 bonus per player) but anticlimactic Stanley Cup playoffs. Whether or not they keep the Cup, Les Canadiens are the icemen of the year. By clinching the regular-season top spot for four consecutive years, they have won a position comparable to that of baseball's New York Yankees of the 1930s...
With today's competition, squash, swimming, and basketball follow football in post-war resumption of hostilities with Yale College champions. Lowell and Adams are out to reassert Crimson House supremacy, sorely tested in the seven grid contests, in which only one local entry emerged triumphant. STRAUS CUP STANDINGS House Total Points Leverett 577 1/2 Lowell 577 1/2 Eliot 487 1/2 Dunster 485 Kirkland 480 Winthrop 465 Adams 412 1/2 Dudley...
...close-shaven grass courts of Forest Hills and Melbourne, 25-year-old Jack Kramer had swept all amateur tennis opponents before him. How would the Davis Cup hero do on a slippery board floor? He wasn't sure himself. Last week, in the U.S. indoor championships in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he put himself to the test. It was his first indoor tournament...
...doubles r Kramer and Falkenburg, in a five-set final over Talbert and Wood's old Davis Cup running mate, Francis X. Shields...