Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match yesterday afternoon, Ned Weld upset Tim Gallwey to win the third spot on the Harvard Prentice Cup group. Weld, who is one below Gallwey on the regular team, took the three-set match 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. He will join Junta, Sears, and three Yale players for the trip to England this summer to play the Cup matches...
...Casually upping the beat to a fast 36 for the final drive, Yale's power-stroking crew, built around three veterans of the 1956 Olympic winners, defeated Pennsylvania by 2½ lengths in the 27th Blackwell Cup on the rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
...reserved accolades as a grunt, a gently lifted hand and a muttered "Not too bad, what?" the committeemen had given a number of paintings the stature of D for doubtful, while marking the others X for rejected. Suddenly Academy President Charles Wheeler looked at a painting, put down his cup, summoned other committeemen to inspect the work "at once." To a man, they gave the painting an A*-an honor not awarded since "before our time," according to Academy Secretary Humphrey Brooke...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity added a strong Pennsylvania crew and an outclassed Navy squad to the list of its victims on Saturday. Establishing itself firmly as the second ranking crew in the country, the varsity survived its toughest challenge of the season to win the Adams Cup for the third straight year...