Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 15, two tall-masted sloops slanting across the line off Newport, R. I., will mark the start of the most expensive sports event in the world?the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races...
...entry up to within 60 days of the first race, if trials produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except...
...stocky, mournful-looking Bun Cook, who superstitiously insists on touching the ice before his teammates. Behind him glided his pugnacious Brother Bill, team captain, with whom he owns a big wheat farm in Saskatchewan, big, bald, grinning Ivan Wilfred ("Ching") Johnson, slender Frank Boucher, and a youngster named Murray Murdoch. With a few other teammates they made up the New York Rangers. They played that night against the Montreal Maroons...
...took place. Diamond signet rings were presented to the famed forwards-Cook-Boucher-&-Cook; to Johnson, defense man who has raised a five-year-old son since that first game in the Garden; to silver-haired Manager Lester Patrick and to weather-beaten little Trainer Harry Westerby. When Murray Murdoch's turn came, there was a special ritual. Out stepped Lou Gehrig, baseball's "iron man," who has played 1,350 consecutive games with the New York Yankees. He presented the ring to Murdoch, only Ranger to play in each and every one of the team...
...world's swankest yachting organization, had had no dealings with the U. S. since 1895 when the Earl of Dunraven sailed home in a rage, charging sharp practice by the America's Cup defenders. But the real challenger represented by the Squadron last week was Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith...