Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took an hour and a half 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. On the other side of the draw, muscular Helen Jacobs had had one shaky afternoon against Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, who interrupted the match frequently to inquire of press telegraphers about her husband, playing Ellsworth Vines at Newport (see below). Both Van Ryns lost. Two days later Helen Jacobs took the step penultimate to what she hoped would be her first U. S. championship by beating another British semifinalist, Mrs. Elsie Goldsack Pittman, 6-2, 6-3. Either way the Babcock-Jacobs match turned...
...Marble House," famed old Newport mansion of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. "Marble House" was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup contender Weetamoe, sailed by Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt: the King's Cup. at Newport, closing race of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; against Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, the only other big racing sloop in commission this year...
...Horace E. Dodge's seven-year-old- speedboat Delphine IV, driven by Bill Horn of Newport News, Va.: the 29th running of the Gold Cup Race; with a record heat of 59.21 m. p. h.; at Lake Montauk...
...course directly the race started and when we tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing a Newport wharf, successfully sailed the Curlew home to the Bronxonia Yacht Club...