Word: saile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was once a time when the implausible but inspired rhetoric of Tilden's tennis could overwhelm brilliance like Cochet's. But everyone understood that this time had long since passed when Tilden took the centre court at Wimbledon last fortnight. Tilden could still sail unbeaten through many a major tournament, but he had tried unsuccessfully to win at Wimbledon since his last (1921) singles victory there. Last week, after Cochet was beaten, it appeared that Jean Borotra would take care of Tilden. Borotra was playing better than ever before when they met in the semifinals...
Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...
...trial races are useful for tuning up the rigging, getting the crews spry and smart, are important as indications of form, but meaningless so far as the America's Cup races are concerned. In August at Newport the elimination races will be held and one boat chosen to sail for the U. S. against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island...
...Ambassador was about to sail for a furlough in the U. S. Cambridge University had just made him an honorary Doctor of Laws and in the distinguished audience sat prim John Galsworthy, elfin Sir James Matthew Barrie, beefy Lords Beauchamp and Bridgeman, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson? honorary degree...
...Lisbon docks, sailor, medaled hero. Once he saved eight persons in a fire at sea, was scarred himself. As a ring fighter he is inexperienced. Bertys Perry, his French-American manager, was obliged to teach him not to slug, how to uppercut. Last week he was preparing to sail for the U. S. He wants a Labor Day bout with that Italian Brobdingnagian, Primo Camera (height 6 ft. 6 1/2 in.; weight...