Word: sopwith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...races cannot be expected to go all the way from one stage to another with one undignified leap. Specifications for next year's boats, drawn up by the New York Yacht Club's cup committee, still have to be approved by Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith...
With its customary air of imparting an enormously weighty secret to an annoyingly impatient world, the New York Yacht Club last week announced, in round official style, that it had received a challenge from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith to race for the America's Cup in the summer of 1937. What made the announcement a shade less than breathtaking, even to that microscopic minority of the sporting public which normally gets excited about the America's Cup, was that the news had been unofficially given out in England...
Main feature of yachting's biggest international event has always been the unsporting controversies that precede, accompany and follow it. Main feature of Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will...
Young, wiry Mr. Grubb, who is the nephew of Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...
...Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth...