Word: sopwiths
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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...
...Last week's arrival in the U. S. was not T. O. M. Sopwith's first. In 1911, when he was 23 and had just won £4,000 for a non-stop flight of 176 mi., he brought to the U. S. a rickety biplane. With it, he made exhibition flights, took such notables as Nelson Doubleday and Walter Damrosch up for rides over Long Island. Interested in speed on water also, he won the Harmsworth Trophy in 1912 with Edgar Mackey's Maple Leaf IV, defended it successfully the next year. With the War, ''Tom" Sopwith began...
...Sopwith's first wife, a daughter of the 8th Baron Ruthven, died. The present Mrs. Sopwith, whom he married two years ago, is an expert deep-sea fisherwoman, last year caught a 640-lb. tuna in British waters after a 6-hour struggle. As enthusiastic about sailing as her husband, Mrs. Sopwith will be the first woman ever to help man a boat in an America's Cup race. Her job will be time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross...
...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 for a mahogany rudder...
...York Yacht Club, which holds the homely $500 flagon won by America 82 years ago, received news of the Sopwith challenge with its usual studied calm. Officials would say nothing until the formal challenge should arrive by mail. Then the procedure would be appointment of a cup committee, the issuance of invitations to individual members or syndicates of members to build defense candidates. Of the three yachts engaged in the defense against Shamrock V in 1930 only Weetamoe is in commission. She was bought by Banker Frederick Henry Prince of Boston and refitted according to the new rules...