Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...
...second round old Jack White shot an 86, withdrew. In 1904, he won the British open...
...Nina last year. Then the 59-foot Marconi-rigged schooner, reversing the journey of the Nina of Christopher Columbus after which she was named, won the Queen of Spain's cup. There was a $20 gold piece nailed on the after-end of the dog house, a prize for the first to sight land after the U. S. coastline had narrowed to invisibility. Luis, the Norwegian cook, won it. When the ship arrived at Santander a smart swarthy person greeted her from the deck of his yacht and explained: "I am the King of Spain." The crew was embarrassed...
Skipper Hammond did not have his tactful partner aboard last week, but no similar emergency arose as the Nina won another great race, 475 miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind...
Golf. U. S. Open Championship-Won by Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. (see p. 55). Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Thomas Aycock, Yale University; at Deal, N. J. Intercollegiate Team Championship-Won by Princeton University; at Deal. Tennis. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Berkeley Bell, University of Texas; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia...