Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Henry Thornton, president of Canadian National Railways, attending a dinner at Manhattan's University of Pennsylvania Club, saw his name inscribed on the Guggenheim Honor Cup which records the names of distinguished graduates. A member of the class of 1894, he played on the Pennsylvania champion football team of that year...
Alice, daughter of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines (donor of the Davis Cup), was defeated in the finals of a tennis match for the women's championship of the island by Mrs. Felisa Ochoa. Score...
Last year about this time, at Pensacola, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami Beach and Pinehurst a young pro named Horton Smith, whom no one had ever heard of before, began to win tournaments. He went abroad with the Ryder Cup Team, and on May 22 - his 21st birthday - won the professional championship of France. People were saying then that within a year or two he would be National Open champion, but Horton Smith, not flustered by the publicity he was getting, kept going from one club to another, playing golf. In the last 16 months he has won 13 major tournaments...
Shrouded in mystery were the British planes and motors, entrants in last autumn's Schneider Cup Race on the Solent (TIME, Sept. 16). Even after the Royal Air Force astounded the world by winning the race at 328 m. p. h. and later smashing all speed records by flying 357.7 m. p. h. on a three-kilometer closed course at Calshot, little was known of the Rolls-Royce engine used...
...evening the University swords-men were downed by the Boston Athletic Association, 5-0, in a preliminary match of the Wilbur Cup competition...