Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys...
...husband took their children to France during the War, did relief work till 1919. In 1921 Mrs. Fisher was appointed a member of Vermont's State Board of Education. She is one of the five judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Other books: The Brimming Cup, Rough-Hewn, Raw Material, The Home-Maker, Her Son's Wife...
...Hoblitzel, and he beat each of them 5 & 4. Meanwhile, blond, wiry George Von Elm, and stocky, curly-haired Maurice McCarthy played the best match of the tournament-a match that went ten extra holes before McCarthy won it with a pitch that stopped a few inches from the cup. Von Elm came within one ball-revolution of sinking his 15-ft. putt for a half. McCarthy had played 49 holes when the day was over-19 with Watts Gunn in the first round, two in the play-off for the last five qualifying places besides his 28 with...
...Morgan lacrosse cup, awarded every year to that player who does the must for Harvard lacrosse, has just been won by Gardiner Robinson '31, the present captain. Robinson will receive a small cup and have his name engraved on the permanent cup to be exhibited in Leavitt and Peirce's window today. The award is made by a graduate committee of lacrosse of which C. E. Marsters '07 is chairman. This big cup has been awarded every year for the last 20 years, to the most valuable player. Faude has been a regular player on the lacrosse team for three...
Skipper Vanderbilt too had been watching Shamrock closely. As the sail fell, he whipped Enterprise about. The committeemen were coming over in their boat. They shouted at Vanderbilt, telling him to go on. The rules of the America's Cup races provide that if one boat is disabled the other is awarded the race, whether or not she completes the course. Skipper Vanderbilt knew that, remembered how Shamrock IV had won the first race of the series in 1920 by a similar accident. He sailed over to Shamrock V and came around her to make sure no one was hurt...