Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...table in front of the bright blue West Stand at Meadow Brook, gleaming as the emblem of victory for the International teams galloping up and down the broad stretch of turf, and as the central sparkle in one of the country's finest sporting panoramas. Custom dictates that the cup shall be at the field after one team has won one game. The score of the first game (10 to 5 for the U. S.) had made the second game seem a foregone conclusion. Largest score in international history, 14 to 9,* hung on the hooks when Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock...
...America's Cup contests, long a personal rivalry between Sir Thomas Lipton and U. S. yachtsmen, have created an odd inversion of partisanship. Many Americans would like Lipton to win because they feel he is a fine sportsman. Many Englishmen would like to see him lose because in the 32 years that he has built boats for the cup contests he had never allowed any fellow-countryman to make a challenge, always getting his own in first. Now 80, ruddy, genial, and almost professionally optimistic, he still affects the costume that appears in most photographs-blue serge suit, yachting...
...White House one day and spoke to President Hayes, who took him for a despatch boy . . . his remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week he was seriously ill, result of overexertion which a recent operation forbade...
...many reported engagements, he has retained yachting as his major hobby. As a boy of 12 he had spent his vacations knocking around the Ida Lewis lighthouse. In 1913 he sailed his yacht Vagrant from Portsmouth, Maine to Lisbon, Portugal in 23 days and won the King's Cup. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three years and served on a submarine chaser during the War. At all his amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara...
...afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett cup...