Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Race strategy was handled far too often at the beginning by the head of the Australian syndicate, Sir Frank Parker. Only after the debacle of the first race was Sturrock allowed to wield complete control...
Weatherly, the sleek, blue-hulled United States defender last Tuesday handed the Australian challenger, Gretel, her fourth defeat in five races to keep the Cup in American hands...
Gretel then took advantage of an old Australian custom and, catching the following seas on her broad stern, surf-boarded home to a :47 victory and the fastest 24 mile race ever sailed by the swift Twelve meter sloops...
...meter sloop "Weatherly" yesterday clinched the America's Cup by beating the Australian challenger "Gretel" by 600 yards in a windwardleeward 24-mile yacht race off Newport, Rhode Island...
...four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little man; but his greatest strength is his vicious ground game and the cunning way he masks his shots. With the unique ability to shift his racket at the last moment, he can hit a baseline drive flat, give...