Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half century of amateur tennis, only one man has achieved a grand slam of the game's four major tournaments-Don Budge, who in 1938 swept the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Last week another name went into the record book beside Budge's. At Forest Hills, N.Y., Rod ("Rocket") Laver, a deceptively small (5 ft. 9 in.), bowlegged Australian, scored a smashing victory in the U.S. championships to complete his own remarkable sweep and match Budge's 24-year-old record. Laver did it by defeating Fellow Aussie Roy Emerson, the player who had beat...
...America's Cup Race (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The race series begins Sept. 15. This program develops its background, shows films of the elimination races held in August and excerpts from the two races already run by this date between the American twelve-meter yacht Weatherly and the Australian sloop Gretel...
...trial races that made her the U.S. defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread of a dozen shipfitters who had come aboard for final, perhaps desperate, changes...
...month of sailing against the trial horse Vim, Gretel had shown an alarming tendency to heel over in heavy weather. Hoping to correct it, Sir Frank Packer, head of the syndicate behind the Australian contender, ordered her 90-ft. aluminum mast stepped forward 19 in. Her rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...
Despite the odds against him, Packer showed that he still kept faith. While Gretel was still out of the water and her mast not yet set, word came from Australia that he had jumped at the 5-to-4 odds Australian bookies are giving against him to bet $22.500 on Gretel's victory...