Word: best-of-seven
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...triumph, built on Cuellar's shutout pitching after a shaky first inning, and a 15-hit attack that included home runs by Frank Robinson and Mery Rettenmund in an assault on the record books, gave the Orioles four victories to one for the Reds in the best-of-seven...
...schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...
...sided. Last week, though the U.S. yacht Intrepid held a 3-1 lead over Australia's Gretel II on the scoreboard, the action on the water was the closest, most hard fought in years. Plagued by fog, riddled with protests and jolted by a collision, the best-of-seven series was also one of the most bizarre and controversial in Cup annals. Said the Sydney Sun: "The name of the race committee boat sums up the whole shebang-Incredible...
...games, and the Lakers were lucky to make the National Basketball Association playoffs. The New York Knickerbockers, on the other hand, never had a better season: they breezed into the finals behind Center Willis Reed, the league's Most Valuable Player. Then last week, with the best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece, a startling turnabout occurred. There stood Chamberlain, back from surgery and looking as menacing as ever. And there, after eight minutes of the fifth game, lay Reed, writhing on the floor with a severely strained hip muscle...
...Australian entrants. John Newcombe and Fred Stolle. will be playing Stan Smith and Arthur Ashe in tonight's two single matches. Two matches Tuesday night and three Wednesday night will complete the best-of-seven series...