Word: best-of-seven
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After disposing of a weak Rhode Island University team in Saturday's semifinals, the sailors split the first four races of their best-of-seven series with Coast Guard Sunday. The Cadets won the fifth race to take the lead, and with darkness descending, meet officials decided to postpone the final races until yesterday...
When northwesterly winds reached 35 knots, the final best-of-seven series between Harvard and Coast Guard was postponed for a week. The Crimson sailors hope to revenge an earlier encounter with the Coast Guard Academy in which they lost the Erwin E. Schell Trophy by a small margin...
...challengers had won only five*-and the last boat to do it was Britain's Endeavour, 28 years ago. But last week, off Newport, R.I., Australia's Gretel and Skipper Jock Sturrock proved to be unawed by the statistics. In the first four races of the best-of-seven series, the Aussies lost three to the U.S. defender, Weatherly, and her quiet genius, Bus Mosbacher. But Gretel did win one, and in a way that led one Aussie to proclaim: "Australians everywhere stand ten feet tall today...
...time for this weekend's starting gun approached, the word in Newport was "Weatherly in four" in the best-of-seven competition for the America's Cup. Weatherly was ready. Well tuned by the 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...
...change, the Yanks go into the best-of-seven competition without serious injury. In '55 Hank Bauer and Mickey Mantle were crippled and last year Mantle and Bill Skowron were below par although they did see action...