Word: gretel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...best of seven series was won by Bus Moshacher's boat after the fifth race of the sequence. Gretel won only the second race, and became the first challenger in the 111 years of competition to beat an American boat...
After a two-week rest, Skipper Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher and Weatherly's ten-man crew got together again in Newport at week's end. Mosbacher watched Gretel under sail after the mast shift and politely pronounced her "very good, very fast" in tacking and jibbing drills. Then he set about the business of putting Weatherly back in the water for the final days of practice on the sail trimming and flying starts that made the yacht unbeatable in the trials...
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...