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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...
Underdog from the outset, Jock Sturrock and his Aussie crew nevertheless made Weatherly work for her victory. Gretel was plagued for much of the summer with mechanical difficulties--she snapped her boom only a few days before the first race...
...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...
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...