Word: vim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly, Donald Matthews' 19-year-old Vim...
Last month's trials established Columbia as the early favorite, but in the subsequent New York Yacht Club cruise, old Vim beat the new boats handsomely. Then last week, Weatherly came alive, beat both Vim and Columbia. The trials ended with each of the three leaders having beaten the others in match races, but Weatherly, by winning its last five races, sported the best record. Won-lost standings: Weatherly 6-2, Columbia 5-3, Vim 5-3, Easterner 0-8. With so little to choose between the top three, the selection committee scheduled a final trial series beginning Labor...
...flat calm fouled racing schedules most of the week as the first series of America's Cup trials for twelve-meter yachts ended off Newport, R.I. What racing there was clearly established the early-form supremacy of Columbia, skippered by Briggs Cunningham. John Matthews' ancient Vim performed well with good crew work, handily beating Weatherly and Chandler Hovey's Easterner, both of which were plagued by rigging breakdowns and boners attributable to inexperienced crews...
...pairings for the first trial, the winner was none of the spanking new beauties but an outsider-the veteran, refurbished Vim. Designed by Olin Stephens 19 years ago, Vim is another family affair. Bought by New York Businessman John Matthews back in 1951 and fitted out for cruising, Vim had been refurbished and reconditioned for a try at the Defender trials. Young (24) Donald Matthews brashly matched tactics with Briggs Cunningham, beat him to the starting line, and brought Vim home a whole minute ahead of Columbia. The second race petered out in a slatting calm. But before the committee...
With 14 weeks to go, reported the Times of London gloomily, Britain's current attempt to regain the America's Cup "was deemed to have all but failed." Boating buffs remembered 1939, when Evaine herself was beaten handily in British waters by the U.S.'s visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger...