Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon and had to lose position running along the line waiting for the whistle. So Captain Heard won the start again. The first leg was to windward, to a buoy off Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind (9 min. 17 sec.) and the race practically over at the end of the first leg. On the two remaining legs...
...course: leeward 15 mi. to the tug Thomas F. Moran, 15 mi. back into the wind to Brenton's Reef. Majestically the high-rigged contenders sailed up to the line, broke out their ballooners and the race was on. Enterprise led off, steadily increased her lead to 50 yd. An hour later Captain Heard, taking advantage of a favorable blow, sailed up bow to bow with the defender. Then Enterprise had the luck, drew away again. Shamrock V had crowded on too much canvas, was falling farther astern. Down two lanes of destroyers and pleasure craft following in the wake...
...baby jib, topsail and staysail, started on the homeward reach (wind close abeam). From then on the challenger, reputed "ghoster," was no match for the defender. At the 25-mi. mark, Enterprise, her sails taut, her happy crew sprawled along the weather rail, was leading by 1,000 yd. At 4:57 p. m. she crossed the finish line amid a din of whistles and an excited babble of radio announcers over two national networks. Shamrock V arrived 2 min. 52 sec. later...
...accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods the U. S. team put on speed while their opponents tired; Hopping banged in a 60-yd. drive; Hitchcock got in a long one, but twice Lacey got away from the pack for spectacular scores. ". . . The hardest match I ever played in," said Hitchcock as he dismounted...
...gained a slight advantage over Alex Wilson of Canada. He fumbled giving the baton to Eddie Tolan and ten yards were lost. But then George Simpson, Ohio State's "Buckeye Bullet," cut five yards off the lead and little Genung started after Hampson. He caught him at 440 yd., passed him in the backstretch, finished 70 yd. ahead. Then the crowd found out that De Mers' single javelin-throw had been 198 ft. 4½ in., 8½ ft. short of New Zealander Stan Lay's, but giving the U. S. a winning total...