A Last Hurrah

Newport—There is substantial expectation here, fearful or otherwise, that Australia will sail away with the America’s Cup toward the end of this month. If so, the longest winning streak in history, as the sportswriters say, will have been broken.

For the United States to lose the legendary trophy would be, on paper at least, a terrible blow. Since 1851, when the schooner America won the Cup in a race around the Isle of Wight, 25 different challenges, originally British but in latter years chiefly Australian, have tried and failed, and in most cases failed ignominiously, to win it away.

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Newport—There is substantial expectation here, fearful or otherwise, that Australia will sail away with the America’s Cup toward the end of this month. If so, the longest winning streak in history, as the sportswriters say, will have been broken.

For the United States to lose the legendary trophy would be, on paper at least, a terrible blow. Since 1851, when the schooner America won the Cup in a race around the Isle of Wight, 25 different challenges, originally British but in latter years chiefly Australian, have tried and failed, and in most cases failed ignominiously, to win it away.