The Charles River Basin, long the joint property of the Varsity crew and the M.I.T. dinghy feet, seems to be facing a possible consolidation of ownership these days. A rejuvenated Crimson Yacht Club has brought the mythical championship into dispute for the first time in nearly a decade.

First signs of danger for the high-riding Techmen came this summer when three Harvard skippers took the Leonard M. Fowle trophy out from under the noses of the surprised Engineers as well as the 11 other competitors. Tom Day, who accounted personally for more than half of the Crimson's 214 point total, received help from Ralph Foster and Pete Putnam.

With this victory, the first major triumph for the College tars since they won the eastern championship in 1944, the yatchsmen attacked their fall schedule with Gus Scamans, fugitive from the soccer squad, taking third in a Marble head big-boat competition. Next, Own Torrey and Hilary Smart cleaned up the Intercollegiate Star Class trials at New London, there by installing themselves as favorites for the finals there today.

Meanwhile, things have been picking up in the local dinghy department. Last Sunday, while the rest of the College slept off its post-football hangovers, Frank Scully, Dick Braisted, and Stew Clifford led the field home in the freshman qualifying rounds for the dinghy championship finals this week. Scully, assisted by another. Freshman, Jack Gardner, breezed home first in five races and finished second in the sixth.

If Scully can do it again this week while compatriots Puinam and Day face seven opponents in the Brown Fall Invitation Regatta t Providence, the Crimson will be entered in the School Trophy races on home waters next week.

A win in either race today will qualify for next week's affair but the big hopes seem to lie in the persistent winning habits of Scully and Gardner in the Basin