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Harvard Sailors Race to Second In 9 Team Meet

the Harvard sailing team qualified for the New England Dinghy Championships by placing second to a strong Coast Guard team last weekend.

Coast Guard and M.I.T. will be the when the Championships are held at M.I.T. on May 6 and 7 but the Harvard team has shown sporadic flashes strength in the first races of the season.

Tony Parker and Woody Underwood sailed to four firsts and three seconds in division B last Saturday. Two weeks ago Harvard narrowly missed second in a thirteen team race and finished ahead of the other Ivy League schools competing.

The sailing team showed its depth by qualifiying five boats for the semi-finals of the New England Single-Handed Championships. No other school qualified more than three sailors for the event. Andy Kittler, John Clement, and Jim Harper breezed to firsts in the qualifying heats.

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