Dinghy Racers Finish Last in Sunday Series

Sailing in strange boats in the Basin on Sunday, the frostbitten squad of the Harvard Yacht Club finished last, behind Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Brown, in a series of seven races, amassing a total of 101 points to 150 1/2 for Dartmouth.

Instead of using the Tech dinghies, the skippers took out the new dinghies of the Boston Community Sailing Pavillion in the good but puffy westerly breeze that turned the races into puff-hunting contests. At the end of each race the crews changed boats and set out again over one of the two courses laid out by the committee.

The men from Hanover took an early lead and held it all the way to beat M.I.T. by 12 points in the final standings. Indians Warner Willcox and Robert Wright led the individual scoring with 77 points to their credit, while the Crimson's leading crew, Robert Sherwood '43 and David Hadden '42, finished a poor ninth with 34 points. Sherwood did cop second in one round, but the Crimson skippers, who have done fairly well so far this fall, were way off form and never even threatened to pass third place Brown, 33 points ahead at the finish.