Yacht Club to Enter Two Weekend Races

Olympic trials and the historic McMillan Cup Regatta will open the Yacht Club season this weekend.

Fred Hoppin will skipper the College eight-man entry in the McMillan Cup competition Saturday in the Chesapeake off Annapolis, The teams will sail in the Navy's 46-foot yawls in a two-heat race. Four other New England crews, Bowdoin, Brown, M.I.T., and the Coast Guard Academy will compete. The favored teams this year are from Navy, Georgetown, King's Point, and Princeton.

John Deknatel, and Thomas Townsend will sail Monotype or Finn Class boats in a preliminary Olympic Trial at M.I.T. on Saturday. The 14 leading skippers will be invited to join nine other men, picked on their past records in the final New England trial on April 7 and 8 in Marion, Mass. The sailors will race single-handed in M.I.T. dinghies.