Sailors Swamp M.I.T.; Take Sharpe Trophy At Providence Races

Running under fair skies and before gusty winds, Harvard's best sailing team in years capped a busy but successful weekend by defeating eight eastern teams and taking the Sharpe Trophy at Providence yesterday.

Led by Fred Hoppin's first in the class A event and A.C. Langworthy's second in the B races, the sailors won 110 points, bettering MIT's 103. Brown finished third with 99 points in the dinghy meet. The victory marked the first Crimson win in the annual event in five years.

In Saturday's dinghy meeting, the sailors downed defending national champions MIT, 3-2. The Crimson boats lost the first two races but won the next three.

The same day, in a Raven meeting at the Coast Guard Academy, four other Crimson sailors finished first among five crews. Skippered by Peter Chermayev, Harvard took 14 1/4 points. The Coast Guard crew was second with 13 1/4. Chermayev's crew was William Owens, Lester Moulton, and Ted Barrett.

The team's next meet will be the hexagonal at MIT on April 21 with Babson, B.U. Dartmouth, Northeastern and MIT.