Yachtsmen Seek Win To Retain Sloop Title

Carter Ford will defend the White Trophy for the New England Sloop Championship tomorrow and Sunday against the hosting Coast Guard Academy, B.U., Holy Cross, M.I.T., Tufts, and Williams. Of Ford's three crewmen, Pete Drake, Rock Pring, and Mike Horn, the latter two were with him when he sailed away from B.U. in a playoff match last fall.

B.U., who beat Harvard in a preliminary by two points, and the Crimson are favored, although both have weaknesses. Nobody knows how Ford will do from race to race; two weeks ago he won the Jack Wood Trophy at M.I.T., and then finished sixth in the Danmark Trophy competition a week later. B.U. has been weak starting, and may find the scramble at the gun too much.

M.I.T. will host the Freshman Individual Crew Championship this weekend, with Desmond Fitzgerald skippering the Crimson entry against 16 other colleges. Another competition, the Brown Fall Regatta, takes place Sunday, and, with Ford occupied, Mike Lehmann and either Pete Farrow or Dave Stookey will skipper the two boats from the Charles.