Sailors Second in Boston Regatta

A tired Harvard varsity sailing team could not quite catch M. I. T. and had to settle for a second yesterday in the Greater Boston Dinghy Championships on the Charles. Over the weekend the Crimson took a fifth in the Kennedy Cup at the Naval Academy.

Abbott Reeve tied for top skipper honors with M. I. T. captain Dave McComb in Division A yesterday, but captain Joe Worth in Division B and Jeff Storer in Division C could only manage seconds behind the firsts their M. I. T. counterparts produced.

Reeve Over McComb

Reeve, taking four seconds and a first in seven races, placed ahead of McComb in four of the races. Worth had four firsts but finished behind M. I. T.'s 1969 All-American Steve Milligan, while Storer, with two firsts, two seconds, and two thirds, was second to Pete Nesbeda.

B. U. and Northeastern were a distant third and fourth respectively in the team standings.

"Our skippers were tired." sailing coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "They drove up from the Naval Academy Sunday night and didn't get to Cambridge until 2 a. m. Then they had to be at M. I. T. at nine this morning."

Over the weekend the Crimson competed in the Naval Academy's 44-foot yawls in the Kennedy Cup-a major national regatta. Harvard and Brown were the New England representatives.

Harvard's ten-man crew, skippered by All-American Robbie Doyle, placed eleventh, sixth, fifth, third, and second successively in the five races.

"The crew made steady progress: it just takes a while to adjust to new conditions and a bigger boat." Horn said.

Tulane won the event followed by Navy and Cornell, the defending champion. Harvard finished ahead of both Brown and Princeton, the only other Ivy foes.

The freshman sailors were four points behind M. I. T. for a second in the Greater Boston Freshman Championships yesterday. Alfred Poor finished third in Division A, while George Putnam took a second in Division B. The performance qualified the Yardlings for the New England Championships.