Sailors Race In Nationals

After two years of frustration, the seniors on the Harvard sailing team will finally get a clear shot at the National Sailing Championship today and tomorrow at Annapolis, Md.

The Crimson-which has dominated New England competition for the past two seasons only to fall a part in the final qualifying regattas for the Nationals-placed second in the New England Dinghy Championships at Yale on May 8 and 9 to become the first Harvard team to qualify for the Nationals since 1964.

Led by skippers Robbie Doyle in the "A" division and Abbott Reeve in the "B" division, Harvard placed second behind Rhode Island in the New England finals.

Supremacy Symbol

By easily outdistancing seven other fleets in the Ivy League Championships on May 1 and 2, the Crimson also became the first squad to win the Moshacher Trophy-symbolic of the Ivy League supremacy-three times.

Harvard is currently ranked fifth in the nation and is seeking its first North American title since 1959.

Although opposition in the Nationals will be predictably stiff, Doyle (a two-time All-American who last year won the North American single-handed title) and coach Mike Horn are confident they have a legitimate claim to the championship.

Horn is encouraged by the light winds characteristic of Annapolis, which, he says, "seem to favor our skippers."

Beside Doyle and Reeve, Charlie Koch is at Annapolis in a relief capacity. All three are strong candidates for All-American this year, largely contingent on how well they do this week in the finals.