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...Charlie Hoppin and Jim Nathanson are the Crimson's two skippers, the best two-captain team in New England, and the crews will be Tim Brown and George Robertson, taking the place of the graduated Tom Carroll and Johnny Bishop...
Sailing championships, it should be noted, are run on a two-division, double round robin basis. Thus Hoppin and Nathanson would each race 16 times. As each two-man racing dinghy differs slightly in performance from its twins, every college team--eight in all--received a chance to sail every boat in its division. Final scores are figured on a point-total basis, scores depending on the order of finish in each race...
...Hoppin was supposed to sail "A" division--the labelling is arbitrary and does not necessarily denote skill differential--with Carroll as his crew. But now Nathanson--with Horner his crew--moved over one division, while Carroll sailed "B" for the ailing Hoppin...
...Hoppin Sails...
Fortunately, Hoppin was well enough to take over again after the first race. And, in something of a fighting finish, tallied 107 points to lead the individual scoring...