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...Crimson's boats were manned by Tony Parker (skipper) and Woody Woodworth (crew) in the A division, Jim Harper (skipper) and Rusty Aertson (crew) in the B division, and Parker Jayne (skipper) and Denny Anderson (crew) in the C division...
...Saturday, Parker, the team's best skipper, finished first with 58 points in the fourth heat of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association's single-handed Eliminations at the University of Rhode Island...
...division Harvard's Bill Smith (skipper) and Denny Anderson (crew) tied for second with 29 points. Jeffrey Padnos (skipper) and Rick Scheuer (crew) won the B division with 39 points...
...night and night to day, Clarke and the great fish fought it out at opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after...
Desperately disappointed? Naturally. And yet there was glory enough in the losing fight. Both angler and skipper belong to a proliferating new breed of saltwater sportsman; the light-tackle fisherman, to whom the fight is more important than the catch, and sport means giving the fish a sporting chance...