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...hapless varsity stickmen, under the helm of skipper Bruce Munro for the last time, completed a dismal season by topping the Big Green, 6-4, for only their third win against six losses...
Harvard came in second to the Coast Guard overall, and Tufts followed the Crimson in the race. Terry Neff, a sophomore at Harvard, was voted number-one sailor in New England after the regatta. Harvard's Chris Middendorf was low point skipper for the meet, and is now ranked fourth in New England...
Kathy Angell, skipper for Harvard's first team, said yesterday that the club is psyched to top MIT in the Nationals because Radcliffe was a very close second to MIT at the Nationals last year. "It will probably come down to Radcliffe, MIT, and maybe Princeton," Angell said...
...Bermuda the seas were fairly calm, and passengers' morale was in most cases high as a kite. Surrounded by water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching triumph from the jaws of disaster...
Other clubs weren't so lucky as the Pirates or the Mets over the winter. That old horse-trader Gene Mauch will probably wish he never picked up the phone during the off-season. The Montreal skipper dealt away his whole franchise (with the exception of super-star Ken Singleton) when he sent Mike Marshall to the Dodgers for Willie Davis. While Walt Alston is busy smacking his lips, Mauch will have to depend on a staff that makes even Atlanta's hurlers look good, and that's bad news for die-hard Expo fans...