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...Yacht Club has captured every major championship it has competed for this fall. Other titles won by the sailors are: the New England Sloop Championship, the Greater Boston Championship, and the Ivy League and the Big Three trophies...
Overcoming bad breaks, and violent weather conditions, the Harvard sailing team won the New England Sloop Championship for the third successive year Sunday in New London, Connecticut...
Sunday, the wind was blowing from southwest at speeds approaching forty miles per hour. The Crimson had getting their sloop moving in the day's first race, and consequently finished third behind the previous day's leaders, Rhode Island and Yale. Harvard how fallen dangerously far behind in the point totals, and needed to do extremely well in the last three races in order to retain the championship...
...next race began after an hour's delay for recovering a sloop which capsized on the way to the start. The winds were at their fiercest of the weekend, staying afloat was a challenge. Luck favored Harvard for a change as both Yale and Rhode Island fouled out. Not willing to risk capsizing, Ford sailed conservatively and finished second. Harvard was now in first place, one point ahead of Tale...
...final race. Sailing conditions were somewhat better than in the previous run, and the conditions Crimson crew got off to the kind of lead Ford is noted for. Rhode Island and Yale saw Harvard's stern for the rest of the race, but could not over-take the Crimson sloop. Shouts of joy were heard as the victorious Harvard team crossed the finish line...