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...Orleans, Gene Walet III, 19, and improving with age, calmly sailed his 19-foot Lightning sloop to two firsts and three seconds in eight races, defeated Long Island's William S. Cox, 50½ to 45½, to take the Mallory Cup and the North American Sailing championship for the second year running (TIME...
...breeze-struck schoolboy of ten in New Orleans, Eugene Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...
Yacht Club in the finals, Gene Walet had scored the most points in a four-series total of 27 races...
Until last week when he came North, young Gene had never seen an International. But Helmsman Walet, crewed by two Tulane University students and his father, quickly got the feel of the bigger, more complicated craft. He finished second and third in the first two races, then learned some of the Internationals' finer points the hard way when he came in next to last in the third race. After that, he was the sloops' master...
...tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race to my dad for his [52nd] birthday present." Then father Walet bundled Gene and his victory trophy, a mammoth silver soup tureen, back to New Orleans, where, technically, the National Champion would have to account...
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