Harvard Sailors Triumph Sunday

Harvard qualified three sailors for the New England Intercollegiate Sailing. Association championships in a weekend of racing marred by calms and rain on Saturday and gale winds on Sunday.

Tony Parker, Jim Harper, and John Clement will be among the 12 to race in the NEISA Singlehanded Championship May 21. Their boats reached incredible speeds in the 35-knot wind Sunday and often came close to capsizing. John Bullard and Win Fowler also raced, but failed to qualify.

In four races Saturday at New Haven, Harvard built a solid 30-10 lead over Pennsylvania for the Ivy League championship. High winds Sunday forced a postponement of the final races until June 10. Andy Mitchell sailed to two firsts for Harvard, and Jim Lanckton took a third and a fourth.

Harvard is also a heavy favorite in the NEISA Dinghy championships which will be held next weekend at M.I.T.

Last week at M.I.T. the Engineer girls defeated Radcliffe in the Women's Invitational Regatta, but the bitter Cliffies are appealing the decision and hope to be declared winners. They argue that the M.I.T. sailorettes were using equipment that the Race Committee admits was illegal. The Committee disallowed a protest immediately after the race on the grounds that "it was illegally made."