Evening star., 1961-09-24
Light Winds
And Protests
Mark Regatta
BY DOUGLAS LAMBORNE
Contributing Writer

competed in light winds yester-
day in the 9th annual Presi-
dents Cup Regatta, as out-of-
town skippers dominated most
of the IA participating classes.
The final race will be held at
II am. today, with the winners
positions being decided on points
from three races. The vietors
viii take home trophies donated
by The Star.
The record flotilla of entrants
combined with hot temperatures
and an absence of any breeze to
produce both shortened courses
and shortened tempers. Also a
record number of protests, 20,
were reported.
The top race of the day
featured the swift catamarans,
twin-hulled affairs capable of
speeds over 20 knots. and
Howard Redfield of Darien,
Conn, easily won both his two
go-roundS.
Local crews, who usually
dominate the races in their
home waters, performed favor
ably only in the smaller classes.
Richard Brooks of Bethesda
copped two wins in the Penguin
seniors, while teenager Allen
Chavvenet of Silver Spring ac-
complished the same trick in
the Junior race for Penguins.
In the slightly larger Mob
jack class, James Nathanson of
Washington was also able to
take dual victories. In his Sec
ond race. Nathanson beat out
area veteran Walt Lawson, an
other Washingtonian, who took
a second.
The regatta's foreign entry,
Humberto Plaza from Ecuador,
was able to take a second in
the Lightnings. Returning from
Connecticut where he took
ninth in the nationals, he and
his Latin rceY competed with
a borrowed boat and sails.
The Flying Dutchman, Fly
ing Scot, and Jolly classes were
all run as one. with no system
OF handicapping. The start of
their second race was so
jammed and chaotic that cries
OF protest and other language
was heard before they even got
started. The Dutchmen finished
one, two, three in both of their
two chuckers.
Before the second race was
half under way, the breeze dis
appeared and the committee
was forced to shorten compe-
tition from three laps to one.
The Penguins raced for only "a
OF a lap, in order to relieve con-
gestion around the turn buoys.
First Race
Ds Giatsmsrans; Tisn' e6Sn ID; D., "; Redtield
ton, "a. H. Helmig. Havertown,
Flying Dutchman. "A n pordor
dTsens6OrC. N. {. 5-Wiiifanm 5-WiiiRn FISsSSs' Dodss,
Thistles: 1-Rey Mcleod, paines-
Island, N Y. 3-B. G. We'll, An
wasS MS0OiaSsks SH i flames pJaEa j. NsthansOp, Nathan
3-7Ralph Gotta, ANNAPOLIS.
Lightnings; Earl Engler, Towson,
Nd. 2-oliver Filippi, Brighton.
Mass. 3-Jack Elfman, Doylestown,
Hamptons; Ralph James, Hamp-
Bill Reese, Newport News.
Snipes: l~Ray Kaufman Port
RochesterD DA n. T. Y. as 8%Ras AfGffieF' %iiier,
Akron.
: Jet las: Peter Jones, Morristown,
n j. 2@eJoseph VILLAS. Kensington,
Comets, Karl Gerhard, Falls
Church. John Garrity, Baltimore.
3-Richard Cooper. Haddonfield N. ].
Penguin Seniors: Richard Brooks,
Bethesda; Lien Penso, Chevy Chase
Pensuin juniors: i@Allen chav-
venet, Silver Spring. 2-Rocky Mead
ows. Newport News. 3-Tommy Had
Gus. Edgewood, Md
Techs; Robert Hickok, Washing
, ton Owen oakley, jr;, Mclean,
va. 3-David BernheiSel, washington.
Second Race
Catamarans l-Redfield. Ted
,Melhs, Washington. 3-Richard Brown,
Flying Dutchman: David Sid
dons, Island Heights, N. j. NANNY
Williver' Newark, N. J. 3-John Kull,
Thisties; Mcleod. John Burg
graf, Arnold, Nd; 3-Wiley.
LaTsgR; Lay y. y WaSshippstSn. Sdp % 5~HenTy vii.
Lightnings:, June Methot, Lin
dor; 3-Lou Borses, Arlinston
Beisncpat hia%pt06s Gslena, iShneS Md Ree,su RwAusust
Tony Nevin, New York, N. 7.
Jet las 1-Engle 2-Jones. 3
DOUGLAS Gregory, Seat Pleasant, Md
D. Comets; Roger Judd, oseyerna
Wolcott, Red Bank, N. ].
Ronald Meyer, Brooklyn. N. Y.
Benguin Junior: 1-Chevvenet. .
HadoIs. Jimmy Scott, ANNAPOLIS.
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