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...draws, bad cramps, and bad tennis cost Harvard the New England intercollegiate team tennis title, but Crimson sophomore Bernie Adelsberg stole the show by upsetting the first and second seeded players to win the singles championship...
...semifinals Adelsberg eliminated defending champ Jack Waltz of Yale, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3, and in the finals he dumped Dartmouth's Charlie Hoevler...
Both matches followed the same pattern. After quickly succumbing to the ferocious serve and-rush tactics in the first set, Adelsberg gradually slowed down the swarming games of his opponents in the second set and then spiked them with his sounder game in the third...
...finals Adelsberg broke down the big game of Hoevler and left him with few other resources as he romped to a 5-0, 40-love lead before Hoevler could muster a games...
...first doubles, Barnaby has teamed Gonzalez with Brian Davis, a powerful off-hand player with sharp volleys and lightning reflexes. Barnaby has tried this combination twice in team matches, but they may not have played together long enough to react in co-ordination like the Yale or Dartmouth pairs. Adelsberg and Kileff -- the slugger and the runner -- form Harvard's incongruous second doubles team...