Word: bowditch
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Fred Vinton and Jorge Lemann, the fourth and fifth singles men, will not be making the trip for the varsity. Thus, Bill Wood will move up to fourth position, with Jim Cameron and Laurie Pratt playing fifth and sixth. Captain Ned Weld, Bob Bowditch, and Tim Gallwey remain in the first three slots...
...Weld and Bowditch continue as the number one doubles team, and Wood and Gallwey, a new pair set up because Lemann and Vinton will miss the trip, will play second. The third doubles team is indefinite, with Pratt and Cameron, Langden Smith and Scott Custer, and Dick Chute and Denny Briggs as possibilities...
...varsity swept the remaining matches without the loss of a set. Bob Bowditch, looking very good at second singles, beat Don Hicks, 6-1, 6-2, and then paired with Weld to take the first doubles from Richardson and Hicks, 8-6, 6-2. Tim Gallwey, at number three, took Chris Grose, 6-2, 6-0, and fourth man Fred Vinton beat Marty Lowy, 6-2, 6-2. Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood rounded out the singles victories with easy wins over Mark Selden and Andy Ingersoll...
...Hicks at number two is the only other returning letterman in the Jeffs' top six; he lost to Tim Gallwey last spring and will face the varsity's Bob Bowditch this afternoon. Gallwey, playing third for the Crimson, will probably meet Amherst sophomore Marty Lowy, and Fred Vinton, at number four, will play Chris Grose, another sophomore. Jorge Lemann and Bill Wood, fifth and sixth, play Andy Ingersoll and Paul Dodyk respectively...
Against Yale, Amherst took exactly three games in the third through sixth singles matches, so everyone below Bowditch will face inexperienced opposition and will not find much difficulty...