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Number one man Bob Bowditch, unbeaten against New England competition, heads the Crimson delegation and will be favored to take the singles championship he won as a sophomore two years ago. Last year at New Haven, Bowditch went to the semi-finals before losing to Yale's Donald Dell...
...Bowditch's principal rivals for the singles title will be men he has already beaten this year--Williams' Clyde Buck. Dartmouth's Ron Picket, Yale's Ralph Howe. Other possibilities are Peyton Howard of Brown. Yale's Bob Hetherington, and the Crimson's own Paul Sullivan, who played some of his best tennis of the year in defeating Hetherington in the Harvard-Yale match Wednesday...
...doubles, Harvard will also have the likely favorite, the pair of Bowditch and Sullivan, unbeaten against...
...Crimson needed only one doubles match to clinch the win in Eastern League scoring and got the victory at number one, after Yale's Hetherington and Parry had taken the second doubles, 7-5, 6-1, from Walter and Martin. In the first doubles match, Bowditch and Sullivan won a fairly easy first set from Howe and Phipps, 6-2, breaking Howe in the first and last games...
...second set, however, the Eil pair started off with two quick service breaks for a 3-0 advantage, which Bowditch and Sullivan made up by breaking Phipps in the fourth and eighth games. The match then followed service until Bowditch lost his service to give Howe and Phipps a 7-6 lead. Here the Crimson team staged an impressive closing rush, breaking Howe at love to come even and breaking Phipps, also at love, to take the match...