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...Miami courier. "His acting was natural, unaffected, real." Some regretted the loss of great Phoenix roles: "I felt he got cheated and I got cheated," says John Pinto, 25, of Chicago. Other fans suspended belief. "I was waiting for him to come back to life," says Gabrielle Brechner, 17, a senior at Manhattan's Dalton School, "the way they always do in the movies." The shock arose less from the apparent stupidity of Phoenix's death than from the stanching of both a munificent acting gift and a winning screen personality...
Playing first doubles, Weld and Bowditch had a tight match with Brechner and Anderson, winning by 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. Behind 1-3 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair won three straight games and, with both their powerful services clicking beautifully, held on to break Brechner's service in the fourteenth game for the match...
Captain Ned Weld led off the victory with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Princeton's 6 ft., 4 in. Dave Brechner at first singles. Weld found Brechner's two forehands and long reach puzzling only in the first set, and once he had figured out the Tiger's game, the Crimson captain had a fairly easy time...
Pending the results of challenge matches to be played today, the varsity will line up as it has in the past few matches, with Captain Ned Weld at number one singles. He will meet Princeton's Dave Brechner. Weld has won four of his five matches at number one this year...
...match may well be decided if the singles are close as Barnaby fears and Conroy hopes, Weld-Bowditch, Lemann-wood and Gallwey-Vinton presently stand as the Crimson's first three pairs. Conroy expects to work with his doubles teams today, but says that he has been using Brechner-Anderson at number one, with Richardson-Hinkle at two and Scarff-Worth at three...