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Sandy Walker dropped his number six match in two sets: Chum Steele, at number three, had to fight off match points is both the second and third sets before winning; and Dave Benjamin lost a set in the number two match...
There will be some rearrangements among those who are making the trip too. Sophomore Dave Benjamin, number four player just two weeks ago, defeated Chum Steele in a challenge match for the number two spot. Dean Peckham, a powerful junior, took the number six position away from captain Sandy Walker in another match (Peckham will be playing five and Walker six today, in Inman's absence...
That was the only singles win for Cornell. Chum Steele mopped up Bill Taylor, 6-2, 6-2, in the second match. Dave Benjamin whipped Pete Kortmann, 6-4, 6-2, at number three...
...number two match could be the day's most exciting or it could be a onesided romp. The Crimson's erratic Chum Steele, at times a player of dazzling ability and at times almost baffingly off form, was the only Crimson player to lose against Columbia, and he almost lost against Brown. Steele will meet a player as erratic as himself today in Penn's Bailey Brown, a gigantic, powerful, temperamental player...
...singles players won in straight sets except for number two man Chum Steele; he dropped the first set to the Bruins' Bob Higgenbottom before winning 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Steele's play seemed a bit lackadaisical at times, but he bore down to make up a 3-4 defecit in the third...