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Sleepily squirming into their warm flight jackets, the students straggle below for a muster. A quarter-mile run around the barracks gives them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very...
Those five can hold their own with almost any sort of opposition, and the Barnabymen are usually able to sweep the last few matches. This team is almost as strong in the last three positions as it is in the first three. Sophomore Decker Orr is one of the hardest-hitting players Harvard has had in years and literally whales a rival into submission. Another great second-year man, Sandy Parker, comes next on the list. He is tireless, has a sound game, and only lacks a complete supply of finesse shots before becoming a topnotcher. Dave DeKruif, a Senior...
Captain Don Marvin, playing the number five slot, whipped Princeton's Wellington, in what Barnaby called, "the best win I can remember for Don." Decker Orr and Sandy Parker easily won their sixth and seventh place matches...
...first string, and a substantial reserve strength bolster the expectations of the racquet-wielders from Cambridge. The nine men who are wearing the Crimson for the weekend's battles are southpaw Gene Nickerson, Sonny Lyell, Galen Felt Stretch Baker (six feet seven in his stocking feet). Captain Don Marvin, Decker Orr, Sandy Parker, Dud Palmer, and Doug Cochrane...
Captain Don Marvin had one of the best days of his career and whipped Wolff of Williams, 15-4, 15-3, 17-16. Decker Orr at number five whaled Hemphill into submission, 15-12, 15-9, 15-5. Sandy Parker ran through Schmidt, 15-7, 15-10, 15-7. Dave DeKruif was pressed a bit more but also won in three games...