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...Burt and Gilkey Are Mainstays...
...strength of Coach Barnaby's team centers mainly around the first two men, Dave Burt and Captain Langdon Gilkey, who also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina...
...Captain Gilkey possesses the most powerful strokes on the team and a rapidly improving not game makes him as strong a number two player as there is in the East. At the number three position is John Palfrey whose suddenly acquired control brought him victory in his last two starts. Right below him is his doubles partner, Walter Muther, who has jumped up from ninth position since last year by virtue of a fast all around game. Occasional erratic spells in his game are his only weakness...
Other leading Crimson netmen, Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey, did not enter the qualifying matches as they will be in England at the time of the finals representing Harvard and Yale against an Oxford-Cambridge net team...
Against Williams the Crimson presented a makeshift lineup since Walt Muther and John Palfrey were absent, but won as they pleased with Dave Burt and Captain Gilkey leading the way. Jack Stewart and Bill Everts scored the other Crimson singles wins, while all the doubles matches were swept by the Barnabymen...