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...contest with Yale is always the highlight of any varsity season. In recent years, however--particularly in such sports as tennis, squash and swimming--the concluding match with the Elis has also often decided Eastern League and Big Three championship races. The current tennis campaign, which starts next Wednesday with a match against M.I.T., is likely to follow a similar pattern, for coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity and its Yale counterparts again stand out as the two top teams in the East...
Below Bowditch, the present singles alignment has junior Tim Gallwey, whom Bowditch beat in a test match during the spring vacation trip at number two, with Weld playing third. Junior Fred Vinton is at fourth singles and pairs with Gallwey at second doubles. Lemann and senior Bill Wood, the sixth singles man, make up the third doubles pair...
...tour's only loss--to Presbyterian, 7 to 2, last Saturday--was influenced to some degree by special circumstances. The Varsity had whipped its Clinton, S.C., hosts by 6-3 the day before and was scheduled to leave for home immediately after the second match Saturday morning. Therefore, coach Jack Barnaby said, "the boys were more anxious to hit the road than to hit the tennis ball...
Also, the pairings Saturday were reversed, with the Varsity's number one man facing the Presbyterian number two man. Other switches were made to avoid duplicating Friday's match. For these reasons, Barnaby claimed that Presbyterian's Saturday triumph can be partially discounted...
...result of the tour, the doubles situation has now cleared up considerably. The newly formed combination of Weld and Bowditch is improving steadily, and came very close to winning at number one against Presbyterian. They beat out last year's second pair of Gallwey and Vinton in a special match at Clinton last Tuesday. Lemann and Wood, at number three, looked quite good, although playing against weak opposition...