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...Harvard team arrived about 12 noon. We were met by an employee of the N.A.A., who got in touch with the midshipman member of the reception committee, E. Hannon. We told him immediately that there was one Negro member of the squad. He made arrangements and the whole squad, including Mr. Alexis, ate in the large dining hall...
After lunch, a midshipman informed Coach Snibbe and myself that we were wanted in the office of the assistant to the executive, whose name was (we believe) Commander Davis. There we were told that it would be impossible to play Alexis against the Naval Academy. Next we met Commander Perry, graduate manager of athletics. He reiterated Commander Davis' statements...
Gordon Wiley took the 50 as expected in 24 flat, ahead of Ted McNitt and Lonnie Stowell. The 220, the 100, and the 440, however, were all one-two Crimson sweeps, with Captain Frannie Powers Art Bosworth, Bus Curwen, Frank Gorman and Stowell in the winning roles. Midshipman Jim Conger was expected to be troublesome in the distances so Gorman's victory over him for second in the quarter was something of a surprise. Curwen, of course, was an easy winner...
While Kovacs, more intent on horse play than tennis, was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Annapolis Midshipman Joe Hunt, McNeill streaked through to the final - beating along the way young Jack Kramer, the boy wonder of this year's tournament, who had defeated, earlier in the week, Topnotchers Gilbert Hunt, Edward Alloo, Sidney Wood, Henry Prusoff, Frankie Parker...
Seeded No. 2 was 21-year-old Joe Hunt, Annapolis midshipman, U. S. doubles player (with Jack Kramer) in the Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...