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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...
...June 30 four members of the tennis team will join three players from Yale in a trip to England to play a series of matches against a joint Oxford-Cambridge team. Right now the four Harvard players, (the fourth member will go as an alternate) include Burt, Gilkey, Palfrey, and Muther...
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...
...next three matches, however, were swept by the visitors, with Walt Muther, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart going down to defeat in straight set affairs. The Crimson due of Burt and Gilkey came through in two sets, 6-3; 6-4 over the number one Tarheel combination, but Palfrey and Muther lost. Art Brooks and George Goodwin dropped the other doubles bout...