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Libby Pierpont described it best. "We got zonked," and that just about says it all, as the racquetwomen from Dartmouth whitewashed the Crimson 9-0 yesterday afternoon in Palmer Dixon...
Crimson tennis player Andy Chaikovsky likes to respond to excuse-makers with an old Ukrainian saying his father taught him: "If grandmother had wheels, she'd be trolley car." During Harvard's showdown match with powerhouse Princeton at the Palmer Dixon courts yesterday, there were enough "ifs" and excuses to form a fleet of trolley cars. But unfortunately for the Crimson, most of the close matches got away as the Tigers clinched the Eastern League tennis crown with a 7-2 victory...
Harvard's other super-frosh, second singles man Don Pompan, found the going tougher. Playing some of the best tennis seen at Palmer Dixon this year, Pompan nevertheless took one on the chin when Tiger co-captain came alive and "zoned" late in the third set, brilliantly reeling off five of the last six games...
...most popular component of the men's tennis team's vocabulary this spring. If the '78 version of Harvard tennis is to establish itself as an unbelievable squad, however, the racquetmen will have to pull off an outrageous upset over powerhouse Princeton at 2 p.m. today on the Palmer Dixon courts...
...through 22 remarkable years on the tour and brought him 114 victories. This season may turn out to be the best of all. He is, to begin with, 42 years old, an age when most great golfers are faltering, if they have not already collapsed. At 42, Arnold Palmer, for example, won no tournaments on the circuit and fell from third to 25th in earnings. But despite his years, Player this season came from seven strokes back to win the Masters. The next Sunday, he made up seven strokes to win the Tournament of Champions. The Sunday after that...