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...magnificent team effort, but if heroes must be singled out, Dave Benjamin and Captain Dean Peckham get top honors. They kept Harvard in the match by winning their singles, and then played even more inspired tennis in the doubles...
Harvard's most likely win is at four. Crimson captain Dean Peckham faces Lee Rawls, whom he blasted 6-0, 6-1 last year. Rawls had missed three weeks of practice prior to the match, but Peckham's serve would have been too sharp for him anyway...
...Peckham and Steele have the guns all over Jennings and Rawls, and should control the attack. In the number two doubles, Harvard sophomores Brian Davis and Dick Appleby, though very aggressive, will be under considerable pressure against oldtimers Daane and Lemons, winning third doubles last year against Benjamin and Kileff had little trouble Magill, but Smith, his new partner, will add some needed power to the combination...
Clive Klieff and Dean Peckham will be playing in the three and four spots to lay. Both won in straight sets last year...
Harvard will have to win at least two of the doubles. Steele and Peckham won at one last year in a tense match over Brown and Reese, but Kileff and Benjamin dropped number three. Harvard can expect a split here...