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...racquetmen will take on powerful Columbia at Palmer Dixon tomorrow at 2:00 Along with Princeton, the defending Ivy League champions, Columbia is one of the two tough teams Harvard must still beat if they hope to win the title this year. The Crimson squad was demolished by Columbia last year when three of the first six in the lineup came down with the flu just prior to the match...
Here were the Crimson racquetmen, 4-2 on a southern swing, and, in the words of their mentor, "beating up their lesser opponents" upon their return north. Everything seemed to be falling into place, as Harvard prepared for its matches with the class of the Ivies, Columbia, Penn and Princeton. Then lightening, in the form of divine intervention of a negative sort, struck...
...good players" to whom Barnaby refers are captain John Ingard, Gary Reiner, Hugh Hyde, and Todd Lundy. These four should comprise the Crimson's top four racquetmen, and while the final positions are not yet set, as, in Barnaby's words. "the players are beating each other back and forth in playoffs," it is likely that Chip Baird, John Horne, and Jim Levi will round out the varsity squad, Out of this seven, six will be chosen to play singles in regular competition...
...yesterday, on the Hemenway courts, the Crimson racquetmen treated nine weary Bulldogs to another whipping they won't want to remember--a humiliating 9-0 defeat...
...ranked racquetmen played first; number one Pete Blasier, and fifth-and seventh-ranked Pete Havens and Steve Mead each lost in three games...