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...Ripley is by no means sure of his job. Chum Steele, a junior with enormous experience and a strong "big game," will press for the top spot all season long. Steele is also probably the squad's premier doubles player--he and Princeton's Keith Jennings are a nationally ranked team and he and classmate Dean Peckham won the New England Indoor Championship last month. The two juniors will probably fill the top doubles spot this year...
Harvard isn't that good but this Crimson squad isn't likely to play dead for anyone, including Princeton. There is strength at the top with Frank Ripley and Chum Steele, strength in the doubles lineup, and great depth, with five of last year's top seven players being joined by at least two high-calibre sophomores...
Probably the top man will be Frank Ripley, number two on last year's squad, and a finalist in the New England Intercollegiate championships for the last two years. A big-serve-and-volley player, Ripley took teammate Paul Sullivan to three sets in the New England finals before losing last year...
...doubles, Peckham and Steele are the top combination at the moment, with Ripley and Inman an uneasy second team--both players are more accustomed to playing backhand--and Kileff and Benjamin third...
...second best performance by a Crimson singles player came from Ripley, who lost out in the third round to eventual finalist Keith Barker of New York City...