Word: russ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon at Amherst, the Harvard and Amherst Varsity tennis teams will meet in an official match. In addition to the men who entered the college tournament, Coach Jack Barnaby will count on Russ Ellis, Howie Ezell, and Homer Peabody to participate against the Lord Jeffs...
...contests, however, were much closer than the score indicates. Four of the matches went to three sets and Russ Ellis even had match point on his Tiger opponent only to lose...
...Russ Ellis, at number two, dropped his match to Collins, Captain Sonny Lyell, at the third slot, lost to Larned; while Howie Esell dropped a long close three-set affair to Reade in the fifth singles match...
Harvard's Varsity tennis team meets Dartmouth on the Divinity Field Tennis Courts at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Harvard's entries will be Jim Jenkins, Captain Sonny Lyell, Homer Peabody, Orme Wilson, Russ Ellis, Howie Ezell, Don Daniels, and Aubrey Gould. Dartmouth's racquet-wielders include Harold Eckardt, Captain Stacy Hill, Arthur Cohen, Frederick Leopold, Lawrence Austin, and Charles Willis with Al Speare as an alternate. Harvard defeated M. I. T. 9-0, Columbia 7-2, St. John's 7-3, and lost to Army 6-3, while this will be the opening match for Dartmouth...
...Jenkins, playing Freeman in the first singles position, won a long three set match 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Russ Ellis gained a two set decision over katz in the second singles slot 6-4, 6-3, while Howle Ezell, the only other regular, who usually plays in the last singles position, defeated Herron...