Word: salaun
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This morning Niederhoffer plays Sam Howe, whom he beat 3-1 in the Harry Cowles tournament. Yesterday Howe eliminated Jim Zug, 3-1, while most of the other top players--Sam's brother Ralph Howe, Canadian champion Smith Chapman, Charles Ufford '53, and Henri Salaun--advanced without difficulty...
This afternoon Niederhoffer will face the winner of this morning's Ben Heckscher-Harry Conlon match. Niederhoffer will probably win and face Henri Salaun in the finals at 11:30 Sunday morning...
...threatens to stop Niederhoffer--Henri Salaun. Salaun is on the other side of the draw from Niederhoffer, so the two will clash dramatically late in the tournament. National champion four times--more than any other player--Salaun beat the Harvard junior 3-1 in their only encounter this year, at the Middlesex Bowl tournament in December. But since then Niederhoffer, in the Massachusetts competition, beat Zug shortly after the Princeton graduate had upset Salaun, indicating that the Salaun-Niederhoffer match should be fantastic...
After the match Henri Salaun, one of the country's top players, easily defeated Morris and Paul Sullivan in practice games. Salaun is masterful at not letting his opponents guess where he will hit the ball, and hardly had to exert himself in the practice games...
...previously beaten Salaun, the national singles champion; Azam Khan, defending U.S. open champion; and Niederhoffer on two occasions, by convincing scores. This time Niederhoffer crushed Zug, giving the capacity crowd at Homenway a demonstration of perhaps the finest squash seen at Harvard. In an all-court match, Niederhoffer made several beautiful saves at crucial moments...