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...winning his first National Amateur crown, Heckscher had to overcome a long series of obstacles, foremost among whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
...former varsity captain did not give an inch under Salaun's expertly applied pressure, and took the match with a perfectly executed backhand corner shot at match point in the fifth game. In this game Hechscher appeared to be on his way to an easy win, as he took a quick 10-4 lead. But at this point the remarkable Salaun, tired and hampered by an injury, came back to win four points in a row, and after Heckscher duplicated this feat to make the score 14-8, he pulled out five straight match points to make the score...
...Truesdale, Jr. '44, committee chairman, gives top seeds in the annual tourney to Diehl Mateer, recent winner of the U.S. Open at Pittsburgh, and Henri Salaun, current national amateur champion. Both have dominated the last nine New York tournaments. Mateer has won five, and Salaun has won four times, including the last...
While Henri Salaun and Diehl Mateer are definitely the top two squash racquets men in America, Heckscher has moved up within striking distance of both. Several times in the past year, he has come within a hair's breadth of taking an important first win from one of them...
...Heckscher lost to Henri Salaun in the fifth game of the finals of the Middlesex Bowl Squash Tournament yesterday. Salaun, America's second ranked player, was forced to the limit before taking the final game, 15-13, from the Harvard captain...