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...other hand how does it feel to hold yourself singly responsible for the biggest loss of the season? Circumstances--luck of scheduling, a contentious opponent--led to Spencer Brog's competing against Rich Zabel with all of the other matches off the court and the score tied...
...match the Harvard squash players scattered. Princeton had won, 5-4, when Rich Zabel came from way back in the last match of the day to beat Spencer Brog, and for the Crimson there was little solace...
Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive spirit, and the first three and a half games of the two New Yorkers' match filled itself with innumerable let calls and questionings...
When Brog won the first game in a tiebreaker, and took a close second game as well, Harvard was one stanza from victory. Just less than a full game later, they were one shot away, the score in game three tied at 17. Zabel was the one to execute it, however, a skimmer off the front wall, just out of reach of Brog's straining racket in the front left corner...
...Shepherd (P). def. Lemmon (H). 15-10, 5-15, 15-5, 15-10; 4. Reese (H). def. Barrett (P). 16-15, 8-15, 15-13, 15-10; 5. Duffy (H). def. Moore (P). 15-3, 15-11, 12-15, 12-15, 15-8; 6. Zabel (P). def. Brog (H). 14-15, 12-15, 18-17, 15-11, 15-8; 7. Evnin (P). def. Dinneen (H). 15-8, 15-12, 17-16; 8. Sherry (P). def. Lubowitz (H). 15-7, 15-12, 11-15, 11-15, 15-6; 9. Fisher (P). def. Johnson...