TENNIS

With the first complete postwar season coming up, Coach Red Hoehn is in the pleasant position of having more veteran tennis players than he knows what to do with. He can only take six men on a trip and has almost twice that many who might well make the team in any other year. While the events of the season may not actually bear out this rosy prognostication, nevertheless at the moment there appears to be a good deal of talent, most of it returning from the wars.

First in this department is Roy Carruthers, who captained the squash team after returning in the winter semester to take up house-keeping with his charming wife in Middle Fayerweather. As careful readers of this column may remember, Roy had a distinguished war record, climaxed by his navigating the big bomber which took General Mac Arthur out of the Philippines. John Gooding is a local boy who is one of the best junior players in New England. A Marine, John played last year at Dartmouth and in this his last season he is expected to perform even more brilliantly. Eric Barradale '44 was the No. 1 man on his freshman team back in the far-off days of 1940, before he and practically everyone else went off to war.

Others from whom Coach Hoehn can draw are John Chambers '45, Ed Jacobs '47, Bruce Kenworthy '45, Bert Rodman '49, and a number of others. These men have been so anxious to play tennis that they have been down on the courts on some of the most disagreeable days a fickle Hanover spring can turn out, batting the ball back and forth in sweaters, flannels, and towels around their necks to keep warm. The combination of such spirit, plus the not inconsiderable array of proved talent, should augur well for the season.