TENNIS

(1) Dartmouth 9, Harvard o. Coach Red Hoehn's versatile charges opened the season in a full-fledged blaze of glory by sweeping their first encounter against Harvard without losing a single match. In the first match, Paul Campbell at No. 1 defeated his opponent by the score of 6-4, 6-1. Captain John Gooding, playing temporarily in the No. 2 position, came through with a win by the score of 7-9, 6-0, 6-0, running out the match easily after a grueling initial set. Bert Rodman, playing No. 3, won his match, 6-3, 7-5, and the No. 4 man, Roy Carruthers, easily won by the topheavy scores of 6-0, 6-1. Nos. 5 and 6 on the Dartmouth singles hierarchy were Ed Jacobs and Bruce Ken worthy, both of whom came through to win, 6-2, 6-3 and 7-5, 6-3, respectively. In - the three doubles matches, the Dartmouth netmen continued their winning ways, with Renworthy and Eric Barradale defeating their opponents, 2-6, 9-7, 6-4, after a slow start. Ed Jacobs and Charlie Martus came out in front 7-5, 6-8, and 6-3. In the final match, Boardman and Boedtker also won. The current varsity is an unusual organization in more ways than one, with the majority of its topflight performers pushing into their middle twenties and the average age of the team (depending upon the composition of the first ten men) something over 22.5 years. This makes them the most venerable of any team in the recent history of Dartmouth College.

(2) Princeton 7, Dartmouth 2. Much to the shocked surprise of such clearly unknowledgeable observers as your correspondent, our greybeards could not stand the pace and dropped their next match (their first one away from home) to Princeton by a decisive margin. In this debacle, the Green was able to garner only two singles wins, those of Bert Rodman, playing in the No. 4 spot, and Bruce Kenworthy playing No. 6. Captain John Gooding, back in the No. 1 spot which he had temporarily relinquished to Paul Campbell, lost his match in straight sets 6-3 and 6-3. Paul Campbell likewise lost in straight sets, and Roy Carruthers went down by scores of 6-2, 1-6, 6-0. In the final singles match, Ed Jacobs managed to win one set, the totals being 6-1, 1-6, and 6-1. The Tigers took the doubles matches with considerable ease in straight sets. Apparently the boys are not such a good road club.

(3) New England Intercollegiates. With Captain John Gooding unable to make the trip because Marine regulations forbade such an extended absence, Dartmouth's efforts in the intercollegiates were largely confined to those of Roy Carruthers, who reached the finals before losing to Ray of Yale. This same performer also stopped Bruce Kenworthy in the quarter finals. The Yale doubles team also won the championship. The other Dartmouth men were eliminated earlier in the tournament, leaving Carruthers to carry on in the final match, which he lost in three sets 6-1, 6-1, 6-1.

(4) Yale 6, Dartmouth 5. Yale is reputed to have the best tennis team in the East and the Indians did themself proud the following Saturday by capturing three matches from them. The Elis won the first two matches, with Ray of Yale (winner of the New England Intercollegiates) defeating John Gooding, 6-1, 6-1, and Miller of Yale taking three sets to defeat Paul Campbell 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. Roy Carruthers won the first singles match for Dartmouth, defeating his opponent 6-2, 6-1. The other singles match won by the Green was taken by Jacobs, who edged out his opponent in three sets, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2. Yale won two of the doubles matches, with Rodman and Jacobs coming through to provide the only Dartmouth triumph by the score of 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.