TENNIS

The tennis squad is rounding into shape under the skilled tutelage of the genial Red Hoehn, with approximately the same relative success as has attended their efforts in the past. Like it or not, Dartmouth seldom gets the material in tennis (or in such other genteel sports as golf and squash) to compete on anything like equal terms with the senior members of the Ivy League circuit. This year, for example, the team succumbed 9-0 at the hands of an expert Cornell squad, which may well go on to win the League championship. The next week, the Green racket wielders outdid themselves to take two matches from a perennially strong Yale aggregation. The Blue won the match as a whole, 7-2, this being the largest number of individual defeats they have suffered this year.

We may use the Yale match as a case study of the problems of the Dartmouth net team. Playing at number one for the Green, Captain Paul Campbell lost to the accurate placements of his Yale opposite number in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. Bert Rodman then went down to defeat at the hands of his opponent (who was the semi-finalist in the New York State championships last year) by the score of 6-0, 6-2. Arny Kramer of Dartmouth extended his opponent to three sets before going down to defeat 6-1, 5-7, 6-0. Bill Dey was no match for his op- ponent and went down 6-1, 6-2. Playing in number 5 position for Dartmouth, Dave Kurr won his match in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, and Jack Koeniger came through in three sets to win 6-8, 6-2, 6-1. In the doubles matches, the combination of Grant Tinker and Bob Jordan (who have been the most successful of the Green operatives in this department this year) were defeated 6-1, 6-0, and the other two combinations—Jim Myers and Bill Boardman and Park Taylor and Pete Irving—were licked by identical scores of 6-4, 6-2.