Tennis
The high point of this (or any other) tennis season was the defeat administered by Coach Red Hoehn's spirited charges over a heavily-favored Yale team. The defeat was decisive, 6 matches for Dartmouth to 3 for the Yales. As frequently noted in this column, the great college tennis players are already largely developed in prep school and tend to gravitate by a "natural" educational process to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Dartmouth thus can rarely hope to defeat the top-ranking members of these aggregations and must rely on overall depth and fight to win a match. This is exactly what they did in this case.
By way of illustration of this point, the number one man for Dartmouth, Tom Allen, was defeated 6-4, 6-4 by his opposite number. Playing at number 2, Captain Bill Randall was beaten by the score of 6-2, 6-2. Then the next four singles matches were pulled out by the Green. Bill Bullen defeated his opponent by 4-6, 8-6, 6-2, after a shaky start. Albie Collins, playing at number 4, won his match 6-3, 6-2, and was followed by Mendy Balkin with a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 victory. The final singles victory of the day was won for Dartmouth by Bill Crotty by the score of 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.
The Green was thus leading by 4-2 when they went into the doubles, and needed only one doubles victory to win the match. This was accomplished twice over for good measure, with Albie Collins and Doc Dey winning 2-6, 6-0, 6-1, followed by Bill Randall and Mendy Balkin in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. The final doubles match was between the number one doubles teams, with Tom Allen and Bill Bullen on the firing line for Dartmouth. They won the first set, but were nosed out in the final two sets to lose the match 0-6, 6-3, 8-6, after putting up a heroic struggle. By that time, however, it didn't really matter and Dartmouth won the match 6-3 for an epic victory.
A SUCCESSFUL SEASON for the Dartmouth tennis team was climaxed May 3 in Hanover with a 6-3 victory over Yale. The Green courtmen shown with Coach Red Hoehn are (I to r) Mendy Balkin, Crotty, Albie Collins, Bill Randall, Tom Allen and Bill Bullen.
