Tennis

It looks like another fine season on the tennis courts for Coach Red Hoehn's varsity squad. This spring Coach Hoehn has eight veterans and two strong sophomores on his squad and they demonstrated their early season strength by winning six of seven matches during the vacation trip.

The Big Green players opened the trip by dropping the University of Maryland, 5-0, in an abbreviated contest. Moving on to Washington, they met George Washington University in the opening round of play for the Cherry Blossom Tournament and lost a close 5-4 match. However, they rebounded to beat Georgetown, 6-3, and Lehigh, 8-1, in the remaining tourney games. Because George Washington had lost to Georgetown, the Big Green found themselves tied with George Washington for tourney honors. The committee settled this one nicely by awarding the trophy to the Indians on the basis that they had won more matches in the tournament than George Washington (18 to 17).

Dartmouth then went on to defeat the Byrd Park Team Club, 7-5, to shut out Randolph-Macon, 9-0, and drub a Navy team, in their first Eastern League encounter, by a 10-1 score.

The current Dartmouth lineup has Dick Hoehn playing number one, with Ron Picket ranked second, Jack McDonough third, and Bill McClung fourth. Opie Jones, Phil Langley, John Herrick, Nick Fenney, Larry Holden, and Al Stark follow in that order.

Hoehn and Picket team up as the number one doubles pair, with McDonough and McClung ranking second, and Opie Jones and Phil Langley third.

Coach Hoehn makes no bones of the fact that he has experience, talent and depth this year and feels his Dartmouth team has a good chance to get past Yale and Harvard and possibly win the Eastern Championships. They're off to a mighty fine start!