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Admirably managed by F. L. Foster, Jr. '42, Jack Barnaby's varsity tennis team gave Princeton's championship squad a run for its money last Wednesday in Tigertown. finally succumbing by 6-3. Captain Dave Burt and ex-Captain Langdon Gilkey each won their singles matches, and together they cleaned up in the first doubles. Said Coach Barnaby after the match, "Burt and Gilkey were O.K., but my eyes were on Foster. He's good...
...Sent for Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, arousing speculation that: 1) he would tell Bounding Burt to get busy, take to the road, if he wants to be President; 2) he was ready to anoint Mr. Wheeler as a Democratic Presidential possibility...
...Dave Burt dropped a 5-7, 8-6, 8-6 heartbreaker to Gillespie, and Gilkey fell before Brownstein 5-7, 7-5, 12-10, Palfrey lost, 6-4, 6-4 to Hardie. Veterans Chet Logg and Jack Stewart also lost but only after bitterly contested matches...
...three Crimson doubles combinations of Palfrey and Lyell, Gilkey and Burt, and Peabody and Stewart were not able to give the Southerners much competition...
...Varsity tennis squad is loaded with material this spring and may give the touring University of Miami outfit quite a struggle. The Southerners won a 7 to 2 team decision last year, but Harvard strength runs a bit deep now than it did a year ago. Captain Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Johnny Palfrey, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart are all on hand for their last year of play. Backing up that formidable group of veterans are Corey Wynn, Ross Lyell, and Homer Peabody...