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...Burt and Gilkey Are Mainstays...
...strength of Coach Barnaby's team centers mainly around the first two men, Dave Burt and Captain Langdon Gilkey, who also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina...
...June 30 four members of the tennis team will join three players from Yale in a trip to England to play a series of matches against a joint Oxford-Cambridge team. Right now the four Harvard players, (the fourth member will go as an alternate) include Burt, Gilkey, Palfrey, and Muther...
Other leading Crimson netmen, Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey, did not enter the qualifying matches as they will be in England at the time of the finals representing Harvard and Yale against an Oxford-Cambridge net team...
Against Williams the Crimson presented a makeshift lineup since Walt Muther and John Palfrey were absent, but won as they pleased with Dave Burt and Captain Gilkey leading the way. Jack Stewart and Bill Everts scored the other Crimson singles wins, while all the doubles matches were swept by the Barnabymen...