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Niederhoffer played brilliantly to reach the semifinals. The Crimson captain obliterated former Amherst star Tom Owens, 15-3, 15-5, 15-5, beat New Yorker Bill Tully 15-5, 15-12, 15-12, and whacked Claude Beer 15-3, 15-2, 15-11 after Beer eliminated Canadian champ Smith Chapman...
Hecksher is back again this year, but the pre-tourney favorite has to be Henri Salaun, the four-time champ who has whipped every top amateur in the country this year...
Salaun is the only amateur to beat Vic Niederhoffer at any time this season. Neiderhoffer spilled Hecksher in a Massachusetts "A" League match; he has beaten former amateur champ Harry Conion, the tournament's fourth seed, twice. But he lost to Salaun in the Middlesex Bowl Tournament over Christmas vacation, and again in the Cowles Invitational in New York just after exams...
Penn should beat Yale Saturday and Princeton next month, to win the champ-Yale and Princeton, both 3-4. (The Elis' fourth loss will be at the hands of Harvard...
...league tournament, Niederhoffer, the defending champ, tripped teammate Romer Holleran 2-0 to make the finals. Holleran, number two man on Harvard's 1960 Ivy champions, left Harvard for three years to join the Army. He'll become eligible again in a week and should take over the number two spot on the team...