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Five Crimson squash players, Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, Larry Sears, Charlie Hamm, and freshman Gerry Emmett, reached the quarter-finals of the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament in New York last week...
...Heckscher eventually won, defeating Sears, 3 to 0, in the finals. In the semis, Sears defeated Yale's number one man, Harvey Sloane, and Heckscher topped Hamm. Sears turned in his top squash performance to date by toppling the number one men from Williams, Yale and Dartmouth on his way to the final. Hamm accounted for Princeton's top man, while freshman Emmett beat Yale's number two player Ed Meyer...
Against these teams, Coach Jack Barnaby will rely heavily on his top five of Captain Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, Larry Sears, Charlie MacVeagh, and Charlie Hamm. As Barnaby puts it, "Here are five men who should be outstanding this year...
...Heckscher needs no introduction. In his third year as number-one singles, he is playing better than ever. He is currently ranked number seven in the United States and is the Intercollegiate Champion. Only Diehl Mateer and Henri Salaun can be expected to beat him in national competition, and recently in the Ticknor-Glidden Round-Robin, Heckscher had a 2-0, 9-2 lead on Salaun, before the ex-national champion could rally to a victory...
These five are expected to carry the brunt of the Crimson attack this year, and since four of them are returning lettermen, MacVeagh, Place and Heckscher being the top three on last year's team, Coach Jack Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of repeating last year's championship performance...