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Elsewhere on the ladder, however, the Crimson experienced little trouble. Sophomore Dave Fish upended Lion Larry Parsont at number two, junior Joe Cavanagh breezed past Lloyd Emanuel at four, and Crimson captain Butch Kawakami defeated John Tilney at six to send Harvard into the doubles matches with a safe 4-2 lead...
...pivotal matches today could well be at third and sixth singles, the only positions on the ladder where there is significant doubt of superiority on either side...
...junior Lioyd Emanuel returning from the starting Iadder that lost to Harvard, 9-0, at New York last Spring. But Seewagen, a ranking U.S. amateur champion who hopes to build Columbia into an Eastern powerhouse and has the freshman team with which to do it, has stocked his ladder with four fairly good sophomores, and has achieved encouraging results so far this season...
...Tigers are incredibly strong at the top of the singles ladder, boasting the two top players in the EITA in senior Bobby Goeltz and sophomore Bill Colson, and have quite impressive depth. Harvard's only chance of a victory, it appears, lies in its ability to sweep the matches low on the ladder, take the second doubles contest, and pray for either rain or darkness to move the matches inside, where the tricky, somewhat harder clay courts should work to the Crimson's advantage...
...even if Harvard might be able to slip by Princeton on determination, depth, and guts, the return of senior Rich Howell to the number-three position on the ladder might doom the Crimson's hopes, Howell, who played at number two last year, has missed the last week-and-a-half of competition because of a National Guard hassle that kept him shuttling between the college and Atlanta, but he will definitely play this weekend, much to the Crimson's disadvantage...