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There will, however, be some interest in the outcome of the number one match; Harvard's Frank Ripley meets the Engineers" Bent Aasnes a tall Norwegian who was rated the third-best collegiate player in New England last year. In last year's M.I.T.-Harvard match, Aasnes dueled the Crimson's top player, Paul Sullivan, for two hours before losing...
...that point Ripley was a number two player, and later in the year he sank to number three. But this year he seems to have developed. He won four straight intercollegiate matches on the vacation tour, winding up with a 6-4, 6-3, demolition of Army's touted Walt Oehrlein...
...Frank Ripley, taking over the top position after playing number two last year, ripped off a 6-3, 6-4 win over the top Cadet, Walt Oehriein, Ripley won all three of his college's matches on the Southern tour that preceded the Army match, though he lost earlier in a match with Richmond's Country Club of Virginia...
...Ripley and Bob Inman, unbeaten in intercollegiate doubles competition, won the top doubles match, while Steele and Peckham took the second. Kileff and Benjamin lost the number three match...
...team, led by Ripley, Walker, and Inman, dropped a match to Presbyterian but went on to win over Clemson and Georgia and tie Georgia Tech, as Tom James and Terry Robinson provided steady play at the bottom of the ladder...