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...Dimaggio goes, so go the Yankees," sportswriters used to say, meaning that the big man had to produce to make a winning ball club. The varsity tennis team learned that to their regret yesterday, when the number one man, Captain Charlie Ufford, fell down in both his singles and doubles matches as the team lost (its first match in ten) a 5 to 4 heartbreaker to North Carolina...
...Ufford, who had rung up a remarkable performance against Davidson Monday to upset the visitors, was way off his game yesterday. It took spectacular play by his teammate, Bill Goodman, to extend the deciding first doubles match to even three sets, but the North Carolina duo of Del Sylvia and Sam Handel made fewer mistakes in the end and won going away...
Victories in the singles by John Rauh, Dave Watts, and Don Bossart kept the Crimson in contention early in the match. With the first two winning in straight sets at second and fifth singles, the varsity jumped off to an early lead. But Ufford and Gene Mann at four both lost in two sets, and though Art French at three looked for a while as if he would force his opponent into three sets, he ended up losing, 7-5, 3-6, to put the Crimson behind...
...Army yesterday, the Crimson won every match except the fifth singles, though John Rauh and Gene Mann playing two and four had trouble winning their matches in three sets. Captain Charlie Ufford at one, Art French at three, and Don Bossart at six all won in two sets...
Following Ufford will be John Rauh. Art French, Gene Mann, Dave Watts, and Don Bossart, Raub, Watts, and Bossart all won their matches against the strong Southern club...