SUCCESSFUL SEASON IN TENNIS

Although handicapped by the graduation of all but two of last year's players, the University tennis team has had an unusually successful season to its credit. New men filled the vacant places and the team won nine of its twelve matches, ending the season with an 8 to 1 victory over Yale.

On the Southern trip during Easter vacation the team showed that it was already a well-balanced and strong combination by winning all six of its matches. Of the individual matches, only seven out of thirty-four were lost. During the trip Captain R. N. Williams 2d, '16, who has been undefeated in singles this season, and W. Rand, 3d, '17 won all of their matches. G. C. Caner '17 was defeated only once and L. Curtis, 2d, '16 twice. Caner and Williams lost once in the doubles and Curtis and Rand three times.

The University team defeated the Agawam Hunt Club at Providence on Monday, April 19, 4 matches to 2. The next day it won all the singles against the Philadelphia Cricket Club, rain preventing the playing of the doubles. On Wednesday, the University players won from the Naval Academy, 5 to 1. The Chevy Chase Club of Washington was then defeated on Thursday by the same score. Again on Friday the University team repeated the above score in defeating the Norfolk Country Club. In the final match of the trip on Saturday, the Baltimore Country Club was defeated, 4 to 2.

First College Games Won.

The University team showed great strength in its first matches with other colleges, scoring shut-outs of 6 to 0 against Amherst on May 1 and 9 to 0 against Dartmouth a week later. The latter game marked the eighth straight victory of the team.

In Cornell, however, the University team struck a snag on May 15, and lost its first contest of the season, 6 to 3. Captain R. N. Williams, 2d, '16 and W. W. Mansfield '15 won in the singles, and Williams and Caner secured a victory in the doubles. The match with Pennsylvania, scheduled for May 21, had to be cancelled on account of rain. On May 25, Princeton took 7 of the 9 matches. The game had been postponed twice, and the University players had had no practice to keep them in form. Williams made up for his defeat in the intercollegiates last year, however, by beating G. M. Church, Princeton's captain, 7-5, 6-0. Rand also won, defeating Van Deventer, 6-2, 11-9, in the singles.

The Longwood Cricket Club proved too strong for the University on May 27, winning 6 to 3. Williams defeated N. W. Niles '03, 6-3, 7-5. Caner won his singles match over A. S. Dabney '10, and in the doubles Williams and Caner defeated Dabney and Niles.

The University team ended its season brilliantly by defeating Yale in a decisive fashion on May 29. Only one match of the nine counted for the Elis, that being lost by Curtis. Such an overwhelming victory was hardly expected after the Cornell and Princeton matches, and supplied a fitting climax of a successful season.