Large, Lusty Youth

The success of the Harvard undergraduates in the squash racquet courts is one more bit of distressing news to their elders that youth will be served in sports. There was a belief a few years ago, when men with hair a little sparse were setting the pace, that the game offered an exception to the rule that youth and vigor usually triumph in vigorous competitive pastimes. The argument ran that a boy of twenty was not canny enough to excell, that many years of ripening experience were essential. When Hewitt Morgan became state and almost national champion a while ago, the elders talked of freaks and all that. But last year, the Harvard youngsters won the class A championship. They will win it again this season. The professional coach who used to instruct the Harvard Club players found more plastic material in Cambridge: youth is always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop out of the league. Are the older men never to drain the sweet cup of victory? . . . . --Boston Herald