HARVARD TENNIS STARS TO DEFEND TITLE FRIDAY

The Harvard indoor tennis team will defend its position as national intercollegiate team champion in the second annual Intercollegiate Indoor tennis tournament to be held Friday and Saturday at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, M. T. Hill '30, Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30, and E. B. Ward '30, will represent Harvard in the tournament. Coach H. L. Cowles will accompany the team to Ithaca.

Last year J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 won the Larned Cup in the singles play, and Harvard won the team trophy with a socre of 24 points.

In last year's tourney the Crimson competed against teams from Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Lehigh, Michigan, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Williams, and Yale. Representatives from Dartmouth, and Princeton were invited, but could not attend because of examinations. This year, however, Princeton will be present and promises real singles opposition in the person of Van Ryn, a member of the Davis Cup squad last year, and a strong doubles combination in Van Ryn and Appel, outdoor Intercollegiate titleholders. Yale and Williams are both strong, and as Coach Cowles remarked last night, "Harvard will have a hard battle to retain the title. But with Hill and Ingraham in the singles, and Whitbeck and Ward for doubles, Harvard ought to keep the trophy."

Coach Cowles also stated that the tournament will be speeded up this year by having two men in the singles and two in doubles instead of four in each division as formerly.

Coach Cowles, in discussing last year's tournament, pointed out that it was the third time Harvard had won a national tennis tournament in its opening year. The first instance was at the first national amateur lawn tennis tournament in 1881 when R. D. Sears '83 became national champion. The second time was in 1883 when Harvard won the first National Intercollgeiate tennis tournament in both singles and doubles matches