College Returns To Court Tennis

Court tennis, absent from the College's athletic scene for 36 years, will return a week from this Saturday when an informal three-man team meets Yale at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club for the intercollegiate challenge bowl.

Yale reached the finals of the three team tournament by defeating Princeton, 2 to 1, last week in New York. The Crimson received a bye into the final round.

Playing for the varsity will be squash stars, Hadden Tomes, Mike Ward, and Bill Wister. Only Tomes has had any experience in the 700 year old sport.

Court tennis was introduced here in 1908, but the extremely complicated style of strokes the game requires of its players forced the abandonment of competition ten years later.

The high cost of court construction has stopped any upsurge in the game's popularity since then. A court tennis layout costs approximately $200,000, and there are less than five courts in the whole country.

The College's return to competition has been made possible by the Tennis and Racquet Club of Boston which has provided the team with facilities for practice.