Heckscher Beats Bacon to Capture Squash Title, 3-2

Saturday afternoon, Jim Bacon shovelled his car out of the snow in Beverly, Mass., raced to Hemenway Gymnasium, and proceeded to give Ben Heckscher, number one man on the varsity, his toughest match of the year.

Heckscher won the Foster Trophy, symbolic of the University squash championship, but not until Bacon had won the first two games of their three-out-of-five encounter.

Bacon's unorthodox strokes were working to perfection as he took the first two games, 15-12 and 15-10, from the top-seeded Heckscher. His crushing forehand and backhand wall shots and deceptive corner shots were too much for Heckscher, as all his power and finesse could not stop the third seeded Bacon.

But in the third game, the pressure proved too great for Bacon. His game noticeably deteriorated, as the touch which was evident in the opening games left him. His shots began to break out to center-court where Heckscher's drop shots would end the point. Also, Bacon's drop shots were not falling close enough to the front fall, and Heckscher was putting them away with little difficulty to win the final three games, 15-8, 15-9, and 15-5.

Whenever Bacon would draw close, he appeared to feel the pressure, lose command of his game, and fall behind again.