Varsity Squash Team Outscores Yale, 6-3

Harvard figured it would have to win the top five or six matches in order to defeat an undefeated Yale squash team last Saturday. Yale figured it would have to take the bottom five or six matches in order to beat a Crimson varsity which had been caught unawares on a trip to Navy and Princeton and thus had been established as an "underdog" in Saturday's contest.

Something had to give, and it was Yale.

The Crimson, with five brilliant intercollegiate players in the top five positions and an inspired Henry Cortesi at sixth singles, swept the first six matches, giving the varsity a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League with Yale and Princeton.

At first singles, captain Ben Heckscher closed out a superlative intercollegiate career by swamping Yale's Charlie Kingsley, 15-5, 15-4, and 17-16. Kingsley had come down with the flu Friday and was no match for the Crimson's intercollegiate singles champion, although it is doubtful if the score would have been much closer, even if Kingsley had been at his best.

Place Wins at Number Two

Yale's number two man, Harvey Sloane, fared little better as he bowed in three games to Cal Place, 15-10, 15-11, and 15-13. Place played his usually strong game, completely mastering the Eli captain-elect.

Larry Sears turned in what was perhaps the most impressive performance of the afternoon at third singles. Playing with his injured ankle tightly taped. Sears casually felt his opponent out in the first game, winning it 17-16 after trailing 2-0 in the deuce. He then proceeded to blast the Yale man, Bill Barhite, off the court, 15-5, 15-3, in the next two games. Sears' smash service couldn't have worked better, completely fooling Barhite on almost every point.

At fourth singles, Charlie Hamm disposed of Yale's captain, Ed Meyer, 15-10, 15-11, 8-15, 17-15. After dropping the first two games, Meyer came back in the third, aided by several lapses on Hamm's backhand drive. The final game turned into somewhat of a slugging match as Meyer hoped to force Hamm into errors off his hard serve, but the Crimson player held on nicely to win the match.

MacVeagh Wins in Three

In the fifth singles position, Charlie MacVeagh played hard, tough squash for the first two close games, and finally wore Ron Ragen down to take the last one handily, winning the match 18-16, 18-17, and 15-9. MacVeagh made use of his excellent low, cracked crosscourt to keep his opponent constantly on the move.

Perhaps the most heartening win for the Crimson came early in the match, when Cortesi won his sixth singles match from Yale's Bob McCoy in four hard-fought games, 17-16, 15-17, 15-11, and 18-15. McCoy, characterized by one of his teammates as "a human backboard," was one of Yale's so-called sure wins, since he had been undefeated at his position up until the Harvard match, and Cortesi's win over him, gave the team a strong push towards victory.

Yale Takes Bottom Three

Even in defeat, Yale's strongest point did not fail. The bottom three players, who had played second, third and fourth singles behind Kingsley on last year's Eli freshman squad, all came through with four-game victories. John Oettinger downed Pete Lund, 5-15, 15-11, 18-14, 15-13; Mait Jones defeated Hank Holmes, 18-14, 11-15, 15-7, 15-8; and Ash Eldredge won from Bob Hartley, 15-10, 15-12, 12-15, 15-12.

In the freshman match, the Yardling squash team ended its season undefeated by topping Yale, 5 to 4. Captain Gerry Emmet had his undefeated skein broken by the Elis' top player--on both freshman and varsity squads--Sonny Howe, 3 to 1