Squash Team Downs Cornell, 8-1; Four Players Shut Out Opponents

The squash team collected an 8-1 win over Cornell this Saturday, taking four of the individual matches in three games apiece, and losing only at the number two post.

Playing without two of the regular top five men, the Crimson varsity demonstrated its usual strength in the middle and lower positions.

At number one, Peter Smith needed only four games to overcome the Big Red's Pete Moeller, a player who reached the quarter-finals of the intercollegiate tournament this Christmas. Smith won the first game, 15 to 9, but his opponent, an excellent retriever who made very few mistakes, came back to stage a 15-13 triumph in the second.

Forced to use more risky shots, Smith took the last two games by 15-13 and 15-12, winning the match on a back-hand shot from the rear left corner that bounced immediately off the left wall, arching over to the right front corner for the put-away.

Against Cornell's second man, Hampy Howell had match point at 14-10 of the fifth game, but an incredible demonstration of pressure playing gave the Big Red's Rad Roberts seven straight points, and the match. The Howell-Roberts point scores were 6-15, 18-17, 14-17, 15-12, and 17-14.

The game featured a large number of lobs, and at one point Howell alternated lobs and short shots to win several points.

In the number three match, after Cornell's Don Rubell tied the score at one game apiece, Crimson captain Tony Lake abandoned a cross-court strategy for the drop shot, going on to win in four games.

Sullivan Wins Easily

With Doug Poole and Bob Schwartzman absent, Paul Sullivan was moved to the four position, where he won in consecutive games. Roger Weigand at five, Doug Walter at six, and Clark Grew at seven posted the Crimson's other three-game victories.

Alec McDonell dropped the first two games, 10-15 and 7-15, but won the last three by 15-8, 15-9, and 15-10 to tally the varsity's seventh win, and Mac Gordon triumphed in four games for the eighth. The team's next game is at home against Dartmouth this Saturday.