Squash Team Favored Against Cornell Today

If you want to see the Crimson squash team in action at Hemenway this afternoon, you'd better get there pretty soon after the match with Cornell starts at 2 p.m. It probably won't last long.

Last year Harvard demolished the Big Red in a 9-0 romp. The year before that the score was the same. Since 10 lettermen are back from last winter's squad, it wouldn't be at all surprising if Cornell failed to score this afternoon.

Of course, if the Crimson gets too confident and begins to look past today's match to the tough duel with McGill Saturday, Cornell might pick up some points. But It's scarcely conceivable that Harvard could lose this one--the team learned some valuable lessons about overconfidence when an unheralded Army squad almost bounced the Crimson last Friday.

In that one, captain and number one player Vic Niederhoffer won easily, but Army swept the second, third, and fourth matches and had three match points in the fifth. Only a great comeback by Johnny Vinton saved the match and the Crimson's unbeaten string.

So today's match should be little more than a warmup for the contest with McGill Saturday afternoon. Last year Harvard defeated the Canadian champs 6-3, but several of the matches went into five games. Coach Jack Barnaby expects the McGill match to be one of the two toughest the Crimson will face this year--the other coming in February against a Princeton team that's loaded with talented sophomores.

Coach Barnaby will be watching carefully the performances of Lou Williams, John Thorndike, and Terry Robinson. The three played soccer in the fall and all looked rusty at West Point; Williams and Robinson lost while Thorndike won in five games.