Tennis Team Conquers Engineers, 7-1

Neither said, nor wind, nor the darkness of an overcast Cambridge afternoon stopped the Crimson tennis team from walloping M.I.T. 7 to 1 yesterday.

With the mercury near 40 degrees and a gusty wind raking the courts, Harvard swept all six singles and one doubles match, although coach Jack Barnaby took his top two teams out of the doubles.

In the closest singles match of the afternoon. Captain Paul Sullivan outlasted the Engineers' best, Bent Aasnaes, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

The 5 ft., 4 in. Sullivan chased Aasnaes' powerful volleys all around the backcourt, frustrating the tall Norwegian with a brilliant retrieving game. Time after time the Crimson's captain fired forehand passing shots past Aasnaes, the third-ranked player in last year's New England Intercollegiate Tournament.

In the final set Sullivan raced off to a 4-0 lead before the left handed Engineer swept four straight games to draw even. Each man won another game, then Sullivan held his serve after the game went to deuce six times.

In the final game Aasnaes drew out to a 40-15 lead, but Sullivan fought back to win the next four points and the match.

The other on the team had an easier time, winning in straight sets. Frank Finley overwhelmed Marty Ormand, 6-2, 6-0 in the number two match.

Squash star Vie Niederhoffer tripped Jack Moter 6-4, 6-3 at number three, and Doug Walter, number four, whipped Bob Blumberg, 6-0, 6-2.

Sophomore Chum Steele showed that he's back in form after his recent illness by amashing Terry Chatwin, 6-2, 6-1, and Dean Peckham won the number six match over Mike Long, 6-4, 6-3.

Four More Wins

In singles matches that didn't count towards the team score, Bob Inman blanked Bill Petrick, 6-0, 6-0; Sandy Walker whipped Ken Conney 6-2, 6-1; John Vinton tripped Jim Taylor, 6-1, 6-4; and Jim Gustafson crushed Jon Burkhardt, 6-1, 6-0.

Inman and Peckham smashed Ormand and Petrick, 6-3, 6-2 in the third doubles match, while Walter and Terry Robinson lost to Blumberg and Chatwick, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 at number two.

Walker and Vinton won the first set from Aasnaes and Moter in the number one match, but lost the second, 7-5 before the match was called on account of darkness.