Tennis Team to Face Penn In Tough League Contest

The Penn tennis team is loaded this year. Despite as injury to number one player Bailey Brown the Quakers have swept through their first four matches and will probably give Harvard its roughest competition since its Southern tour today.

Coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson squad brings a much-revised lineup into the Penn match. Two varsity players dropped test matches last week; number six man Dean Peckham lost in straight sets to Sandy Walker, who has played impressively all spring, and Vic Niederhoffer dropped Frank Ripple from the number two spot in a three-set match.

Everyone on the team will have to play well today if the Crimson is to beat Penn.

It seems likely that Brown will be ready for the Crimson; he was scheduled to face Columbia last Saturday but a recurrence of his injury kept him out. If Brown is ready, Niederhoffer will face Penn's John Reese in the number two match.

Penn's Richie Kolker showed he was out of his depth at number two by almost losing to a weak Columbia player Saturday. He'll be playing number three against Harvard but Ripley is as good as most number two men and should win. At number four the Crimson's steady Doug Walter goes against Quaker captain Tom Eselroad.

Harvard's chum steels faces Maurice Hecksher in the number five match, and Walker will play John Stein at number six.

After playing the Quakers, the team travels to New York to meet a weak Columbia team Saturday.