Racquetmen Take ECAC Tourney; Levin Grabs 1st

Harvard's six tennis players at the Eastern Collegiate tournament at West Point last weekend did not fully live up to the official seedings, but the Crimson performed well enough to win the team championship anyway.

Penn finished behind Harvard in team standings, followed by defending champion Princeton.

Harvard's lone individual champion was sophomore John Levin, who won the Class "C" competition by defeating teammate Rocky Jarvis in the finals, 7-5, 6-3. Levin and Jarvis, playing in the number-one doubles spot for Harvard, reached the semi-finals before bowing to the eventual winners, John Kirkpatrick and powerful Charlie Hoeveler of Dartmouth, 6-4, 6-4.

Jarvis and Levin polished off Princeton's first team of Clinch Belser and Nick Kourides in the quarterfinals, 6-2 6-3.

Hoeveler won the "A" singles without a loss of set. Harvard's entries, Bernie Adelsberg bowed to Army's Pete Conway, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, while Gonzalez succumbed to Penn's Clay Hamlin, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1.

In the "C" doubles, top-seeded Adelsberg and Gonzalez lost in the finals to the Navy team of Cowin and Horne.

Harvard's Dick Appleby, top-seed of the "B" singles, was upset in the quarter-finals by Penn's Levin, 1-6, 9-7, 6-4, but Crimson captain Brian Davis reached the finals by beating Penn's Richie Cohen, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Appleby and Davis dropped their opening "B" doubles match to Cornell, 6-3, 7-9, 8-6, even though the Crimson team was the top seed.