Racquetmen Descent on New York For U.S. Squash Championship Meet

With hardly a day to recover from Wednesday's match against Princeton, Harvard's varsity squash seem travels New York today for the U.S. Squash Racquets Association championships.

For the first time in several years, the Crimson will play on the five man needs paid rather then in the individual tournament. The other Crimson players will be Jose Gonzalez, Rick Sterne, Todd Wilkinson and Craig Stapleton.

They will be facing 22 other teams, composed of the best amateur racquetmen from colleges, elties regions, and countries. Several years ago, for example, Harvard lost in the finals to a man squad of Canada's outstanding players. Other college teams entered at Princeton and Navy. Ironically, Burr Gay, Princeton's top player who lost to Adams Wednesday, issue play in the individual competition since he won the New York Invitation Tournament over Christmas vacation.

Harvard has won seven championships since the tournaments incaption in 1963, the last time being 1942. The Crimson's chanced this year are slim, not because the team is week, but because the tournament is being held in New York.

Whenever the tournament is held in the big squash centers--New York. Philadelphia, and Boston--rather than in Detroit or some distant place, all the local stars can easily play. A New York team won the tournament last year, and one of the two New York teams should be favored again this year.

The Harvard team will be handicapped by the seemless ball. Which becomes quite a bit more heated and lively than the conventional green-dot ball as a match progresses.

Though the Harvard varsity has no one entered in the individual competition. one freshman, will be playing, along with Terry Robertson '63, who is now at the Harvard Law School. Two of the most likely candidates to dethrone defending champ Steve Vehlslaghe are Vic Niederholfer '64 and Bob Netherington, a third-year student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary.

Other contenders are Yale Graduates Ralph and Sam Howe and the ageless Henri Salaun.