Golfers Meet Elis at Yale

Playing golf against Yale at Yale is quite an experience. Yale coach Al Wilson has won over 1000 matches in his career. He runs around the course with a walkie-talkie, receives scores from the matches being played and shouts orders to his three assistants.

Wilson, a pudgy man who doesn't like to lose, snorts and mumbles under his breath when one of his men is down in a match. He really hasn't had to worry about being down too much lately though--Yale is working on a 39-match winning streak. It would be nice, Wilson thinks, to make Harvard number 40.

The Crimson has not beaten Yale since 1957, and that victory was the first in more than 20 years. Last year, Harvard lost a horrible, heartbreaking match, 4-3, when the team's number seven man missed a two-foot putt on the second hole of a sudden death playoff.

Tougher

But this afternoon at New Haven Harvard will be better and tougher. The Crimson is riding a fine 11-1 dual meet record. The squad's only loss was to Penn in an upset, and the Quakers have already lost two matches and are effectively out of the Ivy League title race.

Harvard and Yale remain in the vortex of it, however, with undefeated Princeton a strong contender. The Crimson meets the Tigers after the Yale match, then Yale plays Princeton.

Today's lineup finds captain Bo Keefe (7-3 record) in the number one spot; Bruce LoPucki (8-3) at two; Tommy Wynne, three; Yank Heisler, four; Jack Purdy, five; Paul Oldfield, six; and Joe Tibbetts, seven.

Yale will have two of its top men returning from last year's Ivy champions, Jim Rogers and Jon Coles.