Dartmouth Netmen Have Energy Crisis While Crimson Powers to a 6-3 Win

Civilization finally reached Hanover, N.H., yesterday when Harvard gave Dartmouth a lesson on the delicacies of tennis by outclassing the Big Green 6-3.

"We wanted to get through this match without wasting any energy that we might need on Saturday against Yale," Harvard coach Dave Fish said after the match.

The Don Pompan energy conservation program called for a moratorium on the John Steel power thrust as the Crimson sophomore blasted his way to a 6-3, 6-4 victory at first singles.

Last year when the two met, Pompan found himself on the near suicide-side of a 5-4 tiebreaker in the third set. This year, however, there was little question who was alive at the end of the match.

"Don swamped him," Fish said, adding, "He was march sharper than Steel." (No pun intended.)

Scott Walker experienced a power failure in the middle of his match at number two singles but was restored in time to defeat the Big Green's Doug Walbridge 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.

"Walker made up his mind to beat the guy and came back strong," Fish said yesterday.

Harvard's Andy Chaikovsky, who played in the number two spot against Columbia last weekend was forced to watch the singles matches due to a shoulder injury.

Another change in the line-up featured Greg Kirsch, who since the winter season has worked his way from the number 13 spot to the fourth singles slot where he turned on the tennis and turned off Dartmouth's Mark Jeffrey 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.

After the first set it appeared that Jeffrey would repeat last year's win over Kirsch; especially since the mountain man's passing shots hit on the mark. But the Crimson junior changed his strategy and took advantage of Jeffrey's relatively weak approach shot to pull him into the net before giving Jeffrey a taste of his own medicine by passing him, Fish said.

Jim Curley also needed three sets to dispose of his opponent in an ulcer-provoking match.

After capturing the first set with a bagel job. Curley dropped the second set to Dartmouth's Larry Wolfe in a tiebreaker.

In the third set Curley pulled to a 5-0 lead and it looked like he was going to have another delicatessen breakfast, but the Big Green took four games in a row before Curley could lox up the match.

Crimson captain Kevin Shaw dropped a three-set heartbreaker and Dartmouth's Mark Schneider just edged out Bob Horne in the second set of the number three singles match.

The highlight of the doubles matches occurred when Kirsch and Horne came back from two break points in the second set to turn the tables and break Walbridge and Scott five out of the next six times to win the third and decisive set.

The team of Shaw and Walker, however, had little difficulty disposing of the little green men in straight sets at second doubles.

Boasting a 13-4 season record (3-1 in the league), the Crimson racquetmen host archrival Yale Saturday at 2:00 at Soldiers Field.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

1 SINGLES--D. Pompan (H) def. J. Steel, 6-3, 6-4.

2 SINGLES--S. Walker (H) def. D. Walbridge, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.

3 SINGLES--M. Schneider (D) def. B. Horne, 6-2, 7-5.

4 SINGLES--G. Kirsch (H) def. M. Jeffrey, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

5 SINGLES--G. Hartman (D) def. K. Shaw, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

6 SINGLES--J. Curley (H) def. L. Wolfe, 6-0, 6-7, 6-4.

1 DOUBLES--Steel and Hartman (D) def. Pompan and Chaikovsky, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

2 DOUBLES--Shaw and Walker (H) def. Schneider and Jeffrey, 6-0, 6-1.

3 DOUBLES--Kirsch and Horne (H) def. Walbridge and Scott, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.