The varsity tennis team, in two away matches over the weekend, easily defeated Brown Friday, 8 to 1, but dropped a close match to powerful Princeton on Saturday, 9 to 6. The split gives the Crimson an overall 8-6 record and a league showing of 5 won and a league showing of 5 won and one lost.

The 9-6 loss to Princeton, which has won seven straight this year, was the closest the varsity has come to beating the Tigers in over 20 years. Conrad Fischer, at three, turned in the Crimson's best performance, upsetting squash star Roger Campbell in singles and also winning in doubles. Ben Heckscher, at seven, and Steve Kay, number nine, gained the only other varsity victories in singles.

The Crimson's much-improved doubles teams won three out of the five matches. Dan Mayers and Fischer swept past Ralph Stuart and Walt Milbourne at three, 6-3, 6-1, and Maynard Canfield and Karl Purnell, playing four, downed Dick Daniels and Pete Pressinger. At five, Steve Kay and Ian Gianetti beat Dan O'Connor and Pete Lieph in straight sets.

The freshman team added its second and third victories of the season by defeating Brown Friday, 9-0, and Andover Saturday, 7-2.

The varsity singles results against Brown follow:

John Houk (B) defeated Ham Gravem, 6-2, 6-3; Alex Haegler (H) defeated George Kirkpatrick, 3-6, 10-8, 8-6; Conrad Fischer (H) defeated Nat Greene, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Brooks Harris (H) defeated Webb Ray, 7-5, 7-5; Dan Mayers (H) defeated Larry Waterman, 6-2, 8-6; Maynard Canfield (H) defeated Ian Sinclair, 6-2, 6-8, 9-7.