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LINING THEM UP

Experience and Inexperience

Freshman squash coach Corey Wynn was pleased. He had finished his instructing for the day at Hemenway Gymnasium and was sipping his ever-present Coke in the coaches' room, talking about his favorite subject, freshman squash. "A lot of experience at the top and a lot of inexperience at the bottom," he reflected.

Somehow these two factors add up to overall strength, for the Yardlings have won their first two intercollegiate matches handlly and beast a record of three wins and one loss in the tough Metropolitan Squash "B" League.

However, a series of rough away matches at Exeter, Williams, M.I.T., and Yale is coming up in the next two months, with only one home match, Exeter, this Saturday afternoon, to lighten the burden.

The top five Crimson players all had at least two years of prep-school experience. Number one man, Charlle Hamm, was captain of his prep-school varsity last year and is now one of the top players in the University. He has tremendous power off both sides, knows how to make all the shots, and uses his head while on the court. Varsity coach Jack Barnaby said that Hamm is "definitely mid-varsity callber."

Second man, Tom Lee, also relies heavily on power but needs more consistency to polish up his game. In the third alot, Pete Lund counts more on the placement-touch game and needs to develop some more speed in his shots. Fourth and fifth players, Kent Allen and Fred Byron, both need to improve their racquet work and develop a faster start.

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These are the five top men who comprise the successful Squash "B" league team.

The bottom five men, who make up the "D" league, all had little or no match experience previous to this year. However, Wynn is very pleased with the fine spirit which the group has shown throughout the season and feels that the players are "really coming along on their fundamentals." Barnaby echoed this sentiment when he said that "the boys have made a lot of progress and should provide some good varsity material if they continue to develop."

This second five of Peto Stone, Jeff Eaton, Walter Blanchard, Ed Wade-worth, and Ned Wold has won all its intercollegiate individual matches.

Of course, it is impossible to predict anything this early in the intercollegiate season, but with two wins and a little confidence under their belts the freshman squad, says Wynn, "certainly looks promising."

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