"I hope the tennis team will be half as good this year as the squash team was." Jack Barnaby, who coaches both squads, says he has no aspirations for another national championship this spring. He does expect, however, to have an "eager, more experienced team" by the time the Yale match comes around.

Barnaby has plenty of obstacles in his path before he turns out an even good team. Three of his first four players are sophomores, a title which usually denotes inexperience. Furthermore, one of these, Dave Watts, has already injured a tendon in his leg, which will keep him out of the team's annual southern trip during spring vacation.

Four others of the first ten on the team will not be able to go to the sunny southland because of studies and other reasons. Paul Tobloas, Mitch Reese, and Don Blackmer all are bogged down by thesos and other work, while Bayard Robb, a potential number three man, is out for baseball. Dick Myers, another sophomore who was expected to make the trip, also will not be able to go. In fact, Barnaby has been hard put to find ten players to accompany him.

Since Watts cannot go, Barnaby will be able to muster only two of his top three doubles teams for the season. Sophomores Charlie Ufford and Art French make up the first doubles, while Captain Bob Bramhall and Bill Goodman, a junior, will play in the second position. Gerry Murphy, who usually teams with Watts, will be matched with any one of four other members of the team for the third pair.

Those five will leave for the south and their first match of the season this weekend. Two more sophomores, Berke Johnson and Bill Harrington, will be among the six others Barnaby will take south. The remaining four are Chase Peterson, Charlie Thompson, Dick Becker, and Humphrey Doermann.

Barnaby expects that his fledglings will be defeated when they face the strong southern teams which have been working out for weeks. Though it has been playing on indoor courts on the top floor of the I.A.B. since basketball ended, the varsity still will probably be too soft to last long under the hot sun, according to the coach. "The matches will probably be similar to last year's routs, but we should improve a lot faster."

The team will face North Carolina, Davidson, and Navy on the trip. Following its return, there will be matches against the Harvard Graduates, Boston University, Brown, North Carolina, Columbia, Princeton, Williams, Pennsylvania, Army, Yale, and Brown, in that order.

When the squad returns, a lot of "Its" will still remain. If the weather keeps warm, and if everyone stays unhurt, and if the four first-stringers who did not go south work into shape soon, Barnaby hopes his "good" team will be good enough by May 22 to whip Yale.

The team won only one out of five contests last year with the single victory coming at the end of the trip at the expense of Army, five to four. The Crimson was able to take only seven out of 53 individual matches in the five contests.

The singles lineup, with the exception of Goodman, will have the same men who were at the top of the doubles. Ufford will lead off, followed by Bramhall, French, Watts, and Murphy. Paul Toblas will probably hold down the bottom spot on the six-man team.

In a ten-man match, like those against Yale, Reese, Blackmer, Dave Gordon, Goodman, and Peterson are the leading contenders for the last four positions.

The first thing a spectator notices about the squad is its height. Every one of the first six is at least six feet, with Ufford and French touching six feet four. Barnaby likes tall, hard-hitting, aggressive players, especially in doubles.

He also likes spirit and drive--a man has to really want to run to play tennis for him. Both Bramhall and Murphy are strictly Barnaby products--they only learned how to hold a racket the summer before they came to Harvard.

Ufford, French, and Watts all improved considerably after getting experience last year on one of the best freshman squads in years. All three have good serves, which they use very effectively in the doubles. Ufford and French won the Eastern Intercollegiate League freshman championship last year. Bramhall and Goodman also played together for the first time last spring, when the latter was raised from the ranks of the singles list.

With all this inexperience in varsity competition showing, Barnaby expects his team to get off to a slow start. "It may even disappoint some of the players," he says. But he thinks the potential which they have shown so far can be developed so that they may surprise even themselves by the end of the season. "I have no illusion about the present, but high hopes for the future" is a summing up of Barnaby's outlook for the season.