Jack Barnaby's 1952 tennis squad will head for the South, Saturday, without the benefit of a single outdoor practice. All Barnaby says he's expecting is that "We may be playing good tennis--by the time we got home."

About 30 men have been working out for the last two weeks on indoor courts set up in the Blackhouse, but the Crimson coach has had no chance to make any final selections for his spring line-up. Most of the men who will take the vacation trip have been chosen as a result of play-offs among returning varsity and freshman players last fall.

The 14 touring Crimson players will meet North Carolina on Monday and Tuesday, April 1 and 2, and Davidson on Wednesday and Thursday. They'll take on Navy at Annapolis, April 6.

Captain Charlie Ufford, who played number one last year as a sophomore, is set for the first slot on the tentative squad, and is expected to maintain the position for the rest of the season. But the versatile racquets man from Lowell House will have to read just from a winter of leading the squash team, before he's really in top form.

The rest of the squad is hardly in better shape, although two of the tentative first four men are veterans of top positions on last year's team. Dave Watts, captain-elect of the squash team, will go at number three, while junior Art French, occasional number two, three, and four man last season, probably will take the number four slot.

John Raugh, captain of the '54 freshman team, moves in at the number two position on the varsity, at least for the tour. He'll have a tough job replacing 1951 captain Bob Bramhall, whose graduation is going to be the hardest for Barnaby to fill up.

Veteran Gerry Murphy is tentatively set for the fifth slot of the forthcoming spring tour, inasmuch as Gene Mann, a promising sophomore, number one on last year's freshmen, can't make the trip. Senior Bill Goodman is slated for six, and sophomores Terry King, Dom Spencer and Herb Stone for seven, eight, and ten. Steve Sonnabend, a junior transfer from Cornell, who was ineligible last year, looks like the number nine man. Senior Dick Beche, sophomores Frank Goodman. Mike Ward, and Junior Paul Trinichieri complete the trip list.

Barnaby says the doubles line-ups haven't yet been decided on, and he's going to do much experimenting on the tour. With four car-loads of promising but mainly untested material, Barnaby can well afford to experiment, if the team hopes to top last year's only fair record.

But even though Bayard Robb, Paul Toblas, Mitch Reese, and Hugh Nawn have graduated, Barnaby predicts his inexperienced team will have a good, if slow starting season.

"My boys think they're pretty hot," Barnaby says, "but I think we may take it on the chin for the first couple of matches. After that, there should be a sharp up-grade, and we'll do all right."