Defending champion Ben Heckscher won the annual invitation intercollegiate squash tournament in New York on Dec. 24. He defeated Oliver Stafford of Williams, runner-up for the second straight year, 15-11, 17-14, 15-11, in the finals. Heckscher took the championship without the loss of a game.

Several days later, Heckscher bowed to Azam Khan in the first round of the National Open Squash Racquets Tournament by a 3-1 score. The one game which he won proved to be the only ray of hope for the United States squash delegation as Pakistan's famed pair of brothers. Hashim and Azam Khan, swept through the tournament with only this one game to mar an otherwise perfect record against all but each other.