With the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League Championship in sight, the Harvard tennis team ran through Cornell and Army this weekend to extend its ague record to 7-0 and its regular season mark to 10-0.
Cornell crept into Cambridge Friday, stopping to better last year's 8-1 loss to Harvard. This time they got sapped, 9-0.
In the number one match, Chum Steele continued his streak of sparkling play of pounding John Gallinato, 6-0, 3-6. Last near Gallinato defeated Crimson star Frank Ripley.
Dave Benjamin had a little more trouble of number two, but edged persistent Craig Flager, 6-4, 9-7. Harvard swept the rest of the matches with relative ease: Live Kileff (three) blitzed Mark Green, 6-1, 6-2: Captain Dean Peckham (four) momentarily lost concentration against Bill Swift, and then bashed him in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; merciless Richie Friedman (five) wiped Joe Friedman, 6-2, 6-1: Terry Robinson (six) downed John Nerenberg, 7-5, 6-3.
For a little excitement, Coach Jack Barnaby tried a few variations in the doubles. Sophomores Dick Appleby and Brian Davis downed Gallinato and Swift by the baffling score of 0-6, 6-0, 7-5.
The Crimson netmen took five of six singles matches Saturday to cut down a top-heavy Army team, 6-2.
Remembering last year's loss to Army's highly rated Wait Ovehrlein, Steele got revenge on the scrappy Cadet, 3-6, 7-5. Oehrlein was runner-up in the Eastern collegiate tournament last June.
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