Tennis Team Faces Penn, Hopes to Avenge Last Year

Harvard's tennis team, seeking to reverse its only loss in Eastern play last year, hosts Penn, today at 2 p.m.

The Quakers, winning two key doubles matches, upset the Crimson last year on their own hard courts, 5-4, to gain a three-way tie with Princeton and Harvard for the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship.

With the loss of graduating seniors Bailey Brown and John Reese, two of the best players Penn ever had, the Quakers should not repeat last year's sweep of the first three singles matches and first two doubles.

Playing in the number one slot for the Quakers will be junior Clay Hamlia, a hard-serving junior who was undefeated at number three last year. Harvard's Dave Benjamin, a control player, should fare better against Hamlin today on the soft Crimson courts than he did against slugger Peese on hard courts last season.

Adelsberg vs. Serues

Sophomore Bernie Adelsberg will play Penn's Ed Serues in the number two match. Coach Jack Barnaby will have Clive Kileff, who played Hamlin last year, and Richie Friedman in the three and four slots. They will probably play Fred Levin and Fred George. Rounding out the Crimson team will be Dick Appleby, five, and Brian Davis.

Adelsberg and Benjamin will play the first doubles match for Harvard. Davis and Appleby will play second, but Barna, by has not decided on his third team yet. Penn has had more trouble in the doubles this year, and the Crimson should fare especially well.