The New York herald., 1920-01-30
YALE SQUASH TEAM
WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
Old Els Victory Over Crimson
Clinches Class B Title for
Year.
Class b Metropolitan League Standing

Yale and Princeton won the matches
yesterday in the Metropolitan League for
the Class B squash championship. BY the
victory over Harvard the blue wound up
the season as far as the titular honors are
concerned with q clean string of seven VIC
tories, and, although there is to be one
more contest staged next week against the
Princeton Club. this will have no bearings
on the standing, for Yale can lose it and
still be the victor. Harvard was the clos
est contender for the honors. and if the
Crimson had won yesterday would have
had a chance to tie things up as was done
in the Glass A tournament.
Princeton and Columbia were fighting ii
out to see which would keep off the tail
of the procession. Each of these clubs had
been able to win only a single game in the
schedule
Both. of the victorious teams yesterday
had a hard task of it and beat their rivals
by the same score, three matches to two.
In each case the result was in doubt until
the last match of the evening. A. II.
Tones, Harvard newcomer in the sport,
who has been showing a remarkable apti-
tude for the game, gave Fl. +. Stern, of
Yale. a nip and tuck tussle in the deciding
match. What beat Tones was his lack of
experience. Stern trapped him into play
ing just the sort of game that Ne liked.
In the first game the Harvard man was
content to play soft game, putting en-
phasis on his placing and accuracy. Stern
likes to smash, and his attempted kills
gave the Crimson player many an ace
through his lack of control. Tones won
at 15-10
In the second game Tones was not CON
tent to stand by his guns and play soft
stroking. steady game. He tried to meet
Stern at his own favorite style and the
first thing the gallery knew was that the
Yale man was leading by a score of 81.
Tones at this stage began to slaclen off
on the pace and scored eight aces. 1t was
only flash. however for he tried once
more to kill the ball and began to hit it
into the tell-tale. Practically the same
thing happened in the last game, which
Stern also won at 15-9.
one of the chief surprises of the Yale
Harvard competition was the defeat OF
Stuyvesant Wainwright, the Yale captain.
by j. a. Richards, another newcomer on
the Harvard team. How close the fight
was may be judged by the fact that four
OF the five contests went the limit of three
games.
Princeton and Columbia also had a very
even match, and it came down to the match
between Lloyd Richards Of Princeton. and
w. Putnam, of Columbia, before the issue
was settled. Richards was much too good
for the Columbian and he won easily in
strelght games by a score Of 1913, 15-4.
The summaries -
Princeton vs.. Columbia.
Il. c.. Olds, Princeton defeated /. H. Cornell
los. l1-l5. t5-6: jesse Boyt. Princeton, de.
IIeatei = n. Worcester. Columbia, 15-lt. 1j-a;
l.. Richards, Princeton, defeated W. Putnam,
La. l5,v,+; n; L. .strcbeigh, Columbia, de.
igated a. VI. kidder, Princeton. 49,. LII: n.
NJ. Slmonds. Columbia. defeated G. A. Walker
Jr., Princeton, lie. 1j-1O
Harvard vs.. Yale.
~ A. Richards. Harvard. defeated stuyvesant
ainWrlght Yale. lJ-5, 1j-12; II. r. stern,
iaie; defeated a. H. Tones. Harvard, 1O-i5;
l2I9, 1y-g w. ADAMS. Jr., Yale defeated r. s.
" " hltock; Harvard. 'l5-s 2t5. It'd; Geoffrey
IHylor. Harvrd, defeated Clyde Martin Yale
Z, ;s-l2' IL l9-o; L. Bradford, Yale defeat ted