The New York herald., 1920-12-03

Headed by Fillmore Van S. Hyde,
former national champion. the Harvard
Club squash tennis team made a clean
sweep of its matches with the Crescent
Athletic Club squad OH the formers
courts yesterday, the victory being the
second for the Crimson graduates in
the metropolitan Glass champion
ship. Hyde playing at the top of his
form, triumphed over Charles M. Bull.
Jr., after hard three game tussle
that was unusual for its speed. Three
other matches also were carried into
an extra game, so the Crescents really
did not do as poorly as the score OF
to o appears to indicate.
Hyde left little doubt after his ex-
hibition against Bull that he will be
hard man to beat in the national cham
pionship. II there Is any weakness in
his game he failed to disclose it. He
had speed. skill, daring and powerful
drive and with the assistance OF MS
long reach made recovery after recoV-
cry of shots that looked untakable
Bull rarely has played better or forced
as swift pace, yet Hyde was able to
hold the lead throughout the greater
part of the match. In the second game
Bull, after trailing by several points
put every ounce of strength into
out of the fire by the margin OF
single tally. 17-16, but he could not sus-
tain the pace and Hyde took the decid-
ing division of play, 15-u.
Dana Has n Scare.
Anderson Dana, who has been runner
up in three title tournaments, had quite
a scare In his match with r. Earl Fink,
the latter taking the first game at 1o-lO
and an early lead in the second. But
the Harvard man settled down in time
and by outsteadying the Crescent player
managed to catch up with him and save
the match. Danas change of pace ana
crafty placing had Fink puzzled In the
latter stages of the contest.
At the Yale Club the ELI squad was
hard pressed to win from the Princeton
Club team. the result remaining IN
doubt until the final match. In the
tussle that decided the dual meet G.
MacGuire defeated John Taylor. The
latter appeared to be headed for victory
in the second game in which his alert
court covering and fast pace tied the
score. but the effort took all the steam
out of the Princeton mans attack, and
in the third game he had so little left
that he failed to score at all.
One point was all that stood between
victor and vanquished in the match be-
tween Harold r. Mixsell of the Prince
ton Club champion and Livingston
Platt of Yale. Platt had to acknowl-
edge defeat finally. but not until after
a stirring rally, during which he drew
I'D from 6-13 to t3 ALL 1t was nip and
tuck after that. and with the score IL
all. hand out" had to be called seven
times before the tie could be broken.
The contest was easily the best of the
series, both men doing some spectacular
getting and prolonging the rallies de-
spite the smashing style of attack.
Because Of the Class A matches the
fourth round Of the annual open tourna-
ment of the National Squash Tennis
Association at the Columbia Club was
postponed day.
The summary.
HARVARD CLUB, I: CRESCENT A. c.. o.
p. NJ Morrison. Harvard defeated James
Doig Crescent. 15-5. 1912; Fillmore Van
S. Hyde Harvard. defeated Charles NJ
ds4son eu 5r Dsns Gnss'f4 Defeated r Earl An
Fink Crescent. l0-l5, 15-s, 15--s Ralph
G. Coburn. Harvard: defeated C. W: Duryee.
Harvard, defeated Andrew Baxter, Jr.. Cres-
cent t5--5. 15-l2: F: l.. Whitlock, Harvard.
defeated X. F. Mcvsugh. Crescent. ,i5-17.
lis, Isl: l.. |. Grinnell. Harvard, de-
feeted y. +. Torrance, Crescent. 15-2, f5-6.
YALE CLUB. =; PRINCETON CLUB. 3.
Harold II. Mixsell. Princeton. defeated
Livingston Platt. Yale, 15-o. e-i5 1911;
G. J. MacGuirs. Yale, defeated John Taylor.
Princeton, defeated stuyvesant Wainwright.
Yale. i5-to, 1s-i6; T. Coward Yale. de-
fsatsG iss f. r 3. Harvey ' Princeton defeated
II. X. Stern. Yale, 2-15, 15-lo 15-i2: u.
s. Baker, Yale. defeated ]. Nicely. Princeton.
feated Basil Harris Princeton i5-o 1915,