The New York herald., 1921-01-25
YALE MEN SCORE
AT SQUASH TENNIS
Advance One Round Ahead of
Rest of Glass B
Championship.
Victor WINS 3 MATCHES
Defeats r. H. Monks Of Prince
ton and Z. P. Pierce, Jr.,
for Harvard Club.
ny SAMUEL y. BRoOKMAN.

Two Yale club players advanced one
round ahead OF the rest of the con-
testants In the national Glass squash
tennis champ onship on the Squash Club
courts Yesterday. They are Thomas r.
Coward. who is being rated as the
favoritc for the title, and John A. Victor.
who has met with more than fair
share OF success in Class b play all sea-
son. One of the pair is sure to be
eliminated in the next round. the fourth,
for they now are drawn against each
other.
Victor was the only contestant to win
two matches yesterday. In both he led
In straight games. but was extended all
the way 10 dispose OF his rivals. Robert
a. Monks OF the Princeton club was his
first opponent. and the Tiger alumnus
was in excellent stroke. Placing with
good judgment. Monks had the Yalensian
hopping all over the court TO meet his
shots. but Victor covered court well
and his smashing style of attack proved
a bit too much for Monks. The latter
found II impossible to keep pace with
tho hard hit ball in the last few hands
OF each game when Vietor's stroking was
particularly powerful. The score
1s--1i. l5-i2. e. =. Pierce. Jr.. of the
Harvard club. In the round following.
met with the same experience against
Victor the score being almost as close,
1e--12. f5--i0.
For the first time In the tournament
Thomas Coward was forced to call on
his best speed to defeat w. A. Kimbei
OF the Columbia club. The latter began
none too promisingly. be ng outsteadied
and outplaced throughout the first di-
vision of play, but In the second game
kimbcl outguessed the Yale man fire.
quently. making good use OF low round
the wall shot that fell dead as II bounded
into the back wall corners. Kimbel
mixed h.s strokes cicverly and Coward
Rad only his superior control and swiiter
drive 10 thank for his success in ending
the match in straight games. The final
score was iS--3. i5-ie.
There were fifteen survivors al the
close Of the IN rd days play. among
them five representatives OF the CO.
lurnbia club. four OF the Yale Club. two
ench of the Harvard club and squash
club and one each OF the Montclair Ath-
ietic Club and Crescent Athletic Club.
The summary:
National class squash Tennis Cham
Plgnship-secend Round-F W; Chambers.
yAic cinh. by default; }. a. Rochs s:er.
Squash cilb. Won from " 3 Ri.esis, hSr-
ward club. hy default. v. n. Hemmnway.
Prinee'en P cias. is-iS. is@e. wini. Putnam.
Columbia Slub. defeated Jarvis Cromwell.
rrlnoetcn Club. Ills is-e: i5-e: John A.
princrton club. f5-ft. f5-I2 J. W. WINS,
Jr.. Crescent Athiefic Club. defeated &. g.
Scherrserhorn. Yale club. fs-i3. Ills. y.
NJ. simnudn, Jr. NDlunbia club. defeated N.
v. Crawford, Mortcinir Athletic Club. i5-ii.
is-e, ~ Manon. coluIuniA cigh sef.s,.f
sn~-Ie, iS--fn Reginald Noaule. Yale Csah.
defeated Lindsay bradford. Yale Club.
els lie. ig~ia
THIRD Hcsind--iohn A. Victor, Vale Club.
t~fented v. v. Pierce. gr, Harvard Club.
ts-~f2 fH~iO. Thomas r. Coward, Yale
tlub. -drfanted VI A Kimbel. Columbia
Club. fo.-S. i5~i2