Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-24
OSTEOPATH|C NET
TEAM A SUCCESS
Herb Fischer, Captain, Coach
and Manager, and Carl Leads
Penn Tennis Players
AN UNEQUALEO RECORD
by SPICK HALL

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Carl and Herbert Fischer have es-
tablished record never equsled In the
ranks Of collegiate lawn .ennis. Roth
are captain of their teams and both
have made fine records this spring play
ing first singles for their alma matters.
Carl is captain of the University Of
Pennsylvania team and Herbert leads
the Philadelphia College Of Osteopathy.
Carl and Herbert won the Eastern
Pennsylvania doubles championship last
season in tournament which had one
Of the best entry lists the event has ever
drawn.
Herbert Fischer is not only captain
of his lawn tennis team. but he is
coach and manager Playing first sin
giles. he did not lost match this spring.
| The success Of the Osteopaths on the
tennis courts was due chiefly TO Herb
Fischer's interest and work. The col
! lege has no courts of its own. but the
team has been working out on the Fair
mount Park courts at Strawberry Man
sion.
Few Students
Although there are only about 100
! students in the college and not more
| than dozen who play tennis. Herb
has developed a team that eventually
will make name for itself in intercol-
| legiate ranks.
Last season was the first for the
Ostcopsthic tennis team, but il won
! three Of its five matches. This year It
began With victory over Girard Col
| lege. FIVE matches to none. Later il
! trimmed Moravian College, four matches
TO >. at Bethlehem. In 1920 Moravian
beat the Osteopaths six matches to none
| The only defeat for Fischer's team was
at Princeton. where the Tiger freshmen
won all of the matches except first sin
! giles. which Fischer captured in a hard
| battle in which be had two close deci.
sions called against him on match
points.
The team developed rapidly and on
| May IA defeated p. NJ. G. at Chester
! FIVE matches to one. A week later It
| defeated St. Joe's. six matches to none.
George Yocum. Of Ardmore. plays
second singles for the OSteopathic team
| and lost but ono singles match this
season and played well in doubles with
! Herb Fischer Yocum is captain elect
Of the basketball team and formerly
High.
Had Good Seasons
| Glenn Rossman. singles champion Of
the Normal School of Western Pennsyl-
mia. plays third singles for Fischer's
team aud NJ Sullivan. who catches on
the baseball team. plays fourth. Both
of these men won the majority of their
matches. NJ Vaughan and r. Wilson
did good work playing fifth and sixth
, George Lewis. formerly an athlete at
Germantown High School was substi
| tute.
With only n dozen men TO choose from
Fischer had remarkable team. THIS
! is in striking contrast to the number OF
players Mt the University of Pennsyl-
vania. where 200 candidates turned IN
their names to captain Marshal Nanne-
man. of the freshman team this year.
Both Carl and Herb Fischer expect
10 play in the tournament for the cham
pionship of Philadelphia and vicinity,
which begins tomorrow afternoon on
the courts of the Cynwyd Club.
No story Of the Fischer family would
be complete without remarking that an
other brother. Barney. also is an ath-
| lete Barney formerly played tennis
but he has given il no for golf. He s
now the pride of Roxborough'
CaIifornians Coming
The advance guard Of the California
contingent that for wears has lent dash
and color 10 the tennis tournaments of
the country is on its way from the
Pacific coast in the persons of Phil
! Neer and Jimmy Davies. the Leland
Stanford University team. They will
play in the intercollegiate championship
at Philadelphia on June 81
Neer. whose home is in Portland
! Ore, is well known in the East. for he
represented the Pacific Northwestern
section in the national junior cham.
| plonship two wears ago. Davies lives
! 10 Los Angeles, but has not played
/ in the East. He was ranked as one
/ of the first ten of the California l..
! T. a. last season Both he and Neer
are well up on the national ranking
list.