Net Team Meets Favored Tarheels

Tennis fans will probably see the best exhibition of the year when North Carolina takes to the Soldiers Field courts at 3:45 p.m. today. The Tarheels, whom Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby likens to Notre Dame in football, have already handed the varsity its only two losses of the season.

Although Barnaby's squad has won seven and tied one, and shown definite improvement since the pair of defeats at Chapel Hill, N.C., the scores down South were 12-5 and 11-4, and no amount of progress could do much to make up that difference.

North Carolina last year was responsible for three of the Crimson's four defeats, and several members of that undefeated Tarheel squad are back. Among the returnees are Captain Herb Browne, Tom Bradford, Don Thompson, and Bob Payne. Browne and Bradford were the 1953 doubles champions of the powerful Southern Conference.

Facing them for the varsity will be Ham Gravem, Brooks Harris, Captain John Raugh, Alex Haegler, Gene Mann, and Donn Spencer.