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FRESHMAN WINS ANNUAL FALL TENNIS TOURNEY

David Burt Downs All Opposition From Upper Classes, Graduate Schools to Win University A Title

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Playing in near freezing temperature on the Jarvis Field Courts. David S. Burt '40 outlasted Hubert H. Hauck '38 to win the finals of the University A tennis tournament 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 and become the first Freshman to win the annual competition in fifteen years. Burt played the number one position on the Exeter Academy team for three years without losing a single school match.

George F. Lowman '38, who met Burt in the semi-finals, also gained the distinction of taking a set from the Exeter flash. In the other semi-final clash, Hauck had little trouble with the soft stroking Alvah Sulloway, drubbing him 6-0, 6-3.

chief upset of tournament was fall of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of the Cowlesmen and top-seeded in this affair. Casey Wynn '40 disposed of Fuld in three sets in the third round, in the fourth he himself met a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Howard P. Kahn 1L. The latter, of Michigan racket fame, was in turn vanquished by the invincible Burt.

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