Tennis Team Goes South to Practice For First Battle

Coach Harry Cowles will take his tennis team to Washington on Tuesday for two days of outdoor practice before the Navy encounter at Annapolis on Saturday, April 9, which rings up the curtain on the 1938 season.

Besides Captain Alvah Sulloway, George Lowman, David Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Chester Legg, and John Palfrey will make the trip, with Mason Harlow as manager. Hubert Hauck will be unable to join the squad on the Southern jaunt.

Although Cowles declined to predict a probable ranking at this early date, it looks as if Burt, Lowman, and Sulloway will battle it out for the top positions, with Burt, who won the University Tournament as a Freshman in 1936, holding a slight edge.

Working Out Daily

The racquetmen have been working out daily in Boston at the Tennis and Badminton Club. Sulloway's ground strokes seem much improved over last year. Lowman has been working on improving control of his powerful service.

Burt is concentrating on developing his flat strokes while Gilkey has been experimenting with a twist service in pre-season practice sessions.

Among the large group of Yardlings who answered the tennis call last week Cowles mentioned Langdon Marvin, Barney Straus, Homer Peabody, John Glidden, Hubert Earle, Jackson Dick, and Rosslyn Lyell as promising material.