Ufford Rated Underdog In National Squash Test

Squash is known as a college man's game. The Crimson's Charlie Ufford is tops in intercollegiate squash, but at the national individual championships at Buffalo this weekend he will be a decided underdog, chiefly because of an air force cadet who never went to college.

He is Harry Conlon, 20-year-old defending national champion. Ufford has never beaten him. Very few people have. Two weeks ago Conlon won an informal match with the Crimson number one man, 3 to 2, at Hemenway.

Ufford, ranked sixth nationally, will be an underdog to several others at Buffalo, notably French-born Henry Salaun, former Wesleyan star and now first-ranked player in New England. Nevertheless, he is in the running and could return Monday as the new national champion.

Slim Chance for Team Title

The Crimson entry in the five-man team championships, however, has practically no chance. It will be the only college team competing. The others will be club teams from various cities. Ufford will not be on the team, since he is playing for the individual championship. Bill Wister, who would have played fourth, is sick and cannot make the trip.

As a result, the lineup will be Dave Watts first, Larry Brownell second, Hadden Tomes third, Charlie Elliott fourth, and Johnny Rauh fifth. In Greater Boston competition, even with Ufford and Wister, the team finished only third among Class A five-man teams, and at Buffalo there will be teams from New York and Philadelphia as well.

This will be the last contest before the Crimson plays Yale next Saturday. The Yale match, coupled with the Army-Navy meet at Army the same day, will determine the national intercollegiate nine-man team champion. Navy and Yale must both lose if the Crimson is to have any chance at all.

The Yardling squash team, led by Captain Pete Milton, travels to Exeter this afternoon to take on one of the best schoolboy teams in the East.