Tennis, Lacrosse Teams Will Play Engineer Varsities This Afternoon

The varsity tennis team will open its regular schedule this afternoon at 3 p.m. with a home match against MIT. The Engineers main hope right now is for a pouring rainstorm and a cancellation.

If it doesn't rain, MIT will put a Norwegian sophomore named Ben Aasnaes at number one for the match with the Crimson's Paul Sullivan. The Engineer's number two man--captain Bob Padik--will meet Harvard's Bob Bowditch. These same four players will have another crack at each other in the first doubles match.

MIT's chief problem will be inexperience in the top spots. Varsity competition in still fairly new to Aasnaes, and Padik was only number six on last year's Engineer varsity. The number three man, Nick Chainey, didn't play in 1960, and the fourth man, Jerry Adams, was ranked eighth last year.

Harry Rosenweig and Harland Cuklanz will fill out MIT's singles positions. Chainey and the number seven man, Kerry Chatwin, will probably play second doubles; and Adams and Rosenweig currently hold the third doubles spot.

For the Crimson, Doug Walter will play at three, captain Peter Smith at four, Mark Woodbury at five, and Keith Martin at six. Except for Bowditch and Sullivan, the doubles combinations are as yet uncertain. Gerry Adleman and Kal Pollen, Adelman and Smith, Smith and Woodbury, or Walter and Martin are all possible combinations.