Students Protest Scarcity of Time On Tennis Courts

Several undergraduate tennis players have complained to the Athletic Department about the inaccessibility of Harvard's indoor tennis courts.

The demands placed on court time at the three Palmer Dixon indoor tennis courts allow undergraduate use of only one or two courts for four or five hours every day, Robert Dubois '77 said yesterday. "A lot of people really want this changed," he added.

Harvard and Radcliffe tennis teams currently use all three courts between noon and 6 p.m. After 6 p.m. undergraduates can play on the courts for a charge of $5.00 per person per hour.

Early Morning Blues

Only one court is available to undergraduates in the morning, Dubois said, because the tennis teams use one court and Radcliffe tennis coach Henry C. Wynn rents another court for private lessons.

"It's pretty tough to get a court," Andrew L. Chaikovsky '79, a court monitor, said yesterday. "It got to the point last year where people would call up right at 8:00 in the morning" to sign up for a court.

The Palmer Dixon courts were funded by a grant from Palmer Dixon '50 and were "specifically deeded for the exclusive use of the men's team," David R. Fish, Harvard tennis coach, said yesterday.

Time not used by the tennis teams is set aside in the grant for general Harvard use, Fish said.