Netmen Thrash Williams Squad

The Varsity tennis team rolled to its fifth victory of the season yesterday, dismantling a previously unbeaten Williams squad, 9-0, on the Ephmen's home court.

Riding high after a similar shellacking of Brown last Saturday, coach Jack Barnaby's crew stretched its winning streak to three matches, with an early-season loss to Columbia the only blemish on its otherwise perfect record.

Captain Gary Reiner opened the romp with an easy 6-4, 6-1, victory in the first singles match. Teammates Kevin Shaw, Jim Levy and Andy Chaikovsky followed suit with solid straight-set wins as the hot sun took its toll on the struggling Williams netmen.

Only Todd Lundy and Dan Waldman, playing second and third, respectively, came close to stumbling. Their matches went to three sets before the Crimson netmen could clinch victory. Junior Waldman staged an especially strong finish, polishing off his pesky opponent, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.

A Right to the Jaw

With the Crimson holding an insurmountable 6-0 lead, the doubles matches proved anti-climactic. "The Harvard men could afford to be very relaxed--they were swinging hard and loose," Dave Johnson, the Williams coach, said last night.

Playing number one doubles, Reiner and Cliff Adler sweated out a close 6-3, 7-5, win over their Williams rivals. Todd Lundy, then teamed up with Shaw to gain a 6-1, 7-5, triumph, before Reiner and Levy mercifully put the Ephmen out of their misery in a 6-1, 6-1, laugher.

Johnson expressed disappointment that his team failed to win any of the tight matches, but chalked up the difference to the Harvard squad's edge in experience. "They just have had a lot more match time than we have," he said.

Barnaby's netmen will now prepare for the New England Intercollegiates in Amherst in early May, before returning to open their home season against Princeton on May 7.