;da y, May 8, 1951 THE DENVER CLARION

Tennis Anyone?

Page EievJ

Extended Road lri13 Set for Tennis Stars

B y ST U SHRYER Denver university's undefeated tennis team, ranker

among the best in the nation, gets its big chance this wee) when four top performers move eastward on an extendei road tr ip.

The four-man squad, which will journey as far as Pitts burgh, is made up of Clayton Benham, who has yet to . be defeated, Jack T er Borg, Grover Jacobs and Irwin Hoffman, r anked by Coach Fran Garth in th at order.

Nebraska Tomorrow

F irst stop will be tomorrow afternoon when the Pioneers meet the University of Nebraska a t L incoln. T hursday they go agains t

Racket Team Notches Pair, StillUnbeateJr

0.

~LAYTON BENHAM, JACK TERBORG, Gro:ver Jacobs, Irwin Hoffman and Coach Fran G arth (left 0 right) will make DU's first extended Tennis road trip this week and go against such powers as lebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Duquesne and Northwestern. The four players have orme~_J!!e- " 'lckbone of Denver's undefeated racket squad, rated among the best in the nation.

·1 Iowa a t Iowa City, and F riday they meet M ichigan State a t Lansing.

F rom there the quartet moves eastward to Pittsburgh where they play the University of P ittsburgh on Tuesday , then go against Du-

DU's all-conquering tennis te<;:, added two more in the win colurr' Thursday and Saturday as 'th dow ned Lowry Air Force bast 12-1 , and the University of Wy­oming, 8-1, on the Cowboy cour4

The P ioneer r acket squad nov; has seven consecutiv~ victories fo1 the young season . The;y had p rev:b ously dumped Wyoming on DC courts, 9-0 a nd 7-2 . Other victorie~ w ere a single 7-2 win over Aggies, and shutou t w ins from Colorad~ college and Colorado State.

• ID

Tennis T oUrney B ob Acsell of Denver, a former Colorado University star,

led t he field into the quarterfinals of the Wyoming state tenn is tournament S aturday as h e scored a sm ash ing 6-0, 6- 0 victory

c;iver David Clough. Ascell, r unner- up in last year's

m en's singles, took the fa vorite's r ole with the announcement that former sta te champion Bill Weather ill, now living in Los Angeles, had been unable to make the tour namen t.

Other top entries advanced in the three-day tourney along with Acsell. Cheyenne Champ Wins

P ete Cook, Cheyenne city champion, had little difficulty disposing of J udge Carson of Denver , 6--0, 6- 1. Carson pre­viously had defeated Murt Powell of Casper, 6- 0, 6-2.

Jack Gale, president of the host Casper tennis club, was· extended tc three sets befor e eliminating Alvie Willis of Denver -6- 3, 2- 6, 9- 7. Willis earlier b ad ousted John Osborne of Casper, 6-3, 7-5.

Former state doubles champ Jim Sprow ell of Rock Springs also had a severe test before dewing George Cramer of - Cas-per, 6- 4, 7-5. I

In other singles m atches, Allen Olsen of Scottsbluff, Neb., de­feated K en P etri of Laramie, 6- 3, 9- 7, then bowed to Allen Weath- \ erby of Casper, 6- 2, 6- 1. Weath­erby also eliminated Jim • ·oonan of Denver in a hard -fought 4- 6, 6- 4,6- 1 match . Other Entries Advance

Don Chr istian of Cheyenne top­ped Ph il Hogue of Denver, 6- 2, 3- J 6, 6- 1, then lost to II:wh1 Hoffman

, of Denver, 9- 7, 7- 5:_ Brad Bart-lett of Denver edged~ Richard William~ '6! Cheyenne, 6-4, 6-4; a_nd Chc>rles PPtit of Los Angeles whipued Don Elliott of Cheyenne, 6-il. 6-2. . . ·• M. }{offm an of -:p~nver ou_s-ed ] Gerald Sullivan o. ~r. 6- 1,

-6--1. hi- -the onl ju. ~vision m;.eh.

l quesne, of the same city, on Thursday. During the retu rn trip they stop off a t Evanston, I ll ., for a set with Northw estern on May 21.

J ust to make things a little harder the Skyline conference ten­~is championship playoffs are

scheduled for May 25 at Ft. Col­lins.

Big 10 Tough Advance information has it that

toughest competition will come I from B ig 10 Representatives Iowa ·i and Northwestern. Both schools

take their tennis ser iously and are well staffed with lettermen.

i All of the matches ·will include t four singles and two doubles. ., Benham, rated among the best r collegiate per for m ers, has yet to

be defea ted in singles p lay, while t the doubles combo of Benham and TerBorg h as an equal recor d . .Jacobs and H offm an w ill form ·,e second doubles team.

In both con tests last week De ver lost but one singles matc1. Clayton Benham and Jack Ter Borg con tinued their singles anf doubles domination .

LOWRY SINGLES-Be nham (DU) def. Walker, 6

6-1; Terborg (DU) def. Wcr<!dell, 6-0, 6-0; Jacobs (DU ) def. De rvin, 6-2, · 6-1 ; Hoffma n (OU) def. Dunn. 6-3, 6-1 ; Love (DU) clef. Mora les, 6-1, 6-1; Sh issler {OU) def. Walsh, 6-1 , 60; Davies (DU ) def . Dadd, 8-6, 7-5; logg ins (DU ) def. Silos, 6-2, 6-3; Newman (DU ) de f. Bette lli, 60-, 6-3; Epste in (L) def. Morrisord, 6-2, 6-1.

DOUBLES-Benham and Terborg (OU def. Walker and Wadde ll, 6-0, 6-2; Jacobs a nd Hoffman (OU) def. Dervin.· and Dunn, 6-2, · 6-0; Love and Sh issler . (OU) led Morales and Wa lsh, 6-1, 3-2 (ma tch called .for darknes>.-

WYOJ.\llNG SINGLES-Terborg (DU ) def. Dohan, 6-2,

6-2; Ben ham (OU) def. Petri, 6-1, 6-1 ; Watts iwJ, def. Jacobs, 6-3, 6-3; Hoffman (DU: def. Deits, 6-3, 6-2; Love U) def. Will iam~ 6-4, 6-1; Shissler ( ~. . Stephenson, 6· 6 -4.

DOUBLES­Walls and cobs (OU 6-4; H<> , ~ and V\ .··· ··

; DU Ping Pong Team · Runners-Up in State

sle' liar

Winning 11 out of 23 matches DU's table t-ennis team copped run~ nerup honors behind Colorado U. in / the Rocky Mountain Table Tennis · Tournament.

. Me ers o he second plar , .Pioneer club were V\in ~ .ri

m~a~15,taisnrft~~r~a~f ~~o~:;1 lJiJ:!~

-I te s were Colorado College, Colo­r rado State, Colorado A&M CU s and DU. ' ' d fl

per .

of