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Show 0EE11 BEATS HAHTEM TDUHEY Princeton Star Stages Great Comeback and Noses Out Star Harvard Athlete. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 12. Two Har-, varrl men, two from Princeton and ono r;ir h from 1 he I 'niverslty of Southern , California, I lie University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylva-nia. Cornell anrl Yale survived the firHt and second rounds of Hie singles section; of the annual inLercollegtato tennis tour- j naim-nt, played today on the courts of the Alerinn Cricket elub. Ifnverford. "flu fe.ntJtro match was between Leon-! anl Brekinan of New York, the Prinze- I ton star, runner-up to H. Norrls Williams. II nf Harvard for the title last year, and; llicliard II. Harto, Jr., of Harvard, end; on the Crimson football team last fall. I The draw brought theso two together in i . the second round and Peek man v;ls victorious vic-torious after a sensational contest. Ilarte won the first set with comparative ease hy six panics 1o three, but in the second Meek man braced and, playing an almost perfect net game, varied by excellent lob-bliic, lob-bliic, pulled out a victory by tailing the next two sets, 6-2. 6-3. Jerry Wbber, the Yale champion, put Young McCormiek, one of the southern 'alifui nia stars, out of the running in I three sets, but Warren, the other Pacific ! roast entrant, defeated Stoddart of Yale I in a. hard -fought match, B--1, 10-S. Colkott Caner of Harvard won' his first round match by default from Taylor of Johns Hopkins, but had to work hard to defeat K. M. Kd wards of Pennsylvania in tho second round, winning after three keenly contested sets, 3-6, 6-0. 6-4. B!a!r of Cornell played a strong game in defeating Van Tevenler of Princeton. After losing the first set 3-6, he took the next two. S-6 and 6-4. Clover and Hawks of Lei and Stanford university, California, failed 1o show up today, as did also both the Johns Hopkins and one of the Cornell entrants, all losing their matches by default. The first round of the doubles will be played tomorrow, white half of the third round of the singles sin-gles will be disposed of. |