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Show Courtmen Drill Under New Coach Under the watchful eye of South's new mentor, Billy Johnson, Cub racqueteers are now diligently training in an eager effort to round out a team capable of sweeping sweep-ing the city net series this season. With the initial Big Three encounter en-counter set for April 14, with the junior squads of South and West clashing, all net fans may well expect ex-pect an exciting campaign with , keen competition throughout the entire race. Last year the Cubs just couldn't keep in step with Lady Luck and landed in the cellar position. However, How-ever, the Cubs are more determined deter-mined than ever to bring to an end the long reign of the Eciders. This year fans will see the absence ab-sence of many netters whose valuable val-uable services will be greatly missed. Such notable players as Carl Hulbert, Mark Caffal and Stan Clawson will be hard to replace. re-place. However, Southerners can expect a great deal from Frank Davidson, Doug Heiner, Deane Christenseri, Jack Richards, Harvey Har-vey Schmidt, Gordon Nelson to name only a few, to make a great showing in the "A" division. A fine crop of rookie netters show promise of developing into ton-notch players. Men such as Dick . Brower, Eddie Anderson, Jimmy Neely, all-round athlete, Dave McClelland, and many more juniors, will offer stiff competition competi-tion to the two cross-town rivals, East and West. In the war future, Billy Johnson John-son will pick a singles and doubles dou-bles team to represent Socth at the Invitational meet. Last year Cub netters Carl Hulbert ond Frank Davidson the number one senior and junior men blasted their way to the finals in the dou- bles. But the team from East defeated de-feated the Cubs. Frank will, in all probability, go again this year. |