Squash Team Wins Intercollegiates

The Crimson squash team, playing without its number two or three men, won the National Intercollegiate Squash Championship with 14 points Saturday in Hartford, Conn. Two other varsity teams, the fencers and the wrestlers, each placed men in the finals of intercollegiate tournaments.

Navy's squash team placed one point behind Harvard for second place.

First-seeded Ben Heckscher beat Juan Hermacilla of M.I.T. 18-15, 15-9, and 15-11 to capture the title. Pete Milton and Martin Heckscher advanced to the third round before being eliminated, to give the Crimson the rest of its points.

In the third round, Heckscher had his toughest match as he edged Tom Lynch of Navy, 15-7, 8-15, 12-15, 15-11, and 15-7. Heckscher then downed Warren Zimmerman of Yale 15-12, 15-11, and 15-9, to enter the finals.

Mitchell Thomas entered the sabre finals in the Intercollegiate Fencing Championships as the first varsity entrant in the finals in ten years.

The rest of the Crimson team gave Thomas little support as it placed ninth in the tournament and seventh in sabre. Thomas, fencing against the other number three sabremen, compiled a 9-2 record to give him a tie for the lead with Ed Magnani of Columbia. In a play-off, Thomas edged Magnani 5 to 4.

Thomas entered the final pool with the other five top sabre fencers to compile a 1-4 record, beating Eliot Mills of C.C.N.Y. When he lost to the champion, Martin Wertlieb 5 to 4 he was the closest man to beating Wertleib in the final pool.

Pete Morrison entered the finals of the Eastern Wrestling Tournament in the unlimited class Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. The Crimson team, placing eighth of 18 colleges, ranked a head of all the Ivy League and Army. Pittsburgh won, with 73 points.

Morrison pinned Ed Fisher of Rutgers in 1:33 of the first round for the quickest time of the tournament. In the quarter finals and semi-finals Morrison went into an overtime and even then the matches had to be decided by the referee's decision. Bill Oberly of Penn State downed Morrison 5 to 3 in the finals with all Lehigh cheering for Morrison.