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year returned to take over the number two position and to act as Captain Haynes' partner on the number one doubles team. John Elliott, Frank Brown, Worthington Belt, "Curt" Thomas and Charles Baker were other members of the 1935 squad who returned. To these were added a number of promising freshmen. One of these, "Alex" Ransone, earned a regular position on the team. Other first year men on the squad were T rago Brust and "Bill" Cronin. Handicapped by a minimum of early practice, due to the bad condition of the courts and the lack of a suitable indoor floor, the net team fell before Elkridge Country Club at Westminster in the opening match by the score of 7-2, and before Johns Hopkins at Baltimore by a score of 6-3. The team hit its winning stride, however, when it took the measure of Saint Johns at Annapolis by the score of 5-4. Haynes, Vol kart, Elliott and Ransone won in the singles, and Belt and Brown and Elliott and Ransone won in the doubles as the Western Maryland Team showed strength in turning back Catawba on the local courts by the score of 6-3. In these early season matches the consistent play of Haynes, Vol kart and Elliott was encouraging and gave promise to a successful season, for the Terror netmen. As the season advanced the whole squad began to display a far better brand of tennis than it had shown in the opening tilts. A strong Hopkins team defeated the Terrors 6-3, but Haynes and Volkart again revealed their ability by winning easily in their singles matches. A close victory was gained over St. John's. 5-4, with the Terrors showing up very well in the singles, although a doubles win was necessary to clinch the match. Loyola was defeated in an abbreviated match, 6-1, but a tartar cropped up in Gettysburg College. The "Bullets" smashed out a 7-2 victory over the Hurtmen, but it is felt that with a few of "the breaks" the score might easily have been more in Western Maryland's favor. After that setback the Terrors regained their winning form in stop- ping Catholic University and thus began the second half of their schedule with a spurt that they hope will place Western Maryland high among the State tennis teams. HAYNES ELLIOTT BROWN THOMAS VOLKART III