diff --git a/src/apachetests/test/pool.test b/src/apachetests/test/pool.test
index 6c11abc..ba22acd 100644
--- a/src/apachetests/test/pool.test
+++ b/src/apachetests/test/pool.test
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 } {Counter is 1}
 
 ::tcltest::test pool-1.2 {interp pool test} {
+    set match1 "no response"
+    set match2 "no response"
+    set match3 "no response"
+    set match4 "no response"
     apachetest::start {} {
 	set page [ ::http::geturl "${urlbase}$testfilename2" ]
 	set page [ ::http::geturl "${urlbase}$testfilename2" ]