Hoopsters and Confident Mermen in Action Today

Hal Ulen's swimmers will try for their second league victory this afternoon against Navy at Annapolis, and on the basis of the Middies' two performances this year, the Crimson ought to come out on top. The 1942 mermen meet a Gardner High team at 3:15 at Gardner.

Navy has been beaten by Princeton, 61 to 14, but Washington and Jefferson lost to the sailors, 61 to 44. Of the two scores the former shows most convincingly just what is to be expected from the Annapolis affair. Navy's only first came in the dive won by Gibson with 123.9 points. He defeated Rusty Greenhood last year with 113 points, and opened his season this year with a 123-point performance against W. and J. But in view of Greenhood's 124 points against the Providence Boys Club Wednesday, the contest ought to be about as close as can be. Miller, of Navy, a 90-point man, may press Chet Sagenkahn for third.

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The only other feature attraction at Annapolis is a strangely dimensioned pool which will not permit a 50-yard race to be swum. It has to be a 60, and rumor has it that this race is negotiated across the pool at that. Wager and Englander are the Middies who will handle the sprints. They are not expected to press Jim Curwen.

Coach Ulen departed yesterday at noon, taking 16 tankmen with him. They are: Jim Curwen, Eric Cutler, Frannie Powers, Rusty Greenhood, Chet Sagenkahn, Dave Van Vort, Freddie Griffin, Ed Hewitt, Bob White, Art Bosworth, Craig Moore, Jack Waldron, Max Kraus, Ned Goldwasser, and Lonnie and Harley Stowell.

Danny Endweiss, of Yale, one of the best divers in the nation, was stricken with appendicitis after a meet on Wednesday and was operated on immediately. His loss will mean much to the Elis in the Princeton and Harvard meets. The attitude around the local pool is that his loss to Yale is unfortunate but then so was the loss of Willie Kendall to the Crimson.