Cutler Breaks Record in 440 as Greenhood Takes Diving Crown

NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 17--There was brilliant swimming to be seen here in Payne Whitney Pool this evening as the top tankmen of the East gathered to compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships.

Eric Cutler, of Harvard, Russell Greenhood, of Harvard, Bill Garrett, of Army, and Justin Callahan, of Columbia were the men who copped League titles. Cutler won the quarter-mile in 4.57.6, a new meet record, and a personal record for the Crimson captain-elect. He eclipsed Harry Rawstrom's old mark of 5:03.7, made last year.

Greenhood Wins Easily

Captain Greenhood, meeting little competition in the one-meter dive, took the low board title easily with 113.6 points. Jack Keating, of Columbia finished second with 94.4, and Chet Sagenkahn, of the Crimson was third with 83.5.

Garrett, a sprinter comparatively unknown to the public, continued his consistently fast season's performances by plowing through a 23.8 50 to win the two-lap title. Previously, Yale's Perryman had taken the first heat in 23.8, beating Garrett, and Julian Armstrong, of Dartmouth, had won the second heat, also in 23.8, with Harvard's Jim Curwen third. Curwen placed fifth in the final behind Garrett, Russ Duncan, of Yale, Armstrong, and Perryman, a formidable field for any 50-yard race.

300 Mark Falls

Callahan, Columbia leader, triumphed in the 300-yard individual medley in 3:34.2, a new National Intercollegiate mark. The old record of 3:39.6 was set by former Yale leader Macionis in 1936. The Lion captain beat Al Van de Weghe, Princeton star by two yards in the final, after each had won his heat in the preliminaries. Ed Kent, Columbia; Frank Ferguson, Colgate; Huldane Wilson, Yale and Barnett Phillips, Yale finished in that order behind the leaders. This is the first year that the 300 individual medley has been contested in the League championships, and Callahan's record should stand for some time.

Captain Richard R. Hough, of Princeton, warmed up for his race tomorrow by swimming the fastest 100 yards breastroke ever swum by man. He did the century in 59.9 in an exhibition swim which was not accepted as a world's record because the authorities in New Haven had not been notified the prescribed three days in advance. He cracked Jim Skinner's Exeter and world's record of 1:02.1, and the accepted national mark of 1:02.7 made by Jack Kasley, of Michigan. Hough was paced by a pair of Yale breastrokers.

Powers Fifth in 440

Ed Hewitt, of Harvard, was last in his heat of the 440 with a 5:22 clocking and did not qualify for the finals. Frannie Powers turned in 5:06.4 to take third in his heat and finished fifth in the finals behind Cutler, Ned Parke, of Princeton, Callahan, and Bob Belcher, of Yale.