ULEN DISCUSSES TEAM'S SHOWING IN NATIONALS

Coach Hal Ulen returned to Cambridge yesterday with the full story of the disappointing performances of Crimson mermen at the N.C.A.A. championships at Ann Arbor.

"The main trouble," he declared when asked for an explanation, "is that for our swimmers the Nationals come too much as an anti-climax after we complete our eastern season. We compete in 14 meets and the Eastern League championships here; then have to travel over 800 miles to swim against the country's best.

"This year, when we were without boys like Charlie Hutter and Graham Cummin who never seemed to get stale, the post-season competition was a little too much."

Cutler's Arm Hinders in 440

He revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow.

Rusty Greenhood, only Crimson man who is staying in the mid-west for the National A.A.U. meet this weekend, scored 130 points to take fourth in the three-meter dive. Henham, of Michigan, beat him by three-tenths of a point for third, while second-place Earl Clark was within a point of both.