TIGERS, INDIANS MAY MEEET IN BASKETBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF

With one week to go, it now seems better than an even bet that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball Leagut will conclude its 39th season with the seventh playoff in its history. During the skirmishing of the past few days, a towering Dartmouth Indian made off with a half a claim to the 1942 title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story.

Edging out Columbia, 46 to 43, in a rough and tumble encounter in New York last week, the defending champions retired to the hills and easily defeated Yale, 68 to 52, two days later for their tenth triumph in 12 starts. By way of showing they were every bit as good as the title-winning Indian teams which preceded them, they set five new league records during the season.

Keeping pace with them as it scored two triumphs by wide margins over teams which had previously been in the running was Princeton's agile quintet. Although the Tiger's steady attack continued to function, it was the Nassau defense which made the victories comparatively easy. The Orange and Black held Penn to 31 points and Cornell to 30, figures which are about 25 percent below the average scores of these two teams on a season's basis.

There is still, of course, a reasonable doubt that the Cappon-coached five will make a playoff necessary. Stranger things have happened in the Eastern League than a title-bound entry's blowing a supposed setup to a second division quintet. The Princetonians face Columbia at home on Wednesday and Penn in the Palestra on Saturday. Until these games have been won, it would be folly to plot how to stop Olsen or what to do with Munroe's one-handed flips in a playoff.

Cornell and Princeton, the only two teams in the circuit which were able to take the measure of Harvard twice, may consider themselves well off. The Cambridge quintet has been improving steadily and appears to have found in red-headed, lanky Hugh Hyde the balance wheel it needed. Although held scoreless at Princeton, the six-foot four inch sophomore has been in double figures against Columbia, Penn and Yale to give the Crimson its best offense in several years. By topping the Elis, 60 to 47, Harvard created for itself the mathematical possibility of finishing a high as a tie for third. BASKETBALL LEAGUE   W.  L.  Pct. Dartmouth  10  2  .833 Princeton  8  2  .800 Cornell  6  5  .545 Pennsylvania  5  5  .500 Harvard  4  6  .400 Yale  2  9  .182

THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE

Wednesday--Columbia at Princeton 8:30

Pennsylvania at Harvard 8:30

Friday--Harvard at Yale 8:30 INDIVIDUAL SCORING Player & Col.  Ga.  G.  F.  Pts. Munroe, Dart.  12  64  47  175 Olsen, Dart.  12  71  26  168 Lawry, Prince.  10  61  21  130 Burditt, Har.  10  48  33  129

THIS WEEKS SCHEDULE

Wednesday--Columbia at Princeton 8:30

Pennsylvania at Harvard 8:30

Friday--Harvard at Yale 8:30 INDIVIDUAL SCORING Player & Col.  Ga.  G.  F.  Pts. Munroe, Dart.  12  64  47  175 Olsen, Dart.  12  71  26  168 Lawry, Prince.  10  61  21  130 Burditt, Har.  10  48  33  129