YARDLING SKATERS BATTLE ELI TODAY

In what shapes up as the best Harvard-Yale Freshman hockey game in recent years, the undefeated but tied Yardling sextet takes on an Eli Cub team with a record exactly similar to its own at New Haven today.

Not only is the Blue also unbeaten and once tied, but its single deadlock, like the Crimson's, came in a battle with the Dartmouth Freshmen. The Indians and Bulldogs played to a 3 to 3 draw on Thursday.

Factors which throw the favorite's role to the Crimson forces, however, are the week-long rest which the Chase six has enjoyed, and the Yardlings' excellent showing in last week's contest against Hebron Academy, conquerors of the Dartmouth Freshmen.

The Chasemen will ice their usual starting six, with Stan Collinson, Tommy Ayres, and Jim Apthorp on the front line, Captain Dick Mechem and Orrin Wood at defense, and Jim Summers in the cage.

Today's battle will be the last of the season for the '45 outfit, and 16 Yardlings are making the trip to New Haven.