18 COLLEGES HERE IN INTERCOLLEGIATES

Cynosure of water-minded eyes for the second time in as many weeks, the Harvard Indoor Athletic Building pool will be the scene this weekend of the Sixth Annual Eastern Intercollegiate Individual Swimming Championships. Ninety swimmers representing 18 different colleges will participate.

Excluding the representatives of defending champion Yale, which swept these events last winter and will not compete here because of the college's new restrictive athletic policy, every top-fight natator in the East will show his wares at the Holyoke Street pond.

The meet will begin with trials and semi-finals in five events this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, continue with the finals of these events tonight at 8:15 o'clock, and conclude with competition tomorrow afternoon and evening.

Cornell, which didn't participate in the Ivy League and is therefore a bit of an unknown quantity, heads the entry list with 12 individuals. Navy and Princeton have each entered 11 men.

Nine Crimson Entries

For Coach Hal Ulen's Crimson team, which finished a fair season last Saturday, bowing to Yale 50 to 25, nine mermen will compete. Captain Johnny Eusden is listed for both the 50- and 100-yard free style events. Harvard's distance twins, Dave Barnes and George Christman, are slated for their specialties, the 220 and 440.

Harvey Pastel, Sophomore diver, will compete with Bob Aaron in the high board event, and Aaron will also take part in the low board competition. He will also swim in the 200-yard breast stroke, as will Don Ulen.

There is no Crimson entry in the back-stroke, the medley relay, or the individual medley, an event seen solely on tournament programs. Ossie Morton and "Kuaina" Watkins are to swim in the 50 with Eusden, and Watkins and Perry Stearns join him in the 100. Every Crimson entrant except Pastel and Aaron is entered in the 400-yard relay.

Princeton Should Dominate

Although official team totals are not considered (this is an "individual" championship), it is expected that Princeton, runner-up to Yale in the Ivy League this year, will dominate the meet, although not to the extent to which the Elis monopolized affairs at Yale last winter.

In the first event, the 50-yard free style, Ed Hall of Massachusetts State, who took second in the race last year, rules the choice. Princeton's Tony Bernabei, Brown's Ralph Gossler, and the Crimson's Eusden also figure in the fight.

May Be Surprises

Tom Shand of Princeton is favored in the 150-yard backstroke with Navy's Bob Bailey and Dartmouth's Henry Dodd in the running. There is always the chance of a surprise, of course, from natators of little publicized squads such as Bowdoin.

Freshman Gene Rogers of Columbia and Bill Glynn of Army should fight it out for honors in the 220, with Barnes and Christman well up. Both visiting boys beat Harvard this winter.

Princeton, Rutgers (which has a good, small squad), Dartmouth, and Navy are the top-dogs in the 300-yard medley relay. The low board diving event finds Bill Cant of Penn, Ralph Buratti of Rutgers, Ed Smyke of Springfield, Bill Schacht of Dartmouth, and Andy Doran of Princeton the most likely first five.

Unusual Medley Event

The unusual 300-yard individual medley is hard to call, but Brown's Carl Paulson and Norm Siegel of Rutgers are reported to be versatile mermen of note.

Hall, favorite in the 50, is also picked in the 100-yard sprint. In a trial heat in these championships last year, the Mass State lead turned in a 51.1 performance, far better than both the Harvard pool and Eastern meet records. Bernabei and Eusden should give him a race for his medal.

Tiger Norm Zheutlin should cop the 200-yard breast stroke, with Charlie Gantner of Rutgers very much in the race. The 440 should see another Rogers-Glynn-Barnes-Christman tussle, while the high board diving event figures to be pretty much a repeat performance of the low board. Final event of the card, the 400-yard relay, sees a host of good quartets, not the least of whom is Amherst, champion in the New England Intercollegiates a week ago.

Those amateurish prognostications do not include Cornell's many entries, because little is known of that squad, but no dire tales of budding Weismullers have emanated from the Ithaca district. The smaller New England colleges, such as Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams, turned in only mediocre times in the New England meet last week. All in all, it should be a wide open affair in most events. If Yale were entered, things would be different.