Swimmers Open Here Against MIT Tonight

The varsity swimming team "may and it kind of tough here and there" in their intercollegiate opener against M.I.T. at 8:30 p.m tonight in the Blockhouse pool, Coach Hal Ulen said last night, "but on the whole we shouldn't have much trouble."

Bill Brooks' 52 squad will face a good freshman team from Tech a 7:30 p.m. immediately before the varsity meet.

Five events are definitely in the bag for the Crimson, according to Ulen's premeet predictions, and the Varsity has a more than even chance to take the other four.

Tom Wood will oppose M.I.T.'s best swimmer, Pitler, in the 220-yard back-stroke, and Chuck Hoolzer and Larry Ward will swim against Tech's Polletier in the 200-yard breaststroke, the two events in which M.I.T. claims its greatest strength.

Ward challenged Hoolzer's supremacy in the butterfly department Saturday night by winning the abbreviated 100-yard race against the Alumni.

M.I.T. Sprinters Good

In the sprint division, the only other place where M.I.T. has shown any speed, Shep Brown, Martin Hull, and Bob Burke, captain of last year's Freshmen, will swim against Tech's Edgar and Conlin in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events.

The probable absence of distance star Ted Norris because of a bad cold should not hurt the Crimson in the 220 and 440 free-style, Ulen said, since Captain Jerry Gorman seems a sure bet to win both races tonight.

The Freshman squad faces a much harder assignment than the Varsity to-night, judging by the M.I.T. freshmen's recent loss to a good Brown team by only three points.

Tonight's meet will give College spectators their first look at the 150-yard individual medley race with Norm Ackerman and Dick Wheeler swimming the newly-instituted event for the Crimson Freshmen.