Weakened Crimson Sextet Favored To Take Tigers at Arena Tonight

Harvard skaters will try to make it two in a row over Princeton when the varsity sextet makes its next to last appearance of the season in the Arena tonight. Game time is 7 p.m. and following the Crimson game will be the New England playoff between BC and BU.

The Crimson is a slight favorite in tonight Big Three content and would be a much stronger bet had not Captain Myles Huntington and Shorty Minot been named in last Saturday's 4 to 1 defeat at Yale. Huntington will play, but with a stiff charley house leg and Minot will probably is out entirely with a wrenched knee. Cob DiBlasio should see action, but he will be nursing a bruised eye suffered in the BP game.

Princeton Weak

But even with these injury handicaps, Coach John Chase isn't overly worrying about tonight's prospects. Princeton is probably the weakest Pentagonal League team, and the Crimson had little trouble in handcuffing the unorganized scrappiness of the Tigers, 7 to 4, in Nassau, February 18.

Coach Dick Vaughan's Princeton sextet, which has a habit of shooting the puck ahead and then scrambling for it, reached its peak at the Dartmouth winter carnival when it topped the Green, 8 to 5. Since that time the Tigers have had to settle for victories over local Jersey schools while losing the big ones to BU, Harvard, and Yale.

Tonight's Crimson lineup lists Lew Preston, Huntington, and Dave Abbot for first line duty. Second linemen are DiBlasio, Joe Kittredge, and Doug Anderson, while Bill Timpson, Hal Marshall, and Jim Welsh comprise the probable third line.

The Crimson defense received a blow last week when sophomore Jack Donelan went on probation. So the defensive lineup is Dusty Burke and Bill Bliss as the number one pair and Jack Carman and Duke Sedgwick as the relief.

Tonight's lineup: Chase  G  O'Neill Burke  LD  Danforth Bliss  RD  Woodward Preston  LW  Gardner Huntington  C  Mills Abbot  RW  Selover