Brandeis Will Meet Quintet For 1st Time at 8:30 Today

A Johnny come-lately, which has come fast in local basketball, will face the oldest Johnny of them all for the first time in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The newcomer, Brandeis, ranked fifth in New England, is a slight favorite to win its initial meet with the varsity basketball team.

The Crimson, which moved up to the eighth spot in the New England poll this week, would, with a victory tonight, equal its win total for the entire 1952-3 season.

Its current record of six and five already includes one more win than the entire 1951-2 season.

Starting for the varsity in its last game before meeting Yale here Saturday will be guards Ed Condon and Captain Ed Krinsky plus forwards Harry Sacks and Bill Dennis. Ed Blodnick and Dick Manning are likely to share the center spot.

In figures released yesterday, Sacks was leading the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League in scoring with a 29-point average. With 40 free throws in four games, the hard driving junior has an excellent chance to break his own E.I.B.L. season record of 102 free throws set last year; ten league games remain on the varsity schedule.

A 6:30 p.m. preliminary to the Brandeis game will see two undefeated Yard teams, Apley and Stoughton, play for the first round championship.