Varsity Ski Team Competes At Divisional Championships

The varsity ski team feces its most important meet of the season this weekend in the Eastern Divisional Skiing Championships at Lyndenville, Vt.

Participation in the annual senior intercollegiate, Championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate skiing Association, held on March 6 and 7, is decided on the basis of the showing of the teams in the divisional championships.

The top two teams, plus the winners in the Western and Canadian divisions, will compete with the six highest teams of the previous year's senior championship.

Since the Crimson is not among these six incumbents, it must cop either a first or second in this meet, which includes entries from nine other New England colleges, including Yale.

Each team is limited to an entry of four men in each of the four events, and can have no more than eight men on its squad. This means that most of the team members must be versatile enough to compete in more than one event.

According to Coach Graham Taylor, the team has been hampered by a lack of snow, and accordingly a lack of practice. He has been unable to pick his best eight men, because he has had no basis for comparison of his candidates.

Vitzthum Heads Lineup

Tentatively, his team lines up with Captain hams Vitzthum, who is by far the best on the team in the cross country event, in that event and the jump. Taylor will pick his three other cross country entrants from Ebbe Dane, Chris Ingraham, Pote Churchill, and Jack Vohr.

Completing the entry in the jump will be three picked form among Vohr, Ingraham, Churchill, and his brother Fred.

Setting the pace in the downhill and the slalom, the alpine events, is harry Gardner, who has not competed so far this season, but whom Taylor considers the best in these events. Noel Scullin, another alpine man, has turned in the best competitive marks this season, and Taylor rates him second to Gardener.

The other two alpine skiers will be chosen from Daryl Hawkins, Dane, the two Churchills, and Jack Vohr.

Timek Trials

The squad is presently holding time trials at Lyndonville, and those with the best times will be entered in the meet. The downhill event will be run tomorrow morning, and the cross country in the afternoon. Sunday's events will be the slalom in the morning and the jump in the afternoon.