Varsity Will Face Top Swimmers In '55 NCAA Championship Meet

The Crimson swimming team fiew to Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, yesterday for the opening of the National Collegiate Athletic Association meet this morning. By the time the championship races are over on Saturday night, the varsity should have three Crimson records to its credit.

Since the competition at the N.C.A.A. meet is the best from colleges all over the country, only one varsity swimmer is favored to set an intercollegiate and American record. The rest will be pushed by Ohio State, Michigan, Yale, and the University of North Carolina to Crimson marks in second, third, or fourthplace times.

Hawkins May Better Time

Dave Hawkins, who established an intercollegiate and American mark for the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:13.3 clocking, is expected to better that time at Oxford. He will have to if he hopes to beat the gentleman whose 2:15.8 record he broke at the Easterns last weekend, the University of Michigan's Bumpy Jones.

In addition, Hawkins will have to cope with Phil Drake of the University of North Carolina, who swam a 2:14 flat in the finals of the Atlantic Conference meet, and John Dudeck of Michigan State, who can probably do better than his recent 2:16.6.

But Hawkins, as a defending champion, is expected to win and set records. The attention of swimming observers will be directed more toward the performance of the Crimson's powerful Jim Jorgensen. This junior is the fastest 250 free styler in the East, with a top clocking of 2:07.8.

Jorgensen has not lost a race over the middle distance this season, but in the Miami pool he will meet the last two world record holders for the event. Ohio State's Hawaiian, Ford Konno, was top man with a 2:04.7 until Michigan's Scotsman, Jack Wardrop, did a fantastic 2:03.4.

Since Iowa's Jim McKerritt and another Hawaiian, Indiana sophomore Bill Woolsey, can both hit 2:07 pins, and Stanford's Dan Osborn has done 2:08, Jorgensen will be pushed hard to set a Crimson record. He has not tired himself out yet this year in the event.

The varsity's 400-yard free style relay team, which set a Crimson record of 3:28.1 and placed second to Yale in the Easterns, may take second to the Elis again. Michigan's best has been a 3:30 in the Big Ten Conference meet, and while Iowa State did a 8:24, its quartet was racing in a 20-yard pool and had the four-second advantage of an extra turn.

Relay Time Will Improve

Hawkins, Chouteau Dyer, Jack Edwards, and Jorgensen combined for the first time in the Eastern relay, and so their time, if they swim together again, should be faster this week. Edwards, however, has been sick with the flu, and Jon Lind may have to replace him.

Backstroker Alan Rapperport will lead off the Crimson medley relay team ahead of Hawkins and Edwards, but the trio's best, 2:53.1, will be up against 2:45 teams from Ohio State, North Carolina, and Iowa.

John Glover of Dartmouth and Yale's Rex Aubrey, Kerry Donovan, and Sandy Gideonse will control the 50 and 100 free style events, with the Mid-West's only apparent opposition being Ron Gora of Michigan. Dyer, Edwards, Gus Johnson, Lind, Pete Macky, and Stu Ogden will enter for the Crimson, with Jorgensen being a possible extra if his temporary illness keeps him from the 440.

Jorgensen holds the Crimson record for the 440 with a 4:43.5, but Konno and Wardrop have covered the course in 4:28.6 and 4:29.9 respectively.

Sigo Falk and Bill Hoadley will enter the orthodox breaststroke for the varsity, but Mike LaMair of Ohio State's 2:25.1 and Bob Mattson of North Carolina State's 2:26.4 are a good seven seconds ahead of the Crimson's best clockings