Skiers Underdogs at Williams

The varsity skiing team, with its chances for anything better than a weak performance already very slim, will have its hopes further lowered by the absence of captain Joe Poindexter from the Williams College Winter Carnival which opens today in Williamstown.

The prospects are very dim for the Crimson team which finished seventh in a field of eight at the Middlebury Ski Carnival last week, and ninth in a field of eleven at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival the previous week.

Harvard's strongest entry will be in the slalom, but will be considerably weaker in the Nordic events. At Middlebury, Don Stephenson finished fifth in the slalom, and at Dartmouth, Al Arkley placed fourteenth in the downhill. Both will be counted on heavily today.

The Slalom entrants were chosen on the basis of trials held Thursday at Temple Mountain. Those regulars, besides Stephenson and Arkley, who will make the trip are Roger Mitchell and Pete Berle.