EISL Swimming Championships Begin Today

Tonight begins the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships at Princeton. And when the three frenzied days of racing are over, it is safe to predict that the Crimson swimmers will have walked away with more than their share of EISL, laurels.

It is at present uncertain whether the Crimson will be permitted to share the Eastern crown with Yale and Navy--each team lost one EISL meet, but Harvard swam one fewer meet when Cornell was snowbound and had to break their appointment in Cambridge. But the team title in the Easterns, if there were such a team title, would almost certainly come home to Cambridge.

The varsity will send enough men to enter practically every event. Crimson hopes look particularly strong in the replays, the sprints, the backstroke, the individual medley, and the breaststroke.

In the medley relay coach Bill Brooks will probably swim about the same team that set a pool record against Yale last Saturday. Bob Kaufman (55.5) will lead off in the backstroke, followed by Bill Schellstede (1:04.5), Alan Engleberg (53.9), and probably Bill Zentgraf (49.0). This team can do between 3:43 and 3:44, and that should be good enough for first.

Hunter Seeks Sprint Titles

Bruce Hunter probably will not swim in the medley, as he has titles to defend in the 100 (48.6) and in the freestyle relay. Hunter also has his sights set on regaining the Easterns title in the 50, an event which he lost to Dartmouth's Charlie Brown last year.

Kaufmann has the field practically to himself in the 200 backstroke, but if he swims the individual medley he will be given quite a battle by Yale's Dave Burgess, who did 2:05.5 at the IAB Saturday.

John Pringle should turn in the best times of his career this weekend, since he will be swimming fresh in every event. He should place high in the individual medley and breaststroke, and he has a very good chance in the butterfly.

If Kaufmann swims in the freestyle relay no one will beat the Crimson. But Kaufmann may well have already swum this three events. If so, a fourth man will have to be found to fill out the team of Engleberg, Zentgraf, and Hunter.