Swim Team At Eli Pool In Easterns

Harvard and 38 other college teams will meet in New Haven tonight through Saturday for the 22nd annual Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships. For the first time since the event was established in 1938, a team title will be at stake; and the Crimson swimmers have a fair shot at it.

Yale, on the basis of its depth and its home-pool advantage, rules as the favorite. Although the Crimson topped Yale 48-47 two weeks ago, it does not have enough strength to take advantage of the Easterns' double-event program (i.e., a long and a short race will be swum in each event).

The rivalry among Harvard, Yale, and Princeton may well be jolted by any of the other title contenders from the East Coast--North Carolina, North Carolina State, Maryland, Navy, and possibly Army or Williams.

Coach Bill Brooks will take a contingent of 18 swimmers for the varsity, which has been hampered by the two-week lay-off since the Yale meet, by hour exams, papers, and theses, and by illness. Harry Turner, a distance man, and George Mulligan, a freestyler, have been weakened considerably by the flu.

Turner, however, will enter the 1500-meter freestyle, one of the two finals to be run tonight at the Payne-Whitney Pool.

The other final will be in the 200-yard individual medley. John Pringle, the varsity's most versatile performer, will go after a victory in that one.