Swimmers Host Elis Today

As varsity swimming coach Bill Brooks said earlier this season. Yale can "just about name the score" in the Harvard-Yale swimming meet today at 4 p.m. in the IAB.

But though the Crimson has no chance to win, spectators today should see the best Harvard efforts of the season, and a host of new pool records. Of the ten swimming events on tap, the Yalles have bettered the existing marks in all but two.

The biggest races of the afternoon may be in the freshman meet, which starts at 2 p.m. Yardling Bill Shrout, holder of four University records, will undoubtedly meet Yale's Olympian Don Schollander in either the 100 or 200 yard freestyles. Shrout, who chalked up times of 48.1 and 1:47.5 early in the season, has a good chance for the upset of the year.

Against Princeton last week, the Yale varsity won all eleven events and piled up a 72-23 score. But his week Harvard is favoured in at least two events, the dive and the butterfly. Yale's diver Bill Dean is no match for Harvard senior Danny Mahoney, while the incomparable Neville Hayes will win the butterfly, though he may be pushed to a new University record.

The Crimson may also pick up some points in the breaststroke and the 500 yard freestyle. Bruce Fowler, a winner against the Bulldogs last year, and Bob Corris are perhaps not as fast as Yale breaststroker Dale Keifer, but they could grab second and third for the varsity. Hayes, one of Harvard's strongest swimmers since Ironman John Pringle, could threaten Yale's Joe Hill in the 500.

Harvard's captain and distance freestyler star, Dave Abramson, will unfortunately not swim this afternoon because of an injured shoulder. Abramson is undefeated in the 500 against Yale. Last year he put on a stunning performance to upset Olympian Dave Lyons with a time of 5:05.5.

The meet will be carried live on Channel 38 at 3:45 and video tapes will be shown on Sunday at 9:30 p.m.