Swimmers Should Drown Cornell; Skaters Face Hot and Col Brown

Cornell's weakling swim team comes to the IAB this afternoon to face a Harvard squad untested in its last three outings.

In Coach Pete Carhart's first season, the Big Red from Ithaca have struggled to a 1-5 record. The only Cornell win was by three points over a Penn team which Harvard slugged 69-26.

Harvard Coach Bill Brooks expressed his apprehension about this seemingly easy meet in an interview Wednesday. "They've lost some close meets to some tough teams," Brooks said, "and they have several fine performers."

In fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy.

In addition, Cornell backstroker Don Eames sped to a 2:03.5 clocking in the 200-yard backstroke earlier in the season--that's 0.4 seconds faster than the Harvard Varsity record.

There's not too much else, though-the Crimson should win by at least 15 points.

The Harvard hockey team will have to fight to regain its share of the Ivy League lead when it plays at Brown this afternoon. The game has long been a sellout but will be carried live at 3:30 p.m. over Channel 38.

In a happy case of schizophrenia, the skaters can be in critical condition in the ECAC while riding high among the Ivies. At present. They are a game behind Cornell, which had trouble beating Princeton, 3-1, two nights ago.

Harvard beat the Bruins at Watson Rink two months ago, 3-1, behind Bill Diercks's goaltending and a last-minute goal by Bob Fredo.

In the last ten days, Brown has been brilliant and awful. Down 5-0 to Crimson conqueror B.U. at the Arena, the Bruins stormed back and just missed the upset of the year, 7-6.

Then last Saturday Brown played its worst game of the season and lost to Army, 3-1. Wednesday the Bruins went to New Haven and clobbered Yale, 10-5. Encouraging for Harvard is that the two good games were away, the flop was at home.