Swimmers Hope for Second Place In Three-Day Eastern Seaboards

Harvard's swimming team will be trying to make up for a somewhat disappointing regular season when it competes today through Saturday in the Eastern Seaboard Championships at Dartmouth.

The Crimson got off to a good start in December, and it appeared that a second place finish behind Yale in the Eastern League was well within reach. But losses to both Dartmouth and Princeton put Harvard into fourth place, where it also finished last year. The Crimson's objective at the Easterns will be to outpoint the Indians and the Tigers and capture second behind Yale, the inevitable winner of the meet.

Though Harvard lost to Dartmouth by 31 points a month ago, there is no reason to concede the Big Green a higher place than Harvard. "Dartmouth is just coming out of exams, and they traditionally don't do well." captain Mike Cahalan said yesterday.

Steve Krause is Harvard's most probable winner. For the last month, Krause has been swimming 7000 yards daily with freshman Henry Watson, and he could win either the 1650-yard freestyle or the 400-yard individual medley, Krause once held the world record in the 1650.

Dan Kobick and Cahalan also will probably collect a number of points for the Crimson. Kobick will swim the back troke at both 100 and 200 yards, and he will also be part of the medley relay team. Cahalan is the defending champion, though not the favorite, in the 50-free, and is also one of the leading entrants in the 100-free.

Harvard's 880-yard freestyle relay team has a good chance for second behind Yale. Last year, despite a slow 1:51.1 leg by John Bragg Harvard missed qualifying for the Nationals by only 0.2 seconds. The other three members of that group-Dave Powlison. Toby Gerhart, and Krause-are back, and they will be joined by speedy sophomore Al Ackerman.

Tennessee's Edgar

There are five events today: the 400-yard medley relay, 50-free. 500-free, one-meter diving, and 200 yard individual medley. The relay of Kobick, John Munk, Sieve Banmgart, and Cahalan should make the finals but will probably have to settle for fifth or sixth place.

Cahalan and Paul Horvitz will swim in the unpredictable 50-free, and event in which Yale's Rich May is favored. "But if Dave Edgar comes up from Tennessee, he'll blow everyone out of the pool." Cahalan predicted, Edgar a sophomore, has done 20.5, a full second better than May.

500-free

Harvard may score will in the 500-free with Greg Huff, Powlison, and perhaps Krause. Yale Olympian John Nelson, the best distance free-styler in the East, is apparently passing up the Easterns to prepare for the AAU Championships.

Last year, the Crimson did well the first day, but then faltered the next two days to end up eighth. Its best finish ever was third in 1962.