Top Eastern Swimmers Compete in Pool Today

World and intercollegiate swimming records will go on the market in batches today and tomorrow at the Blockhouse when more than 200 competitors fight for honors in the eighth Eastern League swimming meet.

Form books take a dim view of local chances for individual honors in the marathon. Aside from Joe Verduer of LaSalle, world champion in the breaststroke, and diver Norm Sper of North Carolina, all the laurels seem destined to fall on the brows of the capable Elis, who will bring up the same group of experts that trampled Crimson hopes last week by a 62-13 tally.

Only in the quartermile freestyle does there seem any hope of home triumphs. Jerry Gorman, winner of last year's title, and Ted Norris, undefeated until he swam an off-form race last week, carry the sole hopes here. If Norris can swim a really good race, he may well win.

Tom Drohan, ranking diver who lost only once this year in regular competition, has an outside chance to knock off Sper, a consistent winner ever since his schoolboy days.

Allen Stack, Yale backstroker who set a new intercollegiate record last weekend, will be the co-star of the show along with Verdeur, while Don DeForrest, all-around ace from Penn in three events this winter, should furnish real competition for the topnotchers.

Big contingents are expected from North Carolina--which just racked up its sixth southern title in seven years--and Williams, which cleaned up the New England meet last week at M.I.T. Neither the Crimson nor Yale were represented in the latter affair. The higgest single aggregation is, of course, Yale--with 27 men--, followed by a 17-man group from the home squad.

Larry Ward, surprise placer in the Yale meet, will carry Crimson colors in the breaststroke, as will Joe--Fox and Milt Buzby in the freestyle dashes. Only in the 300-yard individual medley, where Verdeur seems certain of holding his title, will there be no local entry.