Varsity Squads Have It Easy Today

BASKETBALL

Harvard's varsity basketball squad riding the crest of a two-game winning streak, travels to Hanover. New Hampshire this evening to try for three in a row against Dartmouth.

The Big Green, 3-8 in the Ivy League, split a pair of league encounters last weekend. The Dartmouth cagers topped Yale Friday night, 79-73, but came back to reality Saturday night against Brown. The Bruins, stung by Harvard's 64-63 decision the night before, took it all out on the hapless Green, 111-81.

The Crimson five, meanwhile, boosted its Ivy record above the .500 mark last weekend with wins over Brown and Yale (89-86 in overtime). Tom Sanders's squad now stands 6-5 in the league (9-13 overall) with only three games remaining in the season, all Ivy encounters.

Penn is currently the top Ivy squad, with an 11-1 slate, followed by Princeton, Brown and then Harvard.

SQUASH

Jack Barnaby's Crimson squash team, decimated recently by illness and injury, hosts Yale this afternoon in Hemenway gymnasium at 3 p.m.

Harvard, with only one loss on its record (to Princeton's 2-7) edged a strong Penn squad last Saturday, 5-4 to assure itself of a second-place finish in the Ivy league. The Elis, meanwhile, received a 1-8 trouncing at the hands of the Tigers Saturday.

Today's match wraps up the dual meet season for captain PETER BLASKER (above) and his squad.

FENCING

We had a rather demoralizing outing last weekend," fencing captain Gordon Rutledge said after his squad dropped three in a now to Cornell, Penn and Columbia by identical 13-14 margins.

Tonight, Rutledge and his teammates have A chance to revenge their lost weekend whom they take on Holy Cross in Worcester. "It should not be too rough," Rutledge commented, in fact, it should be a rather light bout."

Harvard closes its dual meet season this Saturday against Yale.