Princeton, N.J., March 18--Captain Howland Stoddard was the solo Harvard wrestler to qualify in the first day of competition in the Eastern Intercollegiates here today, when he throw Barnet of Columbia with a half-nelson and body at 4.01, and then pinned Masher of Cornell in the semi-finals with a hammerlock and half-nelson at 4.28.

Johnny Harkness reached the semi-finals and took one point for a fall when Pappas of Columbia was disqualified for crawling off the mat, but he was later thrown by Shaffer of Penn State. In his first bout, Bill Glendinning beat Cobb of Cornell by a time advantage of 8.56, only to be edged in the semi-finals by Chew of Princeton by a referee's decision in overtime.