Sixty swimmers competing in twelve events are scheduled to begin the second annual individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League at Yale's Payne Whitney Pool in New Haven this afternoon.

A six-man squad will represent the Crimson in Eliland. Coach Hal Ulen, Captain Rusty Greenhood, Captain-elect Eric Cutler, Jim Curwen, Frannie Powers, Chet Sagenkahn, and Ed Hewitt departed yesterday afternoon and are determined to return to Cambridge with a large collection of League titles to make up for the defeats suffered at the hands of Princeton and Yale.

Five Possible Firsts

With Ulen's swimmers doing their best, it is possible that they may elect as many as five crowns. Greenhood, last year's titleholder in both the high and low board events, is favored to win again, especially because his toughest opponents will not be competing this year.

Danny Endweiss, Yale's brilliant 130-point diver, is still out with an appendix operation; Ed Gibson, Navy leaper who has also cracked 130, is unable to enter, and Army's Crandall, another crackerjack diver, probably will not be able to compete. Thus, Rusty has the best chance, of the Harvard delegation, of bringing home the bacon.

Cutler Stands Good Chance

With Springfield's Harry Rawstrom out, Eric Cutler stands a very good chance of triumphing in the quarter-mile. Princeton's Halsey and Parke, Elis Bob Belcher and Gordy Mustin, and Captain Justin Callahan of Columbia will be the men to beat. Cutler is likely to take a few seconds off his personal record of 4:59, while he is sure to receive further competition from his perpetual swimming-mate, Frannie Powers, and Ed Hewitt, who has improved greatly this season.

Powers is said to be capable of hitting the five-minute mark and Hewitt may place well if he swims up to his standard of 5:14.

Curwen Out for Revenge

Jim Curwen will be trying to avenge his sprint defeats in Big Three Competition in the 100, possibly in the 50, and in the 220. Perryman and Duncan of Yale, Van Oss of Princeton, Williams of Penn, Armstrong of Dartmouth, and Garrett of Army constitute formidable opposition for him in the 50, with Gar- rett the underdog favorite.

Captain Johnny Good of Yale will lead the competition in the 100. He has swum the four laps under 53 seconds this season while Curwen, who tied for second in last year's Nationals, hopes to return to form. Powers may also try the century.

Curwen is a potent threat to Good's 2; 14 supremacy in the furlong, while Cutler and Powers are all in the running. Big Jim wanted to enter the quarter, too, but the authorities said no because he has not swum it this year. Chet Sagenkahn will enter the dives and should do well if he concentrates on the high-board. Art Bosworth, Bob White, and George Dana of the Crimson team are staying home because of health and studies.

The order of events: today--trials in four events in the afternoon and finals in the 300 individual medley, 440 free-style, 50 free-style, and one-meter dive in the evening; tomorrow--four trials in the afternoon and finals in the 300 medley (teams), 220 free-style, three-meter dive, 100 free-style, 150 backstroke, 220 breastroke, 400 Freshman relay, and 400 Varsity relay in the evening