Paradoxical plenty confronts Varsity swimming Coach Hal Ulen these days as he watches his men plowing up and down Indoor Athletic Building swimming pool lanes in preparation for the opening meet a week from Saturday with the Greenwood A. C. Particular events are very strong, and one of them boasts a pair of national champs who will race each other to the wire every time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already.

Somewhat equally rich is the 200 yd. breast stroke, with Captain Chuck Hoelzer, a power here, supported by Don Ulen, son of the Coach, returning to water sport after three dry years of China duty with the Marine Corps. Short On Sprinters

Quality Sprinters are rarely a scarce commodity around the blockhouse basement; because they condition faster from football fan fatigue. But this year the short distance staff is not quite up to the pace of the rest.

Most outstanding 50 yd. man now present and accounted for, with the eligibility of Norm Watkins and Bill MacVicar still in doubt, is Milt Busby. The latter operative, who learned his sleek stroke in the warm Caribbean waters which wash the Puerto Riean literal, is currently paired with Al Weatherhead in the 100 freestyle.

Weatherhead is one of a talented trio of ex-Freshmen swimmers who established a medley relay record in last year's yearling Yale meet with 3:12.1 for the 300 yards. Breast stroker Larry Ward may still work into the lineup, and backstroker Tom Woods is the leading backstroker. Woods has other distinctions besides being the third College man to bear his name, and son of Thomas S. Woods, JF, an all-American Crimson football player in 1920. He broke the Freshman backstroke record on his own again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie Kelley, although disconsolate over the loss of Bob Aaron, still has one of the best board men ever to mount the tower in Tom Drohan, who should have numerous high degrees of difficult feats to unveil by the time the team faces the Greenwood A. C.