The best for a championship among those traveling to Berkeley for the NCAA's is Tony Lynch, IC4A champion in the low hurdles. Tony's 61.6 clocking was the best in the East until Larry Livers of Villanova sped to a record 61.0 in winning the U.S. Track and Field Federation Meet in California Saturday. But Livers has never beaten Lynch over the low hurdles, and it's notorious that Eastern runners improved their times on fast surface Western tracks. Lynch's best low hurdle time, for instance, was his 51.4, good for fifth place in last year's NCAA's.

Art Croasdale, Harvard's captain, took a third place in that meet at 189 ft., 10 in., then the best throw of his life. 189 feet might not even win a place this year; seven hammer throwers have gone over 190 feet, and one, Alex Schulten of Bowdoin, reached 202 ft., 4 1/2 in.

But Croasdale had improved too, and if he equips his season's best, 194 ft., 5 in., he'll be in contention.

Sprinter Wayne Andersen reached the semifinals of the NCAA indoor 60-yard dash, but he still hasn't hit his peak outdoors. He has run the 100 yard dash in 9.6 and 9.7 with the aid of slight following winds. In the IC4A finals, however, he tripped at the start, and finished last, leaving his official best time at 9.8.

Chris Parade was another place winner in last year's NCAA's, when he high-jumped 6 ft., 10 1/2 in, and took fourth place. Pardee injured his ankle this winter and didn't jump outdoors until May, however. His best effort this spring has been 6 ft., 9 in.

Discus thrower John Bakkensen has won the IC4A title for the last two years and holds the Harvard record at 179 ft., 9 in. With Texas A & M's Randy Matson out of the meet with a pulled muscle, a throw in the mid-180's could win for Bokkensen.

Walt Hewlett, a mercurial distance runner who has lost only one dual-meet race in his life but who sometimes collapses in big meets, will run in the sixmile. Hewlett was fifth in last fall's NCAA cross-country championship and 21st is the Boston Marathon.

The other two Harvard entries will be 220-yard runners Mike Hauch and Joe Sam Robinson. Hauck won the Heps championship in a record 22.1 around a curve. Robinson has run a 21.4 on a straightaway.