The men's tennis team will seek its seventh straight victory, and its fourth straight in Eastern League play, when the Crimson hosts a highly respected Dartmouth squad at 2 p.m. today.

Harvard would rate as a slight favorite in the contest, but for one thing--captain and number one singles player Todd Lundy will sit out today and perhaps until the May 3 Yale match, with a mysterious muscle injury along his ribcage. The whole Crimson lineup will shift, with Don Pompan playing one and Bob Horne taking over at six.

Andy Chaikovsky defeated Scott Walker in a challenge match yesterday, so "Chaik" will wheel and deal at second singles while Walker plays at three.

All-Ivy sophomore John Steel leads Dartmouth, which has compiled a 6-1 record (2-1 league) so far this campaign. The Green netmen have duplicated Harvard's 6-3 wins over Navy, Williams and Penn. Dartmouth's lone loss came at the hands of Columbia, a team Harvard handled by--you guessed it--6-3.

If the Crimson emerges victorious from the toss-up match, the win will put Harvard into a tie with Princeton for first place in the Eastern League, at 4-0. Yale holds down third place in the standings with a 6-1 mark, followed by Dartmouth and Columbia (5-2).

The match will take place either outdoors or indoors on Palmer Dixon's slick courts, depending on the weather and Dartmouth coach John Kenfield's preference.