SEXTET, ARMY BATTLE TODAY AT WEST POINT

In its second Pentagonal League game of the season the Varsity hockey team meets the Army at West Point this afternoon at 2 o'clock, and on the home front the undefeated Freshmen will attempt to preserve their record against Exeter.

The Crimson is favored to blitz the Cadets, and if all goes well the skaters should have their first League win in three years by tonight. Last winter Harvard set back the Army 5 to 2. Williams, trounced 7 to 1 by the Crimson just after vacation, has edged the Gray and Gold, but otherwise there are no comparative scores.

Coach Chase will start a line of Gordie McGrath, George Gebelein, and Johnny Paine, and the starting defense is composed of Captain Greely Summers and George Dreher. Steve O'Neill will open in the nets.

Having disposed of Andover last Wednesday for its fifth straight victory, the Yardling hockey team goes after still another prep school sextet in the form of Phillips Exeter, at the Boston Skating Club at 8 o'clock tonight.

Coach John Chase plans only one change from the six that started the Andover contest. Fairfield Goodale is replacing Bud Carstensen at right defense. Otherwise, the Wednesday starters, Tommy Ayres, Bill Hamlen, Ned Harding, Captain Dick Mechen, hero of the thriller against the Blues, and goalie Jim Summers, will be on the ice at the face-off.

Exeter, like Andover, has had tough going so far this season. One of its several defeats came at the hands of Belmont Hill, an aggregation which the Yardling polished off 7 to 1 earlier in the year.

Orrin Wood and Art Lee, who played a major part in the first three Crimson victories, are still laid up with colds, and will not dress for tonight's encounter.