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...Dillon pool was packed to the rafters last week for the N.C.A.A. swimming championship. But few in the crowd had eyes for Michigan's Australian-born John Davies in the 200-yd. breaststroke event. Almost everyone was watching the front-running battle between Princeton's Bob Brawner, the world record holder, and Ohio State's Jerry Holan. Then, at the halfway mark, rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) Davies began to move...
Surging through the water with tremendous power, Davies cut down Brawner's lead. At the 150-yard mark, Davies took over the lead. Sprinting all the way to the finish, he won by a full five yards over Ohio's Holan. Princeton's Brawner, who had never been beaten in intercollegiate competition, was third. Davies' time: 2 :12.9, beating Brawner's world record by two-tenths of a second. The next night everyone was watching Davies as he whipped the field in the 100-yd. event in 58.8, breaking Brawner's intercollegiate record...
Tiger John Stone handed Dave Hedberg his first loss of the season in the 100, world champion Bob Brawner ran away with the breaststroke, and the undefeated Princeton medley relayern remained undefeated. Hal Ulen's Crimson won the other seven events, although several of them would have had photo finishes if a photographer had been there...
...Tiger, and only sure winner for the invaders, is Captain Bob Brawner who holds the world record of 2:91.1 in the 200-yard breaststroke and is both Eastern Intercollegiate and N.C.A.A. champion in the 100. Princeton's best sprinter is John Stone, who tied his college record of 23.5 in the 50-yard free-style a week ago. But both Dave Hedberg and John McNamara of the Crimson have been under that time...
...Australia's (and Michigan's) Jerry Davies, who upset Princeton's Bob Brawner, defending champion and 200-yd. world record holder, in the 220-yd. breast stroke. CJ Hawaii's (and Ohio State's) Dick Cleveland, holder of the unofficial world record for the 100-yd. free-style (0:49.6), who took the A.A.U. event in 0:50. ¶Ohio State's Jack Taylor, who edged out Yale's Olympic winner, Allen Stack, in the 100-yd. backstroke by a wrist flip. ¶The N.H.S.C. 400-yd. free-style relay quartet (Dick Thoman...