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...Skating Carnival (Sat. 2:30 p.m., NBC Television), featuring Olympic Champion Dick Button...
Navy, the defending champion in the epee and saber divisions and team leader in three-weapon totals, won handily in the first two but was deposed as team champion by CCNY. with a first in the foils, a second in the epee and a third in the saber...
Dunster's champion quintet will play host to Timothy Dwight College of Yale at Hemenway this afternoon, as the Lowell swimmers, winners in intramural tank competition this winter, travel to New Haven to tackle Silliman in its home waters...
Yale's great backstroker, Allen Stack, and Joe Verduer, world-champion butterfly specialist, from LaSalle, hooked up in the 300-yard medley relay at the Blockhouse last night and the result brought a crowd of 1500 to their feet roaring, as the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships ended...
Stack, national collegiate champion, who had cruised to an easy 150-yard backstroke win a couple of hours earlier, jumped the Elis out to a full five second lead on the first leg, but then Verdued took over and on the butterfly leg pulled to within a foot of Yale's Joe Seldon. By this time, the jammed house, weary from watching Yale sweep to three firsts and a second in the first four events on the card, was yelling for LaSalle. Jack Lumsden, LaSalle freestyler, finally nailed Don Irwin in the final three yards and won by about half...