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...Because Danzig doesn't know swimming, or knew only what Loftus fed him, he wrote with a sneer, as if Harvard had been upset. He panned Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer, barely recognized Jim Jorgensen's wide-margin records which prove his Eastern leadership and rank him among the top four in the country, and left out Gus Johnson completely. He may have been limited in space, but his greater limitation in knowledge proved more severe as he harshly and unfairly stated the Crimson...
...recorded the excellent time of 2:13.5. That clocking ranks with the top six in the East, but with it, though he forced the Yale entries to swim faster than they ever had before and nearly pulled off a surprise third that no one expected, Macky was panned by Danzig...
Johnson finished fourth in the 50, but in doing so, he reached the best time of his life, 23 seconds flat. This clocking would have placed him fourth in the National Intercollegiates last spring, but to Danzig it wasn't worthy of note...
...beat his own mark for the 100 with a 49.7. He was so close to Yale's Sandy Gideonse, who took second, that no watch could distinguish between them. Yet because Aubrey was magnificent and because the judges awarded second place to Gideonse in both races, Danzig termed Dyer a poor third. Dyer never swam both races so fast in one afternoon in his life. Nor have more than two currently swimming humans. To be the third fastest sprinter around is not enough for Danzig...
That Hawkins exceeded his Crimson record for the breaststroke and pushed Deed Hardin of Yale to a new individual medley mark also escaped Danzig's notice...