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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confirmation of last week's rumors of a huge record war arrives with announcement that Eli Oberstein, formerly record manager of Victor, leaves the company, taking with him Tommy Dorsey, Art Shaw, Larry Clinton, Sammy Kaye, and Dick Todd to form a new record company to be known as Discs Incorporated. General feeling in the industry is that this will seriously impair the Victor line, observes pointing to the atrophy of Brunswick records after Jack Kapp left in 1934, taking Guy Lombardo, Casa Loma, the Dorsey brothers, and other along to form Decca Records...
...yard breastroke--Won by Dick Hough (P); second Paul Metcalf (Y); third, Henry Kleppinger (Y). Time, 2 min. 22.2s. (Now World's record, former record of 2 min.32.5s. made by John Kasley, Michigan...
...Tiger captain Dick Hough, however, who provided the feature performance of the evening when he annexed the 200-yard breastroke in 2:22.2, a new world's record. Many of the Yale times were sparkling--Johnny Good's 2:15.2 in the furlong and 53.5 century should give the Crimson mermen something to shoot at. Eric Perryman and Russ Duncan provided one of the big upsets of the evening when they both finished ahead of Hank Van Oss in a 23.6 50, another mark which Hal Ulen's boys have not touched yet this season...
...yard medley relay--Won by Princeton (Al Van de Weghe, Dick Hough, Herb Moeller); second, Yale (John Burns, Ed Gesner, Bill Moonan) Time, 2 min. 54.3s (New pool record. Former record 2.55.1 made by Lake Shore...
Practice will last until May 1 with one week out for the Easter vacation. In that space of time Dick hopes to get a real line on the Freshmen and to do a great deal of the necessary work towards next fall's success...