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...course, all has not been roses for the Bruin team this year, as late last fall they lost Bill Irvine, captain-elect and the team's ace diver, to the Army. To replace Irvine, Brown is depending upon sophomore John Ahearn, who starred last year for the yearlings, and Junior Hank Gossler. From the accounts received concerning these men they are very definitely to be depended on to give Shaw McCutcheon, Harvard;s top diver, a stiff fight for first place in the diving event...
...past three meets, the Crimson will be depending chiefly on star backstroker Bill Drucker, who will probably let himself go all out tonight for the first time this season, ace diver Shaw McCutcheon, who garnered 108.8 points in the meet with Greenwood last Saturday night, and "Big John" Eusden, who has been consistently cutting down his 50-yard free style times throughout the present campaign...
...Crimson squad is not up to its full strength, for Shaw McCutcheon, Ulen's ace diver, will not be able to compete. Wendell Smith will take McCutcheon's place, but it seems at this point that M.I.T. has the dive fairly well sewed up. The Techmen are already strong in this event, and the "McCutcheon handicap" should just about do the trick...
...bugle blared, the Stars & Stripes were raised, a diver swan-dived from a high platform, and a dozen white doves fluttered away to "tell the four corners of the earth" that St. Louis was host to a national swimming meet. The doves (actually squab bought from a local poultry dealer) got no farther than the four corners of the pool, but the 54th annual men's outdoor swimming championships went ahead just the same...
...except for some further gestures of rescue. Diver George Crocker slid down a grapnel line to 370 feet, found that his special mixture of helium and oxygen (to keep nitrogen out of the blood stream, thus forestall bends) was failing him. Later, two divers did reach the bottom, in the subterranean dark and pressure could see nothing, do nothing. On the third day, the Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Stark) in Washington announced: "The decision must be to accept the situation as loss of naval personnel at sea, who can best be honored as men still at their station...