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Last week the fastest British ship in service was sold to the knackers for ?80,000 to be broken up for scrap. Because she was the world's biggest, longest, fastest liner at her launching in 1907, because for nearly a quarter-century she flew the Blue Ribbon speed pennant of the North Atlantic, the passing of R. M. S. Mauretania marked for many an ocean-going oldster...
...seven Records at the meet, five were set by the University of Washington's famed junior,. Jack Medica. He swam the 220-yd. free-style in 2:10.8, fastest competitive time on record. Next evening he won the 500-yd. free style in 5:16.3, breaking the accepted world's record for that distance by 10 seconds, setting marks for 250, 300 and 400 yd. en route. Sixth important record was 1 :36.1 for the 150-yd. back stroke, made by Adolph Kiefer...
Coach Hoople has not yet made up his mind as to which is the first Varsity fifty boat and which is second. The crew stroked by Whitney has more power than that stroked by Eaton but Eaton's is smoother and which will prove the fastest is still a moot point. The seatings follow: stroke, Lawrence V. Eaton '36; 7, Hayden Estey '36; John L. Swasey '35; 5, Edward T. Gignoux '35; 4, John L. Lyman '37; 3, Morris Piaelzer, 2nd '35; 2, Eliot Pierce '36; bow, Robert S. Chafee '36; and cox, Edward T. Barker '37. The other boat...
...meet this year against Yale at the Indoor Athletic Building, pointing to the fact that the National Collegiate Swimming Meet to be held on Friday and Saturday in the Crimson pool will be a speedy record-breaking one. Many coaches regard the Harvard tank as the fastest in the country...
...Harvard" was originally the "New York," one of the finest and fastest passenger vessels then afloat, with the long, graceful lines and clipper bow usually seen on yachts of that period. To save confusion with the flag-ship "New York," its name had to be changed on entering naval service. The donation of the six-pounder caused it to be rechristened the "Harvard...