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Despite losing four first places to the visitors, the Varsity swimmers scored a decisive victory over the Providence Boys Club, 46-15 Wednesday night in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. Chrostowski was the individual star of the meet, winning three of the visitors' firsts in the quarter-mile, furlong and century. Higgins, breaststroker of the Providence outfit, also shone by turning in a time of two minutes, 32 4-5 seconds, a new pool record...
...Over the furlong George C. Scott, Jr. '34 will be pushed hard by O'Brien, the Boys' Club entry, as will be the Crimson starters in the 100-yard freestyle. The visitors' time for the fifty is just one-fifth of a second slower than Scott's record time of 24 2-5 seconds...
...Wallace '35, and George S. Scott '34 will start the 50-yard sprint, facing Bowdoin's sole star, Carson, the Maine hope in both this event and the dive. Wallace, who established a Freshman record for the furlong when he swam against Yale for the 1935 outfit, teamed with Fallon over this stretch last season. In the century sprint, George Wightman '34, and Herbert M. Howe '34, both experienced men, will carry the Crimson colors...
...Winooka, thoroughbred Australian sprint champion who made his Eastern debut fortnight ago by finishing a miserable last (TIME, Nov. 6): two six-furlong races, at Pimlico...
...half-length. They saw Winston Guest astride Lady Newberry win a thunderous race for polo ponies after his cousin Mike Phipps fell from a slipping saddle in the stretch. But what they enjoyed most, and what many of them had come specially to see, was the four-furlong race for lady riders, an innovation in United Hunts meets...