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PRINCETON, March 18--Duke Geer of the varsity swimming team finished 12th out of 15 in the 1500-meter free style event at the opening of the three-day Eastern individual championship meet here this evening. This was the only race held today...
...Geer's time was 21:17.7. Springfield's Bill Yorzyk took first in 18:50.7, with his teammate, Bruce Hutchinson, placing second. The Crimson's Dave Hawkins beat both of these men when they swam the 220-yard free style at the IAB in the season's opener on Dec. 12. His clocking of 2:09.6 at that time set a new Crimson record which Jimmy Jorgensen broke last Saturday at Yale. Both Springfield swimmers defeated varsity captain Charley Egan and Geer in the 440 in that same meet. Yorzyk's time then...
Yale's Marty Smith, who lost to Jorgensen's record 2:08.1 in the 220 at New Haven but who won the 440 in 4:44.6, beating Egan and Geer, took a fourth...
Captain Charley Egan will either join Duke Geer in the 440 free style or Marv Sandler in the 150-yard individual medley. He can only swim in one because they are consecutive events...
Either Johnson, Dinsmoor, or Geer will swim second on the 400-yard relay team of Whatley, Sandler, and Rapperport. The three event limitation again prevents this from being the varsity's best entry, but Whatley swam the fastest 100 yards of his life at New Haven last week, and the quartet will not be lame...