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Individual brilliance was the keynote last night at the M.I.T. pool as the varsity swimmers took seven of nine firsts to chalk up a 46 to 29 win over the Engineers. Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris, who won their own events and then teamed to clinch the 300-yard medley, stood out among the victors. The Yardling team took the curtain-raiser from its Tech opposite number by a 45 to 21 count...
Coach Hal Ulen's men hold an edge in the 220, 440, breaststroke, and diving, while Tech's strongth lies in the sprints. Top men certain of secing action tonight for the Crimson are: Milt Buzby in the 50 and 100-yard sprints, Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440-yard swimming champion, in the 220 and 440, captain Chuck Hoelzer in the medley and 200-yard breaststroke, Ted Norris, national long distance king, in the 220 and 440, and Red Woods in the medley and 150-yard backstroke...
...Particular events are very strong, and one of them boasts a pair of national champs who will race each other to the wire every time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already...
...Jerry Gorman, highest point winner last winter, invaded Canada in August to snatch the Ontario mile championship of the National Athletic Amateur Association. Coach Ulen himself was doing waterfront chores at Camp Wallula, N. H., this summer and Norm Watkins and Tom Woods were assisting...
...Gunner Charles Gorman, who was shot down in Rumania during the war, was in a civilian plane crash last week. Returning from the Cleveland Air Races with a former Army flyer and two young women, the light plane cracked up in the woods near Kenton, Ohio. Charles Gorman's three companions were killed; for about 40 hours he lay in the wreckage. Later, in a Kenton hospital, still woozy from the narcotics which eased the pain of his shattered left arm, he tried to tell what it had been like...