Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grover is a 32-year-old Navy veteran from Boston, a resident of Lowell House, and a militant booster of Crimson swimming coaches Hal Ulen and Bill Brooks. It is his considered opinion that Ted Norris, who was graduated in June, is the greatest distance swimmer in America...
...again in 1946, '47, '48, and '49, setting a new course record in 48. This annual five-mile grind from L. Street in South Boston to Squantum and back provides the winner with a small purse and a large trophy in the name of the mayor of Boston. Grover has had little trouble getting the prize money for his seven victories, but last year was the first time the trophy came through...
Despite his amazing record, Grover has averaged only slightly over $2000 a year since he became a full-scale professional in 1947. Last summer, for instance, he placed in four major races: third in the 20 mile world championship at Lake Ontario in July, first in the Boston Harbor Swim in August, third in the two mile race at Lake Ontario later in that month, and first in the endurance test at Lake George in September...
Discharged in '46, Grover entered Harteam, specializing in the 440. In '47 he set vard and became captain of the freshman a 23-minute record for the New England Athletic Union mile, held at City Point, South Boston...
That summer the Scituate Yacht Club hired Grover as swimming instructor and "deckhand." In the course of turning out the clubhouse lights one night, Charlie ignored a peremptory request by a solitary individual he had never seen before that the lights be left on. The individual turned out to be an ex-commodore and person of some standing in the club...