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...process, Harvard and Pool marks in he 400-yard medley relay were cut eight and a half seconds. Bill Murray, bigo lalk, John Hammond, and Pete Macky cut the 4:08.5 mark set January 12 in the new event...
Perhaps more significant was the one-two victory in the 200-yard backstroke; Hammond and Murry, both sophomores, finished in that order ahead of Greer of Navy. This improvement in a varsity weak spot was clouded by the fact that Yale swimmers recorded times nearly five seconds faster over the weekend...
Harvard was not left out of the record breaking, however. Two swimmers, Chouteau Dyer and John Hammond, bettered Harvard and M.I.T. marks during exhibition atches. The records probably will not be official, however, since the times were clocked at an exhibition...
...Hammond, a sophomore, completed the 100 yard dolphin, or "fishtail" breast-stroke in 57.9, to smash the M.I.T. pool mark of 1:10.1. He also bettered a Harvard time of 58.6 seconds set by himself this year...
...match between Hammond and Bill Veck, M.I.T. varsity swimmer, provided the evening's most unusual performance. The Harvard man swam the breast stroke, While Veck paced him with freestyle. The engineer led by a small margin for the first fifty yards, but Hammond overtook him and won in the final feet. vard did not swim competitively. Dave Hawkins '56, former Crimson varsity swimmer and a 1952 Australian Olympic team member, now a graduate student, illustrated the evolution of the breast stroke in a series of demonstrations...