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...Hess Yntema, after a fluke wave emptied into his mouth causing him to miss a stroke during the butterfly leg of the medley relay, turned in an outstanding triple, the only one of the three-day meet. He owned the 200-yd. distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody...
...fitting climax to a superbly contested meet, Crimson anchorman Hess Yntema gamely closed the gap on Tiger sprinter Mal Howard, only to have the electronic clocking system declare the Tiger quartet a .4 second victor, giving Princeton a slim 419-411 final edge in the overall competition...
Sophomore Hess Yntema then nailed down his third individual championship in as many tries by blitzing the field in the 200-yd. butterfly. Peter Tetlow, swimming in his second final of the evening, captured an important fifth place...
...would be tempting, but quite unfair, to pin the loss on Hess Yntema's disqualification in the medley relay, since without Hess's Spitzian efforts of winning every other time he entered the water, the meet would not have been as close...
...after Hess Yntema swam the fastest 50 yards of his life in the first laps of the butterfly, he "swallowed four or five gulps of water, Harvard assistant coach Joe McGuire said. "He stopped for a second," McGuire said, "and must have slipped in a breaststroke or so when he started up again...