Word: hutter
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...when the loudspeaker blared out the entries for the 440 freestyle, a roar bounced off the walls of the room. Charlie Hutter was going to swim against Johnny Marciones instead of waiting for the relay...
There was only one man in the country who was considered superior to Hutter, and he was Kiphuth's protege, Johnny Macionis. Both Hutter and Macionis were taken to Germany that year. But when Kiphuth was called upon to make the final choice for his relay team, for some unexplained reason, he left Hutter...
...story goes, both Bingham and Hutter were upset, Bingham incensed, Hutter disappointed. And just before the relay race began, Hutter walked over to Kiphuth. Speaking in a mild but firm tone he told the Yale coach that someday he would prove to him that he had done the wrong thing, someday he would prove to him that he should have been on that team...
Well, the United States lost the relay to Japan by a little over a body length, and the story does not pick up again until the following fall. Hutter had been elected captain of the Harvard team and Marcionis captain of Yale, and as the swimming season progressed, it became obvious that the two rival schools had the top teams in the nation...
...mounted the mark, and just before the start, Hutter glanced over at Kiphuth, with determination in his eyes. The whistle blew and the two men hit the water together. Stroke for stroke they matched each other up and down the pool...