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...prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just got faster...
Furuhashi lopped almost a minute off Jimmy's Olympic time (19:18.5) for 1,500 meters-roughly as good as running a mile twelve seconds faster than anybody had ever done it before. Furuhashi's "incredible" performances, later matched by Marshall and Konno, set up for McLane what he now thinks was a psychological barrier. "My main difficulty was that I had already gone as far as I could go. I started at the top." But he started all over again, in four years managed to cut half a minute off his time for the 1,500 meters...
Ohio State won the team crown last year, with the Elis second, Michigan third, and Michigan State fourth. In 1951, Yale took first, Michigan State second, and Ohio State third. The Buckeyes' chances for a repetition of their victory have been reduced by the illness of ace freestyler Ford Konno, who won the 1500-meter, the 440, and was third in the 220 freestyle last year...
...Ohio State's 19-year-old Ford Konno smashed the Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle swimming record and wrapped up victory: his first put the U.S. out in front of the U.S.S.R. for the first time...
...France's Jean Boiteux, who beat out Ford Konno in the 400-meter free-style swimming final, setting an Olympic record of 4 min. 30.7 sec. and inspiring his excited father to plunge for joy, beret and all, into the pool...