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...crack of the starter's gun, the six swimmers plunged into the pool-Jimmy McLane just a splash ahead of the rest. For the first length of the 50-meter pool, the six were almost neck & neck. Then, almost imperceptibly, McLane began to draw away. Porpoising along at a steady 35 strokes to a length, he won last week's National A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship by a full length of Yale's Payne Whitney pool. Among the topflight swimmers Jimmy McLane left in his wake were Olympians John Marshall (of Australia and Yale), Peter Duncan...
...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, 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...
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...
Yale, which swept the 220, and had taken first, second, and fourth in the 1500 meters, turned in another near perfect performance in the 440 freestyle. Jimmy McLane edged Captain Wayne Moore for first by eight-tenths of a second. McLane's time was 3:34.1, his best by three seconds all year. Australian John Marshall swimming for the first time in weeks, took third and the Blue's Marty Smith was fourth. Bill Yorzyk of Springfield was fifth...
...yard freestyle--Won by McLane, Y; 2, Moore, Y; 3, Marshall, Y; 4, Smith, Y; 5, Yorzyk, Springfield. Time...