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...three years ago. On anybody else's team, Moore would have been a fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly elected Team Captain Moore, 20, finally kicked the "third-stringer" tag far into his own foamy wake...
...meter pool on the old New York World's Fair grounds, Swimmer Moore plunged into the water for the final 400-meter free-style heat of the U.S. Olympic tryouts. Marshall, who will compete for Australia in the Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet...
...finish, Jimmy McLane had swum the fastest 400 meters of his life. But Moore was faster. With McLane nine feet behind him, Wayne had covered the distance in 4 min. 36.2 sec., nearly five seconds under the Olympic record. Only three swimmers have ever beaten Wayne's time: Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Ohio's Konno, who surprised most tryout watchers last week by having to thrash desperately to squeeze out his third place and Olympic berth behind Moore and McLane...
...Champion John Marshall in meet record time of 18:15.5, breaking Marshall's record by more than three seconds. Hawaii's wiry (5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb.) star, who swims for Ohio State, edged the U.S.'s (and Yale's) 1948 Olympic winner, Jimmy McLane, by six feet, Marshall by 60. Konno also won the 440, placed third...
...seven Crimson swimmers who left yesterday for the N.C.A.A. championships at Princeton saw Yale's "undefeatable" swimmers Jimmy McLane and defending champion John Marshall defeated last night by Ohio State's outstanding freshman, Ford Konno, in the 1,500 meter freestyle event...