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Swimmers. Everyone expected Eleanor Holm to win the 300-yd. medley race. Her specialty is the back stroke used on the middle lap, after a 100-yd. breast stroke start and before the 100-yd. crawl at the finish. Instead, wiry little Katherine Rawls wiggled to a 5-yd. lead in the first lap, held it through the second, crawled farther ahead in the last lap and won in 4:45⅛ four seconds faster than the previous Holm world's record. Next day Minnow Rawls won the 220-yd. breast stroke championship with a new U. S. record...
Eleanor Holm, 17, of the Women's Swimming Association of New York: the 100-yd. back stroke and the 300-yd. medley races...
Crimson chances in the distance medley are "as good as anybody else's," Farrell predicted. Dodge will take care of the quarter, Hallowell the half, and Fox the three-quarter distance, with Cobb as anchor man. Record will meet strong competition in the 120-yard high hurdles from Beard of Alabama and Sentman of Ohio. The Ohio star was a winner at the National Championships...
Harvard will open its Spring track season this afternoon on Franklin Field, at the University of Pennsylvania, when Coach E. L. Farrell will send two quartets into action in the sprint medley and distance medley relays, against a field including the strongest Eastern track teams, gathered for the first test of the season at the 37th annual Quaker City relay carnival. Record will compete in the 120-yard high hurdles...
Record and Dodge will run the furlong distances in the sprint medley, Kollmyer the quarter, and Cobb the half. "This race will be a gamble," Farrell stated yesterday; "Penn will be strong." Shea, Northeastern star who broke the college 440-yard record last week with a 50 2-5 second time, will run on the Huskies' sprint medley four. M. I. T. will have only one veteran, Jewett, on its quartet...