Word: merritts
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Shrout was not the only surprise for Harvard freshman coach Benn Merritt. Alan Birch churned to a first in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:15, a race from which Merritt expected only third. Merritt also credited Rich Tompkins and Peter Alter with good performances under pressure. The Crimson's iron men against Army were Shrout, Peter Adams, Steve Coy, and Phil Chase, each of whom swam two events and then combined to form the relay tearn that decided the meet in the final race...
...freshmen contest, four of Coach Benn Merritt's swimmers swam three events each as the Yardlings beat the Plebes 53-42, winning in the final relay. The four, Phil Chase, Stephen Coy, Peter Adams, and Bill Shrout scored 34 points together and took the freestyle without trouble...
Harvard's John Bakkensen should repeat last spring's discus victory, but the Middies have some powerful point potential in Chip Jackson, who throws in the 160's, and Terry Merritt and Tom Turner, both in the high...
When the bus arrived, Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark leaped aboard, armed with a billy and an electric cattle prod. He jammed the billy in Merritt's belly, and he applied the prod to the photographer's neck. With the aid of a deputy, he threw Merritt off the bus, there prodded him some more as he lay on the ground. All this was caught on film by Merritt's unmolested colleague, Cameraman Ed Jones of the Birmingham News. Merritt's equipment-$800 worth-was smashed with such enthusiasm that the six Negro pupils, who stayed...
Photographer Merritt was released with the order to "walk the hell out of here"; last man to shove him along was Alabama Public Safety Director Al Lingo. When Governor George Wallace heard what had happened he told Lingo that "this sort of thing must not be allowed to happen," and he called Merritt in to shake his hand warmly. "They all expressed dismay," said Merritt, "but it seemed to me there was something insincere about it." He was right. The next day Wallace gave the newspapers his version of the incident: Merritt, the Governor claimed, had resisted the sheriff, would...