Word: mettler
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...water, but he nearly caught Riker midway through the race. However, Riker had too much left and held off a tired Hayes to win by two feet 1:56.9. It was a heartbreaker. Hayes, despite his poor start, was still able to hold off Yale's Bill Mettler for the second race in a row. It was Hayes' first loss this season...
Yale, winner of last year's championship, should win again this year, though Army and North Carolina are willing to put up a struggle. Army handed Yale its first dual loss in several years earlier in the season, but that was before Yale sophomores Don Schollander and Bill Mettler -- both Olympians -- became eligible...
Corris will probably swim in the individual medley also, but he's not in the class of Elis Schollander, Mettler, and Bill Wemple. Corris upset Princeton's highly touted Kris Brown in a dual meet and may manage to place in the top six at the Easterns...
Junior Neville Hayes, who has never lost in the 200-yard butterfly while at Harvard, will find some familiar tough company at the Easterns. There's Olympian Bill Mettler, whom Hayes edged by half a second at Yale last week; Army captain Frank Pratt, whose 1:58.2 is slightly higher than Hayes's seasonal best; and Princeton captain John Kalmach, who bowed to Hayes by two feet in the dual meet...
Neville Hayes and Bob Corris predictabl furnished the only real bright spot of the afternoon for Crimson coach Bill Brooks. Hayes eked out one the most satisfying victories of his Harvard career over Yale's healthy Olympian Bill Mettler in the 200-yard butterfly. Hayes set the pace for the first 50 yards relinquished the lead to Mettler for the next 100 and flailed his way back into the lead over the last 50, winning in his fastest time of the season 1:53.5 a half second ahead of Mettler...