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But the Middles erased the margin in the sixth, as untidily as always. Naye blooped a single into right, and Grate booted Spaeth's hard grounder at shortstop to put men on first and second. Bill Dukiet hit a hopper to Jim Tobin at third that took a crazy bounce...
The Middles are a strong, experienced ball club which finished second in the EIBL last year and could be even better now. The game will probably be one of the most important on the team's schedule, and a large crowd is expected.
The meet, which starts at 4 p.m., should begin with an easy Tiger victory in the 400-yard medley relay. Their quartet of Jim Kremer, Bob Kahrl, captain John Kalmbach, and Bill Kjellstrom thrashed the Middles in 3:41, three seconds faster than Harvard's best.
The Middles won nine of 11 events, including sweeps in the dive, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard backstroke. All that with their star, Eastern breaststroke champ Dallas Clarke, swimming only once and losing eight yards on his leg of the medley relay.
Though Harvard's play showed occasional signs of early-season raggedness and less-than-precision shots, it's comforting to see the Crimson win all the way down the ladder against such scrappers as the Middles. Even opening-day jitters or a few flukes usually cost somebody a match against...