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Navy's swimmers got their Christmas present two weeks early on Saturday at Annapolis. Harvard's Bill Shrout had a 102 degree fever and could only swim in one event, the 50 yard freestyle, which he lost in mediocre time...
...Crimson's sure point-getters, free styler Bill Shrout and butterflyer Neville Hayes, have been bothered by illness this week. Shrout has not practiced for two days. In a meet as close as this one is likely to be, Shrout and Hayes will have to swim extra races. They failed to have enough reserve strength to beat Army; they had best have it against Navy...
Going into the 500, Army led by a score of 40 to 30. Since a final relay victory would be useless without five points in the freestyle, Coach Bill Brooks put sprint ace Bill Shrout and strongman Neville Hayes in the race...
...Shrout had already topped Williams by a yard in the 200-yard freestyle with a near-record time of 1:48.9, and barely three minutes earlier, he had climbed from the pool after a 49.1 victory in the 100. But Williams, with a 40-minute rest since the 200, pulled away steadily and won by a good fifteen yards. Army's Ken Cummings held off Shrout by three yards to clinch the meet...
...would have taken a super-human feat for Hayes to have upset Williams, either. Only one event before Shrout's 100 victory, he had defeated Army Captain Frank Pratt with a 2:02.6 timing in the 200-yard butterfly...