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When Art Bosworth, Al Waldron, and Lonnie Stowell slipped through the 300 yard medley relay in 3:03, a yard ahead of Bud Wilcox, Matt Soltysiak, and Jack Perritt, the Bruins had one foot in Davy Jones locker...
Gibbons came in with something for the Bruins to cheer about, but it was all the more apparent that Hal Ulen had completely outmaneuvered Coach Leo Barry of the visitors. In Gibbons, Barry has a man capable of trimming Soltysiak in the butterfly event. In Schaper he had a man who could have won the medley, swimming the free-style leg in place of Porritt. Better Barry strategy would have used these men up before the relay...
...last Brown-Harvard tilt Soltysiak, giving up chances for personal glory in his specialty, swam both 50 and 100 free-style, gaining a second and third. Bud Wilcox, backstroke ace, will duel with Bosworth in the 150 dorsal event and will also compete in the medley. In the distance events Brown has George Gibbons and Art Doherty--last year the former trailed Cutler but touched out Powers in the 440 for the three points which gave the Brunonians the meet...
...packed the pool balcony in the Indoor Athletic Building went properly berserk with joy. Bruin Coach Leo Barry's bald pate glistened with glory as he cavorted in the pool after his team had celebrated the victory by the traditional coach-ducking rite. George Gibbons, Bob Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards...
...second-place in the 50. Goldwasser's career in the pool now reads like a story-book. He has graduated from the ranks of the House swimmers to the Varsity reserves, and finally has outdone himself in first-rate competition to return a dynamic 24.4 against Brown, beating Matt Soltysiak, Bruin iron-man, for second...