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Bill Smith's principal opponent will be Yaleman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 8, 1943). Last week Sprinter Ford became the first man in history to swim 100 yds. in under 50 seconds in a regular-sized pool. He drenched his own world's record with 49·7· But at longer distances, Smith looks like the better swimmer. He holds 23 world's free-style records, from 2:07.1 for 220 yds. to 18:03.8 for 1,400 meters. He also is anchor man on the Great Lakes Naval Training Station relay team that holds three...
That was a U.S. swimming milestone. But the chief thrill at last week's meet was a duel between two youngsters vying for the title of America's greatest freestyle sprinter-Yale's 19-year-old Alan Ford, who recently broke the world's 100-yd. free-style record, and Ohio State's 18-year-old Bill Smith Jr. At meet's end the question of who was greatest was not conclusively answered. Smith beat Ford easily in the 220; Ford beat Smith easily in the 100, neither in world-record time. But there...
Typical of what Jaakko Mikkola has had to expect this winter was the announcement a day before the meet that Fred Carr, the College's best sprinter was to enter the Army today. Carr didn't compete, of course, Joe Moore and Eddis Smith placed second and third in the 100, though, and Paul Laskin garnered a second...
From last year's Freshman squad, tabbed as one of the best in the College's history, come sprinter Fred Carr, quarter-miler Max Pincus, half-milers Wally Clubb and Frank Mason, miler Dick Bryan, two miler Archio Lyon, high jumper Alex Rogerson, and Willo Fisher (winner of the 35-pound weight event in the IC4A two weeks ago) and gridder Sid Smith in the weights...
...Crimson swimmers prepared for future Ivy League competition at the Worcester Boys Club this weekend, completely dominating the two-day championship held there. Sprinter John Eusden, in winning three events, set two New England junior records, and Dave Barnes chalked up two more in the 220 and 440 free style races...