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...Martin caught him and just touched the finish line first. His time of 50.3 broke the meet and pool record of 50.5, which he set in the afternoon's heats. Donovan did 50.4. Yale's defending champions, Don Sheff, took third with a 51.5. time. Dave Hedberg, ace Crimson sprinter, and fourth last year, failed to qualify in the afternoon heats...
...rash of records fell in the 50-yard freestyle, as Eli sprinter Kerry Donovan streaked to first place in a sizzling 0:22.5 seconds. He broke the Yale, EISL, and Harvard Pool records by three-tenths of a second. The previous records were five hours old, since Donovan's 0:22.8 performance had eclipsed the old mark of 0:22.9 in yesterday afternoon's trial heats...
...Sprinter Dave Hedberg, undefeated until Saturday, was high point man with two seconds, in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle sprints. He was bested both times buy Kerry Donovan, Yale's fastest sprinter in ten years...
Chances are slimmer in the other events. In the 100, Dave Hedberg must face Frank Chamberlain and Donovan--who is the fastest Yale sprinter in almost ten years. In the 200-yard breast-stroke, Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson will have to beat record-breakers Smith an O'Connor...
...freshman meet might be close, and could conceivably produce an upset. The Bulldog freshman aces are sprinter Hendrik Gideonse and John Phair, a good middle-distance swimmer