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John Spivak, leading Varsity sprinter, will have it easy. All he has to do is beat veteran Barney Ewell, who cleaned up in the IC4A's and nationals for Penn State 10 years ago and is still going strong. Coach Mikkola is looking past the K. of C. carnival to February 7, when his Crimson machine gets its first formal workout of the season against Princeton and Army at West Point...
...Ruby, scheduled to run the second leg tonight, provides perhaps the strongest wallop. Ruby, Wheeler and Thayer, by the way, all got their cinder schooling in Milton. Ruby was a star sprinter and quarter miler for the High School in 1944-45, the same year Thayer was cleaning up across town at the Academy. Wheeler set an Academy quarter mile record a couple of years earlier...
Quarter-miler Cliff Wharton and sprinter Dean Dunlavey were the only additional entries yesterday as the Varsity entrained for West Point, where they have a formal cinder date with Army, Missouri, Dartmouth and Columbia this afternoon. Forty competitors, a manager, coach, and trainer made up the Crimson encourage...
...Sprinter Bill Lambdin showed up well in a fast 24-second 50 yards against the Blue, but here again Bill MacVickar should outstroke him. Ex-Harvardian Edwin Townesly, reputed to be out of condition from extra sentry duty, should be moderately easy pickings for Jerry Gorman in the 220-yard freestyle...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...