Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernard Griffin looks like the best of the Sophomores in the sprint events and he will be aided by Charles Boozan, Jim Green, Art McClure, all veterans, and Tom Sullivan, last year's Freshman captain...
...promises to be the most hotly contested event of the evening. Charlie Hutter and George Scott '34 will meet Art Bosworth and Dave Stearns in the two-lap sprint. Scott who has been improving ever since he left college, and who beat Hutter last year, has been fast in practice time trials. Although he may well thrash out another win, all four men should finish within a half-second...
...only do they afford the season's first test of a usually green Varsity, but because they present the unusual and sometimes pathetic spectacle of some of Harvard's all-time aquatic here, Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features the strongest Alumni springboard pair in many years...
...their names can rarely be predicted in advance since business, wives, and other ties make heavy inroads on the veterans' time. Some of them come to the meet as the result of a last minute impulse; in fact, it was only last year that Don McKay '38, redheaded sprint man, was drafted from the pool balcony where he had been content as a spectator and a n escort...
...worthy Ulen had been fostering secret hopes of perhaps snatching an American record for the distance, since the event was to be swum only once during the season. Gentlemen such as Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Barker, and McKay were then Hal's disciples--a potent enough aggregation for any sprint record...