Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michaels has two good reasons for making his claim--Jack McIntyre, Hanover record-holder in the 100-yard freestyle, and Frank Bruch, the Green's champion in the 200-yard breast stroke. This pair is the reason why Dartmouth is slightly favored to win tonight...
...Ulen's men are determined to upset Michael's prediction. Joe Fox, Bill MacVicar, and Mort Hull will be out to stop McIntyre in the 100, and Chuck Hoelzer and Larry Ward will face Bruch in the breast stroke. The meet may ride on their shoulders...
...plays he doesn't know how to go about cashing it. But he is sustained by wonderful dreams and illusions in which he sees Ireland peopled by "golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth" of heir uniforms with "shy, white fingers." He dreams of poets who move through life like gods, never erring, never sinking into sordid realms of spite and pettiness...
...Crimson took five out of nine first places, taking the 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard freestyle, the 200-yard breast stroke, the quarter-mile freestyle (Ted Norris again), and the final relay. Jerry German, Bob Berke, Shep Brown, and Joe Fox were responsible for victory in that crucial race...
...breast stroke--Won by Hoelzer (H) second, Bardes (P); third, Ward (H). Time--2:33.5 seconds...