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Yardling swimmers elected Ronald P. Mischner of Wigglesworth and Calal, Colombia, South America, as team captain Tuesday. Mischner is a graduate of Lawrenceville Academy. He swam on the 800 yard relay team which took second last summer in the Colombia National Games...
Another bright spot in the gloom is Griff Winthrop, from Canandaigua, N.Y. As Canandaigua Academy captain last year he swam everything but the breast stroke. For the Yardlings, he specializes in the 150-yard individual medley, where he has turned in a 1:44.6. Brooks professes high hopes...
Dave Harper from the Evanston High team which was twice Illinois State Swimming Champion, swims the 200-yard free-style in 2:16, though he only swam back or breast stroke in high school. The two Exeter swimmers who round out the team core are Cy Hamlin with a 56.1 for the 100-yard free-style and Dave Falk, with a 1:10.3 for the 100-yard breast stroke. Falk is a brother of varsity swimmer Stgo Falk...
This relay was the only event Coach Hal Ulen tried to win against the hapless Engineers. Otherwise, he benched all his first-line men or swam them in unfamiliar events...
...being made undersea. Cameramen, who stood and floated behind the cameramen who filmed Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea off Nassau and Jamaica, recorded an eye-catching documentary on the difficulties and hazards of making movies below the surface. At one point a huge, uninvited shark swam into the middle of a scene. Cameramen, directors and technicians, wearing light Aqua Lungs and flippers, could swim away, but actors weighted down by 225-lb. costumes could only gesticulate pathetically. The shark eventually got bored and swam away, but Disneymen manufactured a more dramatic finish to the shark...