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...Neville capped off a fine meet in the next event, the 100-yd, free, as he took a fast second behind Charlie Campbell of Princeton. After shaving four-tenths of a second off his own University record in the afternoon preliminaries with a very fast 46.891, he swam an incredible 46.376 in the finals to Campbell's 46.123 as both went under the old Eastern record set by Bob Kastings of Yale last year...
Finally, the 400-yd. free relay of Mitchell, Neville, Mike Cook, and Yntema came within 013 of finishing second in the race and the meet, as it swam an excellent record-shattering 3:08.536 for the third behind N.C. State and Penn. in a disappointing ending to a great team effort...
Harvard took over second place again after the next event, the 100-yd. butterfly. After breaking Tim Neville's Harvard record in the afternoon preliminaries with a 51.101 clocking, Hess Yntema swam a very strong race in the finals to finish second, lowering his own record to a fast 50.89. Bob Meade of Cornell, who had lost to Yntema on judges decisions the two previous times they had met in championship competition, made no doubt about who had won this time as he set a new Eastern record with a 50.180 clocking...
Captain Fred Mitchell, who had just barely reached the finals with the sixth best qualifying time, swam a very strong race to finish fourth. His time was a good 1:44.168. Charlie Campbell of Princeton successfully defended his 200-yd. free crown with a new record time...
...Eastern record in the event in his afternoon trial, shaved a few more fractions of a second off that mark in winning the evening's final in 1:55.006. Yntema and Brumwell were unable to keep pace with the Penn star, but they finished a strong three-four. Yntema swam the best time of his career at 1:57.622 while Brumwell faded just a bit but still swam second best in his career with a 1:57.759 clocking...