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...West, took the Santa Fe Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping 6-ft. 220-pounder, played center on the football team. In his senior year his father died...
...versatile Crimson swimmer also won the backstroke and swam in the winning 400-yard medley relay quartet with Bill Chadsey, Jim Coffman, and Bob Kaufmann. In the individual medley. Pringle won by a body length over Jerome Bentley, the Indians' highly regarded double threat...
Crimson record-holder George Mulligan swam for the first time this season and came up with a victory in his specialty, the 440 yard freestyle. His winning time of 4:54.1 was a slight disappointment even for this stage of the season...
...Crimson opened with an easy win in the medley relay, as Bob Kaufmann, Frank Wood, Bob Price, and Allen Berg churned over the 400 yard course in 3:54, to finish more than a lap ahead of their opponents. Kaufmann, who is still recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, swam only in the relays, passing up the backstroke and the individual medley...
...together, Rockefeller, Wassing and two natives left Agats, boarded the catamaran, pushed off for the village of Atsj, 25 miles down the coast. As Wassing told it later, the catamaran shipped water in a rolling sea; despite bailing, it foundered and the outboard was swamped. The two natives swam to shore to get assistance; the two white men stayed with the boat...