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Lamar played Freshman basketball, swam the 50, 100, and 220 free-style in what he says were pretty slow times, played four years of first-string football as tackle and back, and was undefeated in four years of college boxing bouts...
With Bob Snyder and A1 Waldron leading the way, the Deacons swam their way to he House championship yesterday afternoon by virtue of a 33 to 28 win over Eliot...
...enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap to kill its crew. But in a sudden burst of homesickness for Spain he swam to the ship to identify himself. A few hours on board was enough. That night he slid over the side and struck out happily for shore...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...students were driving over the bridge when they noticed a hat and tie lying on the railing. Running back to investigate they observed White in the water below, and while Dubiel ran for the nearest police box, Giles dove into the water and swam with the unconscious victim to the shore, where he was revived by Giles and the police, who soon arrived...