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Charlie Hutter, in his first race in varsity competition, shattered the Harvard record of 2:20,8, which was held by Benton Wood, '33, in the 220-yard free style as he was clocked in 2:18.8. Hutter also swam the anchor leg on the 200-yard relay team which lowered the old record from 1:37.4 to 1:36. The team consisted of Donald N. Mckay, '38, John S. Bainbridge,'38, John J. Colony, '37, and Charles Hutter...
...Malitz still has the floor: "Frenchmen, Belgians, Polaks, and Jew-Niggers ran on German tracks, swam in German pools.... Money was thrown away by promoters, but nobody could say that the international relationships between Germany and its enemies were bettered. Only a few treasonable persons and anti-German pacifists claim such things when delivering speeches in Geneva, Paris, and Prague...
...Trainer Kennedy heard a cry, saw a small boy who had fallen from a rowboat threshing in the water about 100 ft. offshore. Watched and tampered every day of his seven years, Lucason had never swum before. But when Trainer Kennedy cried, "Go get him." the champion plunged in, swam out to the boy, gripped his clothes in a long narrow jaw, towed him safely to shore...
...water. Assistant Director James Havens, in charge of the location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...
...named Mary Hoerger won the springboard diving championship. Powerful Lenore Right of Homestead, Pa., fastest woman swimmer in the U. S.. broke two world records (mile and 880-yd. freestyle). Georgia Coleman, Olympic springboard diving champion in 1932, was on the sidelines, judging, as was the girl who swam across the English Channel in 1926, Gertrude Ederle. To take the place...