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...flat. Picking up momentum, he flailed through the 100-yd. freestyle in 46.8 sec.-an achievement that ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds "in the right places" for added strength. An amphibian prodigy who started swimming in earnest at the age of four, Schoolboy Clark is confident that his 100-yd. record will be broken, but he hopes...
Chet Jastremski, 20, son of a Toledo steel-mill worker, and a premedical student at Indiana University, became the first breaststroke swimmer ever to navi gate 100 yds. in less than a minute. His time: 59.6 sec., .5 sec. less than the remarkable 1:00.1 he clocked during a trial heat. A stocky, quiet A-student, Jastremski meets Coach James Counsil-man six mornings a week at 7 a.m., practices for an .hour, attends classes until 4 p.m., swims again until 6. "A very dedicated boy," says Counsilman...
This means that five of the swimmers who went to Seattle--Schellestede, Zentgraf, Engelberg, Mulligan, and Coffmann--will not compete in New Haven. In commenting on this decrease in the squad, one swimmer observed: "It's late, and we're behind in our work. We'd rather catch up with it before it catches up with...
Australian swimmer Murray Rose broke his own American and collegiate record for the metric mile as the 1941 NCAA swimming championships opened in Seattle yesterday. Rose, swimming for the University of California, was clocked at 17:31.8, over nine seconds under the mark he set two years...
PRINCETON, N.J., March 9--Harvard's Bob Kaufmann left no doubt that he is the East's best 200-yard individual medley swimmer here tonight, as he won his second straight EISL title and set a meet record...