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Another Harvard swimmer, junior Robert Kaufmann, finished seventh with a time of 56.2 sec. Frank Gorman '60 failed to reach the eight-man final of the three-meter diving event, although he had been in seventh place at the end of the preliminary round...
DETROIT, Aug. 3--Harvard senior Bruce Hunter last night became the second swimmer to be chosen for the United States Olympic Swimming and Diving Team. In the 100-meter freestyle final, Hunter touched out Jeff. Farrell in 66.0 seconds for the second and last spot...
During the past season Hunter set University records in both the 100 and 50-yard freestyle events, and the American Inter-Collegiate record, 48.6 sec. for 100 yards. Only Farrell and Steve Clark, another swimmer whom Hunter beat in the semi-finals of the Olympic Trials, have ever swum the event faster...
...like I was sick" until senior scouts arrived to save him. But George discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer ford, farther upstream...
...advantage. He has broad shoulders for power, but very thin legs, and he rides high in the water. This means less drag." In his daily training sessions Clark works out with another Haines pupil: Santa Clara's Chris Von Saltza, the U.S.'s finest all-round girl swimmer. A blonde and matured mermaid at 16, Chris can swim longer and harder than Steve, loves to challenge him in a round of four 400s, or eight 200s. "It's embarrassing," Clark admits, "especially at the long distances, when she makes it too close...