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...backstroke, one of the varsity's few weak points, should find both Crimson swimmers John Hammond and Bill Murray behind Cornell star Dave Wolf. The orthodox breaststroke may be one of the closest races of the night as Jim Stanley and Dave Falk for the varsity will find stiff competition in Cornell swimmer Bill Mathias...
...Springfield swimmer is also alleged to have a 2:17 in the fly event, a figure which Ulen hesitated to credit...
During the early evening, Laszlo Magyar, a Hungarian swimmer, eclipsed an M.I.T. pool record of :61 by one-tenth of a second in the 100 yard backstroke. Other swimmers participated in races and demonstrations...
...match between Hammond and Bill Veck, M.I.T. varsity swimmer, provided the evening's most unusual performance. The Harvard man swam the breast stroke, While Veck paced him with freestyle. The engineer led by a small margin for the first fifty yards, but Hammond overtook him and won in the final feet. vard did not swim competitively. Dave Hawkins '56, former Crimson varsity swimmer and a 1952 Australian Olympic team member, now a graduate student, illustrated the evolution of the breast stroke in a series of demonstrations...
...yard free style with a time of :50.3. Ron Mischner was second for the Crimson, and Dick Duane was third for Tech. Hammond's :58.6 in the 100-yard butterfly was two-tenths of a second better than the record set by now Olympic swimmer Dave Hawkns in 1954. Bob Jaffe was second for the Crimson, with Gene Getchell taking third for M.I.T...