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Beasting only one outstanding swimmer. Captain Paul Williams, a mediocre Pennsylvania team will strive to upset Harvard in the Crimson's first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League meet, tonight...
...took a second to Graham Cummin last year in the 150 backstroke, will compete against Craig Moore and Art Bosworth tonight, unless Coach Ulen decides to use Lonnie Stowell again, to give him meet experience. Of the whole Y. M. C. A. team. Runge is the only really outstanding swimmer...
There was the 150 backstroke, too, which Bosworth entered with the odds in favor of Brown's Wilcox. But last year's Freshman captain proved himself a fine competitor as he outswam Wilcox to take first place. In the 200 breastroke, Jack Waldron, rated No. 2 Harvard swimmer in that event, dug his way past Max Kraus to finish third, but the pluckiest race of the evening was swum by Frannie Powers against George Gibbons of Brown...
Powers led Gibbons by a yard for 14 laps, but then the diminutive Bruin pulled his way even, passing Powers and leading him for the next two lengths. The Crimson swimmer made a gallant bid as he went into the last turn, and came into the homestretch wide open cutting down his opponent's lead every second, but Gibbons stood him off until the finish, winning only by a touch...
...Bruins' two speed kings, Matt Soltysiak and Bob schaper as convincing reasons why Harvard may not extend its consecutive victories to 29. Soltysiak defeated Dario Berizzi '38 last year in the 200 breastroke in 2.31, a time which Max Kraus, present breastroker, cannot hope to equal. The Providence swimmer is also good for under 2:20 in the 220, and is sure to place in any other freestyle event...