Word: swum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alumni vs. Ulen affair the last event on the program was a 200-yard relay, consisting of four men on a team, each swimming 50 yards. The worthy Ulen had been fostering secret hopes of perhaps snatching an American record for the distance, since the event was to be swum only once during the season. Gentlemen such as Messrs. Hutter, Kendall, Barker, and McKay were then Hal's disciples--a potent enough aggregation for any sprint record...
...revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow...
Captain Richard R. Hough, of Princeton, warmed up for his race tomorrow by swimming the fastest 100 yards breastroke ever swum by man. He did the century in 59.9 in an exhibition swim which was not accepted as a world's record because the authorities in New Haven had not been notified the prescribed three days in advance. He cracked Jim Skinner's Exeter and world's record of 1:02.1, and the accepted national mark of 1:02.7 made by Jack Kasley, of Michigan. Hough was paced by a pair of Yale breastrokers...
Captain Johnny Good of Yale will lead the competition in the 100. He has swum the four laps under 53 seconds this season while Curwen, who tied for second in last year's Nationals, hopes to return to form. Powers may also try the century...
Curwen is a potent threat to Good's 2; 14 supremacy in the furlong, while Cutler and Powers are all in the running. Big Jim wanted to enter the quarter, too, but the authorities said no because he has not swum it this year. Chet Sagenkahn will enter the dives and should do well if he concentrates on the high-board. Art Bosworth, Bob White, and George Dana of the Crimson team are staying home because of health and studies...