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...Philadelphia meet, varsity captain Chouteau Dyer settled the question of the Harvard record in the 100-yard freestyle by swimming a 49.8. Previously, Dyer had swum 49.9 in an exhibition meet with the Hungarian Olympic team at MIT; this time had been questioned as a record since the meet was of doubtful official status. Dyer's time was also a Penn pool record...
...told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual fireballs." Charlie can even cook. His specialty: chicken pilaff...
Since there were four qualifying times faster than 60 seconds, the meet officials had to pick up two of the three above swimmers to complete the final round. Going by the times, Clinton should have been picked as the fifth finalist and the other two should have swum off for the sixth position. But this hardly seemed fair to Kruthers, who had beaten Clinton. So the NCAA decided to let all seven be finalists. The four fastest qualifiers would swim in one heat, and Clinton, Kruthers, and Pemberton would swim in another...
Dyer's time in the 100 was good enough to have won any national intercollegiate meet ever held, let alone being the fastest ever swum by a Crimson representative...
Water so rough that the regular Wilson Line Boston-to-Provincetown steamer wasn't sailing didn't deter the man. For Grover wasn't going to have a boat follow along with him. "No one has ever swum a distance like that without a boat," he informed a life guard...