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Pierson College took first and second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 57.8, with winthrop's Abba Kastan close behind. His time, 57.9, was the fastest he has ever swum the distance. All four swimmers finished within four seconds of each other...
Springfield's Jack Mayers dumped the Crimson's Dave Hawkins with a 1:09.2 120-yard individual medley. This cracked the 1:09.7. New England intercollegiate mark Mayers had set in his team's last meet on Jan. 28. Hawkins holds the varsity record for the event--1:32.1--swum over a course 30 yards longer...
...Naval Academy brings with it six strong swimmers. Hawaiian Chuck Gray, its free-styling sprinter, covers the 100 in 52.5 and the 220 in 2:12.5. Jack Edwards and Chouteau Dyer haven't swum the former event as fast yet this season for the Crimson, while Jim Jorgensen and Captain Ted Whatley, who both went the longer distance in only slightly better time against Cornell; will again be pushed to peak performance...
Eddie Sowell '34 swam the back stroke in 1:39.4 the year he graduated. The time was barely off the record for that period, though Sowell had never swum in a race before he came to Cambridge...
...Morris '49, a cripple since the age of ten because of a broken hip, had swum only for therapeutic reasons before he came to college. He became National AAU long distance champion, winning a four-mile race swum on an open lake, and took first in the 1500-meter Intercollegiate race. He made the 1948 U.S. Olympic swimming team...