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...Pete Peterson's undefeated Yardling swimmers took Exeter Academy into camp Saturday afternoon in the local pool, 34 to 32, in a meet featured by Bus Curwen's 55.9 century victory and Shaw McCutcheon and Bill Patterson's one-two finish in the dive...
...only real disappointment was in the 145 pound weight division where Pete Illman having been ridden but still showing most of the aggressiveness in his match was unable to take his opponent down...
Jimmy Redmon is still out of the lineup, but this week another shift in the weights provides first string men right through the team with the exception of Harry Blaine at 128. Pete Illman has recovered from his injured wrist and will be wrestling at 145 this week, ten pounds lighter than he was before. Meanwhile, Bruce Richardson has gone down to the 136 pound class...
...Coach Pete Peterson's Freshmen won a genuine thriller. The performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent...
...most colorful match of the afternoon from the spectator point of view was the bout between Pete Illman and Cadet Welles in the 155 pound class. In a tight battle that lasted very nearly the entire nine minutes, Pete Illman finally succumbed to Welles' power and was pinned in 8:07. Illman, who has never been pinned before in his entire Varsity wrestling career (he is a Senior), was handicapped by an injured wrist and by the fact he was wreatling the best Army...