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Sometimes taking a lot of first places doesn't do you any good. Such was the case on Tuesday night at the Greater Boston swim meet, for although Harvard took 9 of 12 races. MIT took the team title, much to the annoyance of the Crimson...
Both Gambril and Kenney complained about the handling which Harvard received in terms of substitutions. The Crimson was unable to swim the 400 yd. freestyle relay because of a ruling by Batterman which prevented Harvard from substituting an alternate for a swimmer who couldn't make the meet. "The MIT coach thought more about winning the meet than of letting Harvard swimmers participate," Kenney said
Dick Baughman, however, was an exception. Swimming the 1000 yd. freestyle, in which he holds the Harvard pool and school record of 9:49.2, Baughman not only won the race but went on to swim the 1650 yd. free in a new school record time of 16:34. The time eclipsed Steve Krause's old mark by over half a minute and was also thirteen seconds under the present record time for that distance at the Easterns...
...Time to Stop." Chou found the currents he wanted to swim with early in his life. Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution against the crumbling Manchu dynasty was just getting under way when Chou (pronounced Joe) was born into a family of impecunious gentry...
Other than in the freestyle events, where the Crimson still have good depth, Princeton's overall depth will probably prove to be too much for Harvard. Charles Cambell, a gold medal winner in the backstroke at the Pan American Games this summer, will probably swim an excellent time in his specialty, and the perennially strong Princeton divers, who swept both Dartmouth and Penn, look as tough as ever and should have no trouble continuing their success...