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Coach Hal Ulen of the Harvard Varsity swimming team yesterday named the following men as his entries: John Eusden in the 50 and 100-yard free style swim, Captain-elect Bill Drucker in the 150-yard backstroke, Bus Curwen in the 200-yard breastroke, Dave Barnes, George Christman and Captain Tom Shrewsbury in the 440-yard free style, and a medley relay team composed of Drucker, Curwen, and Eusden. Shrewsbury will also compete in the 220-yard free style race...
...most likely to break Johnny Welsmuller's record for the 100-yard free style event, and a performer who could well equal or better the amazing performance of Jack Medica of Washington who stole the show the last time the Indoor Athletic Pool was the scene of the swim events. The Yale 400 yard medley relay quartet will also aim to break its own world's record of 3:26:6, set against Brown this season...
...nine Ivy League and a number of southern and Rocky Mountains squads, will be present at the opening gun on Friday morning, March 27 at 9:30. Throughout the two-day meet, preliminaries and semi-final events will be scheduled in the afternoons, while the finals will be swim on the two evening programs...
...want to swim? Not in your own pool-shortages of waterproof paint, of chlorine to purify the water. And less chlorine means more tattletale grey in the laundry...
Larry Allen, U.S. war correspondent who nearly drowned in the Mediterranean when the British cruiser he was aboard, H.M.S. Galatea, was torpedoed, took his first swimming lessons in Miami. He had sworn to learn to swim 20 feet -"enough to escape the suction" in a sinking. When he met the teacher (see cut), he upped the distance...