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...Jacobs (no kin to Joe), gathered in a cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
That is not surprising. There were six pro-Harvard persons in Tigertown excluding the squad members. Three Crimson men, one Crimson man's date, and Johnny Macionis, whose Yale team lost to Princeton last year, comprised the Harvard cheering section. There was also a sorrowful alumnus who used to swim for Hal Ulen. These people saw the meet and had one more important observation to make...
Columbia's pool is notoriously slow, Brown's is so small that only two men can swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...
...this meet. A1 Van de Weghe will undoubtedly take the backstroke handly and Hough will win the breastroke fast as easily. Princeton's medley team is a cinch to add five points to the Tiger score, even without Van de Weghe. As a result, the Nassau backstroker will probably swim the 220 against Cutler. Powers, on Curwen, with Ned Parks as his running mats. This event promises to be one of the tightest of the year for all of the contestants are carable of better than...
Stein is slated to swim the 50 as well teamed with Julian Armstrong, Indian Sophomore who at present holds the League's season's record of 24.2 in the 50. They will face Jim Curwen and either Ned Goldwasser or Lonnie Stowell in the two-lap sprint. Armstrong ought to give Big Jim the best race he's had so far this year...