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...yard free style swim--Won by R. T. Benedict '38 (H); second, B. L. Stowell...
...yard free style swim--Won by C. G. Hutter '38 (H); second, D. Barker...
...closet races in the second meet should come when breastsrokers Dick Hough of the Tigers and Greg Jameson of the Crimson dive into the pool for their 200-yard swim. The exploits of Jameson, who one week age set a pool record at Hanover of 2:32.6 are well known, while Hough did 2:33.2 in the Princeton-Fordham meet. Other top Tigers are Captain Howie Canoune in the 220, divers Cranston and Kelley, and the relay team of Harper, Stickel, Harwood and Bayliss...
Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record...
...Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each Japanese hit was like "hundreds of iron rails . . . dropped from a great height upon the deck." As she heeled over, her captain, his bald head bleeding, shooed his men overboard, roared at them to swim away from the ship. He was still on the bridge when she turned turtle...