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When he went to London to support himself by scholarly journalism he carried on his Spartan regime, started the day, whatever the weather, by a run and a swim in the Serpentine. In one Christmas-Day swimming race his chest was severely cut by the ice. He bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from...
...Springfield, Mass, last week the Yale swimming team won its 13 2nd consecutive dual meet, against Springfield College, 61 points to 16. Two nights later the team stretched its string to 133, against College of the City of New York. In New York, Yale swimmers were first in every event, second in four. In the 440-yd. swim, Norris Hoyt of Yale set a pool record...
That Yale swimmers have won 16 out of the last 17 Intercollegiate Swimming Association championships, have been invincible in dual meets for the past ten years, is due largely to their coach. In 1914, Robert J. H. Kiphuth went to Yale as an instructor in physical education. Three years later, he was put in charge of the Carnegie Pool, where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed...
...high scorer of the meet was A. R. Bourne of McGill who swam in four events and placed in two of them. In the 200-yard breast stroke swim M. Victor Leventritt '35, holder of the Harvard record for that event, easily won in the comparatively slow time...
...closest race was in the 220-yard free style swim in which Wallace E. Howell '36 splashed up from behind to win by a hand from John J. Colony '37. In the 50-yard free style race Harvard suffered its only defeat when A. R. Bourne of McGill nosed out Bob Haskett '37 in the last ten yards. By doubling its lead in every lap, Harvard easily won the 400-yard relay by over half a length...