SWIMMING

The swimming team has had an excellent season, especially in view of the succession of injuries, ineligibilities, and abstentions that have hobbled Coach Michael's cast at various times. Physical incapacities have been particularly devastating, with several of the later dual meets lost by close margins because of the illness or injury of one or two key men. In spite of a varsity won-and-lost tally that was not quite up to last year's record performance, there is nevertheless a happy gleam in Coach Michael's eye. This anticipation derives from the freshman team, which appears at this juncture to be one of the strongest aggregations ever to dive into Spalding Pool. So next year, barring various contingencies with which Coach Michael is only too familiar, things should be even better.

Some of the names you will probably be reading in this column with increasing frequency during the next few years are Captain Jock Mclntyre, Doug Simmons, Chuck Ryan, and Blaine Boyden, who have broken several relay records during the course of the season. Boyden and Mclntyre come from Hawaii, where they learned their swimming under the most glamorous natural surroundings over which the American flag flies. In the final varsity dual meet of the season, this quartet swam along with the varsity and its opponent, Sampson College, and succeeded in setting a new record in the 400-yard relay. In the same meet, a freshman medley trio of Dick Bennett, Frank Bruch, and Bob Jackson lowered the freshman record for this event which had stood for several years.

Another stellar performer for the freshmen is the above breaststroker Frank Bruch of Cleveland, who was the leading interscholastic performer in this event last year. Together with Sophomore Chuck Solberg, who has been swimming the breaststroke in consistently winning fashion in company with Captain Jay Urstadt, the Green should be well fortified in this department for the next couple of years. The latter, incidentally, turned in the most noteworthy performance of the Sampson meet by swimming the first 100 yards of the 200-yard breaststroke in record time, erasing a Dartmouth mark that went all the way back to Ed White '38. But we were talking about the freshmen. With this group in varsity trunks for the next three years, things are definitely looking up.