Hawkins Overtakes AAU Swim Favorite

Underdog Dave Hawkins learned a new kick in a few hours last week and used it to defeat the favorite in the butterfly final of the national AAU swim meet at Yale.

Hawkins qualified for the 100-yard butterfly event April 3 in a time more than a second slower than that of Leonide Baarcke of North Carolina. Baarcke used the new fishtail or dolphin kick, and Hawkins, the regular frog kick.

Between the afternoon time trials and the evening final, however, the Crimson sophomore practiced the unfamiliar new kick and decided to use it in the race that night. He did, and overtook Baarcke in the last 25 yards to win in 58.8 seconds, his fastest time to date.

Both Yardling captain Sigo Falk, entered in the butterfly event, and a four-man College relay team failed to qualify, but Hawkins's first in the butterfly and second in the orthodox breaststroke were enough to give the Crimson swimmers sixth place in the meet.