Varsity Swimmers Lose Ground On Eastern Tourney's Last Day

Despite two Harvard records, the varsity swimming team lost ground to Yale and North Carolina State on the final day of the Easterns at Cornell Saturday. Yale ended up with three individual champions and twenty finalists, Harvard had two champions and eight finalists, and State had two champions and seven finalists.

Chouteau Dyer lowered the Harvard record in the 100 by a tenth of a second, but his 50.6 effort was only good for fourth behind Rex Aubrey of Yale (49.5), Dave McIntyre of State (50.2), and Sandy Gideonse of Yale (50.4). Dyer had done a 49.7 in the Yale meet, but only winning times in a dual meet can be recognized as records.

The other Crimson record came in the 200 breaststroke where Sigo Falk swam a 2:30.6, but barely missed qualifying for the finals. Dick Fadgen of State won the final in 2:19.9 to set an American record in the event.

For the most part, however, Yale and State dominated the last half of the competition. This was partly because Harvard had no men competing in the 100 yard backstroke, the 200 yard individual medley, or the 300 year medley relay.

In the three meter dive, however, Greg Stone turned in his best performance of the year to take a third behind Frank Knight of Army and Ron Keenhold of Lehigh. Yale's Doug Starkweather failed to qualify for the finals.

But in the 440 Captain Jim Jorgensen lost his first race of the year and finished third behind George Breen of Courtland State and Frank Nauss of North Carolina State.