Eliot Wins 'Cliffe Swimming Title

In one of the most decisive triumphs in recent 'Cliffe history, the girls from diminutive but spunky Eliot Hall splashed to victory yesterday in the annual Annex swimming marathon.

As evening fell and the final tabulations of the eight-day event came in, Eliot, with 4,537 laps, led the second-place Commuters and Cooperatives by a strapping 2,000 lengths. Whitman Hall, although scheduled as Eliot's partner made only a trivial contribution to the victory. With each of the 15 Eliot watergirls allowed to swim no more than 100 laps a day, their average distance was three miles of open water.

Understandably, enthusiasm ran high over at normally-dour Eliot Hall last night, and no one could say too much for the competitors. "It was just wonderful. I guess we're pretty good in the water," one of the Eliot swimmers declared huskily after the marathon.