Swimmers Smash Army; Mitchell, Baughman Excel

The Harvard swimming team, taking firsts in ten out of thirteen events and setting school records in three, easily outclassed visiting Army. 77-36, on Saturday in the IAB. It was the first meet of the season for both squads.

Freestylers Fred Mitchell and Dick Baughman, both swimming in their first varsity meet, turned in outstanding performances. Baughman took the 1000 yd. freestyle in a very fast 10:00.8. breaking Steve Krause's school and pool record by six seconds. Mitchell shaved a second off his own marks in both the 200 and 500 yd. freestyle, taking the first in 1:44.7, and the latter in 4:47.1.

Revealing remarkable depth in the freestyle events, and surprising strength in the specialty strokes, the mermen took firsts in all the freestyle races and in both the individual medley and 200 yd. backstroke. Freshman Dave Brumwell, who won the last two, fell just one second short of setting a new school record swimming a 2:02.0 I.M.

New Coach Don Gambril, whose lifetime dual meet record is an impressive 67 wins and six losses, began his career at Harvard with a convincing victory. "I am pleased with how the guys did in competition." he said. "We had a lot of inexperienced swimmers, and I'm glad that they lived up to their potential," he added.

He admitted that he was not surprised by the times of Mitchell and Baughman because he had "expected them to do well." Gambril was, however, pleasantly surprised with some of the other performances. particularly Brumwell's double victory, and the strength in the specialty strokes. "We could have swept the 200 yd. breaststroke if we had wanted to," he noted. "but we eased up, and Phil Jonckeer almost won the race anyway."

Judging from the times. Harvard appears to be in excellent shape to move near the top of the Ivy and Eastern Leagues, and a second place finish to Pennsylvania in both seems possible.