Harvard Swimmers Top Brown, 73-39; Geronemus Grabs 15 Points in Contest

Paced by a triple-win performance by Roy Geronemus, the Harvard swimming team easily won its fourth straight meet of the season Saturday as the Crimson downed an outclassed Brown team in Providence, 72-39.

In recent years Harvard-Brown contests have not been remotely close and as a result most Crimson swimmers enter off-events. Saturday's meet was no exception as head coach Don Gambril shuffled his lineup drastically and kept his stars relatively under wraps. The results were interesting, although few of the changes produced surprising times.

The performance of Geronemus, however, was outstanding, regardless of the limited competition which the Bruins provided throughout the meet. The sophomore took first in a trio of extremely grueling races, the 1000-yd. free, the 500-yd. free, and the 200-yd. butterfly. His time of 10:56.8 established a new Brown pool record, a facility record which might stand, as a new pool is near completion.

The medley relay of Wolfe, Brumwell, Yntema and Mitchell swam a respectable time of 3:43.4 to break another pool mark with Wolfe's opening 100-yd. back leg of 57.0 breaking yet another Brown pool standard. The freshman completed a fine afternoon and evening as he traveled from Providence to a later JV meet with Exeter that night and turned in a fine 3:57.5 performance in the 400-yd free.

Among the other new faces appearing in unfamiliar events was breastroke IM specialist Dave Brumwell who moved to the 200-yd. free and won one of the few close races of the day in a respectable 1:51.6. Freshman Hess Yntema, who already holds two Harvard school and pool records, took first in the 200-yd. breastroke.

Junior John Zaketnik took his initial firsts of the season in diving, winning both events. Because of the lack of a 3-meter board, two 1-meter competitions, in required and optional portions, were held.

Freshman diver Dave English, competing in the JV-Exeter meet, had another outstanding weekend. On one dive he received phenomenal 7 1/2 9, 10 scores from the judges and his continued improvement night be a key bonus in later meets with Princeton, Penn, and Yale.