Crimson Tankmen Scuttle Big Green Aquatic Forces

At the beginning of the current swimming seasons four teams were designated as major threats to Harvard's tank forces. Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale. The Big Green was successfully eliminated from this group Saturday at Hanover by Hal Ulen's boys, 48 1/2 to 26 1/2, while the Yardlings brought the afternoon to a happy ending with a 39-36 edging of the Indian first year men.

A capacity crowd of nearly 1,000 had almost shouted itself hoarse before the second event began, the reason being the harrowing, seesaw, 300-yard medley relay tie between Harvard's Bosworth, Waldron, and Stowell and Dartmouth's O'Mara, Potter, and Wilhelmy. The time was 3:04.2, a new Dartmouth record.

Bosworth dug out a three yard lead in the backstroke 100, but Waldron ended up his breastroke century just far enough behind Potter to enable Indian free-styler Wilhelmy to get into the water before Lonnie Stowell started. Thereafter, the Crimson anchorman trailed for three laps, coming up with the tying surge only in the last 15 yards.

32 Points in 4 Events

Every Dartmouth hope for victory was crushed when the Ulenmen took every first and second place in the next four events, finally assuring a Harvard victory with Bosworth's win in the 150-yard dorsal race in 1:40.7, his best time. The overwhelming display of power was featured by Captain Rick Cutler's 2:17.8 first in the furlong, Davey (Club) Stearns' triumph in the 50, George Dana's upset victory in the dive with 103.53 points, and Jim Curwen's a 55.6 100 free style win.

Frannie Powers garnered seconds in both the 220 and 100, Curwen followed Stearns in the 50, and Chet Sagenkahn was only two points behind Dana, leaving Indian Captain Paul Dyer in third place with 98.63 points. Cutler came back later with the intention of snatching the Dartmouth pool record in the 440, held by Yale's Hoyt, and succeeded with the commendable clocking of 4:59.4, much to the satisfaction of Coach UlcnMax Kraus and Roger Willcox finished second and third behind Dartmouth's Potter in the breastroke, and then a reserve Crimson 400-yard relay team dropped the final event to the Green quartet by a decisive margin. Potter's time was 1:39.9, while the relay was caught in 3:43.9.

1943 Team Triumphs

Coach Pete Peterson's Freshmen won a genuine thriller. The performance of Bus Curwen was outstanding, for not only did he win the 220 and 440, but anchored the 440-yard relay team to victory almost immediately after finishing his 5:38.5 quarter-mile. It was an iron-man stunt reminiscent of Charlie Hutter's 100-220-440 feat against Yale in 1937. Curwen was under orders to loaf as much as possible in the first two events and in the final contest his teammates labored to hand him at least a two second margin over his opponent.

Bill Drucker's 1:46.2 triumph in the backstroke and Mac McCutcheon's 82.3 victory in the drive were the best performances for the '43 team. Drucker's time was only six-tenths of a second slower than Graham Cummin's '38 Freshman record.

From the Press Table: The Big Green Varsity loss was a blow to Karl Michael, swimming mentor at Hanover, since the meet was Dartmouth's first under his tutelage. It is a reported that the Spaulding Pool locker-rooms were liberally sprinkled with signs reading, "Beat Harvard!" . . . . President Ernest Martin Hopkins was in attendance . . . Crimson divers told lurid tales about the low-hanging chandeliers above the board.