Ulenmen Make Short Work of Bruin Mermen, Winning 42-33

A well-balanced Crimson swimming squad encountered less difficulty than expected with four individual Bruin stars and gave the Barry-coached mermen a convincing dousing in the Indoor Athletic Building Wednesday night, 42 to 33. The Yardlings set the pace in sinking the Bruin Cubs by the same score in the preliminary.

When Art Bosworth, Al Waldron, and Lonnie Stowell slipped through the 300 yard medley relay in 3:03, a yard ahead of Bud Wilcox, Matt Soltysiak, and Jack Perritt, the Bruins had one foot in Davy Jones locker.

No Brown Surprises

Thereafter, they never exceeded minimum expectations, save in the dive, where Bill Irvinc and Hank Gossler garnered second and third places behind George Dana of the Crimson; and Max Karus third gave the Ulenmen their 38th and winning point in the breaststroke.

Hal Ulen reached into his bag of tricks and pulled forth Eric Cutler as a 100 breaststroke. The Crimson captain sped through the century in 54 flat to beat favorite Bob Schaper of Brown by a touch. Cutler had already annexed his regular 220 in 3:18, just ahead of Frannie Powers, and would have been ready to take on all comers in the 440 had the score demanded.

But Al Waldron's fine second in the breaststroke in addition to Kraus' third had clinched the meet so the stage was let for a renewal of the Powers-Gibbons classic struggle in the quarter. The race has almost an exact counterpart of their meeting last year as the two Juniors battled side by side for 400 yards. Again it was Gibbons, swimming his only event of the night, who had a couple of feet of extra drive enabling him to outreach Powers at the finish.

Gibbons came in with something for the Bruins to cheer about, but it was all the more apparent that Hal Ulen had completely outmaneuvered Coach Leo Barry of the visitors. In Gibbons, Barry has a man capable of trimming Soltysiak in the butterfly event. In Schaper he had a man who could have won the medley, swimming the free-style leg in place of Porritt. Better Barry strategy would have used these men up before the relay.

Schaper, Soltysiak, and any two other men Barry has would not have had a ghost of a chance against a final Crimson relay team of Bosworth, Curwen, Cutler, and Stewell--which would have been used if needed. Ulen could have rolled up 51 points all told but naturally preferred to give some of his younger sprint men a chance to acquire valuable meet experience.

Bosworth Stars

Reliable backstroker Art Bosworth ripped off his 100 medley leg in the neighborhood of 1:01 and nosed out Wilcox of the Bruins in 1:41.7 in the regular 150-yard dorsal race. Dick Harris came through for a third.

George Dana and Chet Sagenkahn were not at their best in the low board dive, but the former managed to carry off top honors with 89.53 points. Jim Curwen and Dave Stearns pushed Bob Schaper right to the finish in the 50 in 24.1, and these four points just about put the visitors out of their misery.

Bus Curwen and Bill Drucker, old standbys, provided high spots in the Yardling victory with victories in the 220, 440, and backstroke. Shaw McCutchcon piled up a 94.9 total in the dive, good enough to top any of the Varsity spring board artists that night, and won the event in a walk.

Once more it was a question of the Crimson simply having more individual stars than their opponents from Providence. Carter, winner of the 50 and the 100, was the main threat.