Swimmers Beat Springfield; Hawkins Sets Two Records

Sophomore Dave Hawkins broke two Crimson records as the varsity swimming team sank Springfield, 50 to 34, in the I.A.B. pool Saturday night to give Hal Ulen a promising opening for his 25th coaching season here.

While the starring role went to Hawkins, the victory was a team effort. In three of the events which Springfield won, the Crimson placed men second and third.

Hawkins swam the 220-yard free style in 2:09.6 upset the visitors' Bill Yorzyk, National AAU and collegiate champion who holds the record in this event, and crack the old Crimson mark of 2:10.3 not by S. G. Hutter, Jr. '38 at Cambridge in March, 1938.

Then the Australian came back to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:22, bettering by 2.8 seconds the varsity record Ken Emerson '53 not in Philadelphia last February.

All-American Don Mulvey upheld his rule of the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:18 and sophomore Jim Jorgenson did the 100-yard free style in 53 seconds flat to give the Crimson another pair of individual first places.

In addition, Mulvey, Ralph Zani, and Bill Travis opened the meet for the varsity by combining to take the 300-yard medley relay in 3:01.4. Then, for the last number on the program, Alan Rapperport, John Mallard, Marv Sandler, and Jorgenson teamed in the 400-yard free style relay for a time of 3:37.1 and a Crimson win.

Springfield Wins Four

Springfield's Yorzyk, after seeing one of his specialties stolen by Hawkins, came back in the 440 free style with a 4:49.2 race. His teammate, Jack Mayers, who holds the National Intercollegiate record for the 120, took the 150-yard individual medley in 1:39.8. Crimson captain Charlie Egan came in second.

Joe Farrier, the visitors' third ace, won the one-meter low board diving event with 84.08 points to 82.22 for the Crimson's Pete Smails.

In the 50-yard free style, Ed Birdsall of Springfield beat the Crimson's Rapperport and Johnson with a time of 24.5 seconds. But all through the meet the varsity's ability to place two men among the scoring first four in the events the Crimson did not win prevented the visitors from picking up a point load.

This was the first and last meet for Ulen's new squad in 1953. The Crimson's next foe will be Brown, here on Saturday, January 9.

During the spring the swimmers will have seven meets, of which three will be at home in the I.A.B., before they participate in the Easterns at Princeton and the NCAA meets at Syracuse, both in March.