Dyer Bows in Easterns

You have to be moving with the trigger in the 50-yard freestyle, or better still with the triggerman's brain. Bob Keiter of Amherst was moving like that in the Easterns last night and 22.2 seconds later he had touched out captain Chouteau Dyer and set a meet record.

Sometimes, as Franky Machine would say, some cats just hang that way; but for the local citizens it was purely old Sorrowville.

The ubiquitous Terry Jecko climaxed a busy day in the IAB by setting two Meet records and a pool mark; in the 200-yard butterfly finals with a 2:11.8, the Yale swimmer cut one and four tenths seconds off Dick Fadgen's 1956 mark, but his time last night showed the strain of a long day of swimming. Jecko holds the applied for N.C.A.A. record in this event with a 2:08.6.

In the 200-yard individual medley it was another Jecko victory and another Meet record, this time also a pool mark. Jecko swam a 2:08.7; the previous meet record was Charles Krepp's 2:09.7 in 1956, and the pool record was the Crimson's Dave Hawkins' 2:13.0, also set in 1956.

The Yale 400-yard freestyle relay team rounded out the record setting with a Meet mark of 3:25.2; Joe Robinson, Russell Hibbard, Dan Cornwell, and Roger Anderson shaved nine-tenths of a second off the mark set last year by Harvard's Jim Jorgensen, Jon Lind, Dyer, and Peter Macky.

Since Yale's ace freestylers Rex Aubrey and captain Dave Armstrong (who has also reported ill) could not compete yesterday without cutting so many classes as to become ineligible for the N.C.A.A. championships later this month, the Elis' record-setting relay combination was not in the Easterns.

But the modified version also proved too strong for the Crimson, despite the services of Dyer. The Yale swimmers had built a lead of nearly two body lengths by the time Dyer took off on the anchor leg. In spite of a sprint that brought him within a quarter of a length of Anderson, Dyer faded slightly on the last lap and the Elis were home safe.

FINALS SUMMARY:

200-YARD BUTTERFLY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. Clinton (Yale), 3. Chapman (Army), 4. Jones (Amherst), 5. Wortman (Cortland), 6. Hammond (Harvard)--2:11.8 (Meet Record). 50-YARD FREESTYLE: 1. Keiter (Amherst), 2. Dyer (Harvard), 3. Bronston (Yale), 4. Gideonse (Amherst), 5. Myers (Colgate), 6. Hibbard (Yale)--22.2 (Meet Record). 200-YARD BACKSTROKE: 1. Plourbe (Bowdoin), 2. Dolbey (Yale), 3. Earley (Yale), 4. Kirk (Army), 5. Harris (Cornell), 6. Wolf (Cornell)--2:11.1. 220-YARD FREESTYLE: 1. Anderson (Yale), 2. Cornwell (Yale), 3. Goodman (Army), 4. Ellison (Yale), 5. Bahrenburg (Dartmouth), 6. Bronston (Yale)--2:07.0. 100-YARD BREASTSTROKE: 1. Buzzard (Syracuse), 2. Johnston (West Chester Teachers), 3. Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. McGill (Syracuse), 3. Pinney (Connecticut), 4. Clinton (Yale), 5. Sherman (Yale), 6. Jones (Amherst)--2:08.7 (Meet and Pool Record). 400-YARD FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Yale (Robinson, Hibbard, Cornwell, Anderson), 2. Harvard (Macky, Clifton, Lind, Dyer), 3. Colgate, 4. Amherst, 5. Navy, 6. Dartmouth--3:25.2 (Meet Record).