Swimmers Win Tenth

The Crimson swimming team recorded its tenth consecutive victory of the season Saturday by defeating Columbia in New York, 68-18. The varsity now finds itself in a familiar position: unbeaten, with only next weekend's Yale meet to go, but with only a very slim chance of preserving this perfect record against the always-powerful Elis.

So complete was the varsity's mastery over Columbia that it swept the top two places in the first eight events on the program. The Lions eventually managed to salvage only a second in the 200-yard breaststroke and a first in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Captain Chouteau Dyer and sophomore Dick Seaton paced the Crimson, with two victories apiece. Dyer won both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races, while Seaton took the longer freestyle events, 220 and 440 yards. Roger Clifton took second in the 50-yard event, Jon Lind in the 100, Tom Cochrane in the 220, and Peter Macky in the 440.

Greg Stone provided a mild surprise in the dive by edging teammate Frank Gorman. Gorman has generally been the more effective of the two in the past in this event. The varsity will be counting heavily on its divers in the Yale meet on Saturday.

Bill Murray won the 200-yard backstroke for the Crimson, with teammate John Trainer second. John Hammond and Bob Jaffe scored another one-two in the 200-yard butterfly.

Jim Stanley gained an easy win in the 200-yard breaststroke. It was here that the varsity yielded its only second place to the Lions, when David Falk was disqualified for an illegal turn.

A Crimson team of Trainer, Stanley, Sigo Falk, and Ron Mischner opened the evening with a victory in the 400-yard medley relay. But their colleagues in the evening's final event, the freestyle relay, did not fare so well, losing out to the Lions in the last few yards.

Due, apparently, to a slow pool, none of the times in the meet was particularly noteworthy. Captain Dyer's clocking of 51.4 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle, for example, was a full two seconds over the Harvard record he set in this event last Wednesday.

Meanwhile, in New Haven on Saturday, Yale displayed some of the latent power which it has kept at least partially under wraps all season, in overwhelming Princeton, 66 to 20. One week ago the Crimson defeated the same opponent by the slightly smaller margin of 66 to 24. Highlight of the Eli victory was the performance of the 400-yard freestyle relay team. A quartet made up of Rex Aubrey, Dave Armstrong, Roger Anderson, and Tim Jaecko raced to a world's record time of 3 minutes 16.1 seconds in this event. In the process, Armstrong, Anderson, and Jaecko were all unofficially clocked in lap-times that bettered the recognized 100-yard record.