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Swimming Although the Trinity swimming team lost its P.nal meet to Wesleyan, it ended its eason with an enviable record. This group, representing a sport which was only recognized as a major one last year, gained five victories against two defeats. These two losses were at the hands of Wesleyan and Amherst in contests held in foreign pools. Trowbridge Memorial pool, however, was the scene of victories over Union, Worcester Tech, Connecticut State, and Bowdoin. The season started off in January with a defeat by Amherst. All of the events except the distance races were fairly even. The 200-yard relay was by far the most exciting. The lead changed back and forth several times, Amherst finally winning. Bolstered by the Freshmen stars Motten, Hall, and Dickerson, the team won the second meet with a close victory of 39 to 38 over Union. Trinity seemed far behind in the scoring column; but the crack 200-yard relay team consisting of Adams, Hall, Mowbray, and Mortimer equaled the college record to beat the Union four and win the meet by one single point. Co-captain Mortimer led the attack against Worcester Tech in a spectacular meet which witnessed the breaking of three college and two pool records. Motten and Mowbray did excellent work. Helped by their teammates with points here and there, they managed to give Trinity a 37 to 34 victory. The outcome of the Connecticut State meet was never in doubt, as Trinity started to pile up points from the first event. The squad kept up its habits of breaking records. Adams, Coit, and Mortimer started off the meet by underswimming the previous record in the medley relay by two seconds. Motten and Coit also lowered the times in the 220-yard dash and the 200-yard breast stroke race. To finish the meet the record holding relay team repeated with a victory. The squad neA."t traveled to New London to win a hotly contested meet from the Coast Guard aggregation by a score of 47 to 37. Trinity went down confident of an easy victory, but the Coast Guard proved to be strong. But by accurate placing of men by coach Clark the team achieved a hard fought victory. In the final home meet of the season, the Trinity group still chalking up new college records, overwhelmed Bowdoin, 50 to 27. This wa. Trinity's fifth straight win. It seemed to have been a habit of Trinity by this time to break records. Motten, Mowbray, Adams, Coit, and Mortimer again did the usual by beating or tieing the college marks. The final meet with Wesleyan proved to be a heart-breaker. The Middletown swimmers were forced to extend themselves to the limit in order to squeeze out a 43 to 34 win over Trinity, setting up two new intercollegiate and two new college records. The team formed the habit of winning swimming meets right from the start. This, together with excellent team spirit, made the first year of organized swimming completely successful. THE SUMMARY Amherst Union . . . Worcester Institute of Technology Connecticut Agricultural College Coast Guard Academy Bowdoin Wesleyan
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