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S W I M M I N G

R ichard E. C. C o n l o n ..................................... Captain
D onald R. D u c k w o r t h ..................................... Manager

Late fall practice in swimming found but two letter men able
to report, Captain Conlon and Wilson. Sanderson, the only other
letter man in school, had been injured while playing football.
But with great hope in Branch, holder of the National Inter­
scholastic 50-yard record, and promising material from the junior
team, Mr. Whitford began preparations for the season.
Moses Brown began its schedule at the Pawtucket High
School pool very auspiciously by winning a stiff meet against good
competition, 39-36. Branch was the individual star of the meet,
breaking two pool records, in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard
backstroke, and bringing a relay team from behind to win. Biddle, who took a first in the 200,
and Captain Conlon did very well and gave hope for a very successful season.
Our second meet was with Brookline at the Brown University pool. The Brookline natators
were a very finished group and took us into camp, 45-30. It is said that too great an indul­
gence in jelly beans slowed up one or two of our better swimmers! In this meet the Moses
Brown record was broken in the 50 by Branch in defeating a very close field. In spite of the
lop-sided score, the meet was no walk-away, and the team looked forward to the next meet with
high expectations.
Our team next traveled to St. George’s, to lose to a good team, 37-28. Although Branch
was not with us in this meet, the places were so closely contested that victory fell to St. George’s
only with the final relay. Sanderson took part and did very well in the meet, placing second in
the 40 and swimming on the winning medley relay team. Captain Conlon swam very well, and
Cooper exhibited the strength that made him an outstanding swimmer in the last meets of the
season.
The Brown Interscholastics, representing a dozen eastern schools, including Westminster,
Hackensack, Central and Brookline, were next on the schedule. In this meet the team gained a
well-deserved sixth place, all the more appreciated because it surpassed the eighth place of the
St. George’s school. Biddle, Wilson, Cooper, and Brown proved their worth with a hard-earned
third in the 200-yard freestyle relay.
This year’s Rhode Island Interscholastics were held at the Olneyville Boys’ Club. It was
with a great deal of satisfaction that the team was able to return with third place. Captain
Conlon, Biddle, Cooper, and Wilson did especially well, with Wilson taking second place in
the State's diving.
The last meet was held at Brown University against the Brown Freshmen. The Frosh were
in all probability the best aggregation the team ran up against all season, and it was with no
sense of shame that the Moses Brown swimmers came away on the short end of a 51-24 score.
Cooper deserves commendation on his first place in the 100-yard backstroke. Biddle, Metcalf,
and Wilson also acquitted themselves nobly against greater seasoning.
The season was a stiff one, and it is with no lack of pride that the 1934 swimming team
leaves its record in the Moses Brown annals.
In Biddle, who will be graduated in June, we shall lose a fine swimmer, but it is with con­
fidence in the future that the school looks forward to next year’s season, with such seasoned men
as Wilson, Conlon, Cooper, Brown, Metcalf, Bartlett, and Syren forming a very promising
nucleus.
At the close of the season Wilson was elected to lead next year’s team.
F. T. C.
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