Evening star., 1952-07-06
Ohio. State Swimmers
Lead Olympic Trials,
Beating Three Marks
BY the Assoeiaied Press

ANGV 4S4tAAS OdAy O.--AIl u1lc
other series of glittering perform
ances, Americas male swimmers
bettered three Olympic records in
as many events today, capped by
young Yoshi Oyakawa's sparkling
victory in the finals Of the 100
meter backstroke.
The backstroke was the only
final run-of in the second day Of
the Olympic tryouts in the Flush
ing Meadows pool and it followed
sterling performances by Ford
Konno In the 1.500-meter free
style and Jerry Holan in the 200
meter breaststroke. All three are
from Ohio State and Oyakawa
and Konno hail from Hawaii.
Oyakawa. the NCAA 200-yard
champion, came on with a tre-
meudous rush in the last lap of
the 50-meter pool to win by six
feet over Ensign Jack Taylor Of
Akron. former Ohio Slater. Two
feet behind Taylor came another
Navy Olympics man. Ensign Allen
Stack, the 1948 Olympic back
stroke champion. BY capturing
third, the 24-year-old former Yale
star clinched a berth ON the
Olympic team.
The winner was clocked In / :O5.7.
two-tenths of a second faster than
Adolph Kiefer's 1885 Olympic re-
cord and only three-tenths Of q
second slower than the American
long course standard set by Kiefer
IL years ago. Taylor was timed in
:07.l and Stack in 1:O7.7. Stack
won his gold medal four years ago
with 1904 effort.
Already Qualified in 400.
konno, who holds a flock of
National titles from 200 yards to
! 500 meters, was relaxed today as
he reeled off the metric mile in
lS:11.5. compared to the Olympic
record Of 1924 set by Japan's
kusuo Kitamura at Los Angeles
in 1882. The shy, 19-year-old
Islander gained a place on the
team yesterday by finishing third
in the 400-meter freestyle.
Holan, a 21-year-old junior from
Westchester, H., made the 200
meter breaststroke in 1891 to
pace the seven qualifiers in that
event. His time was two-tenths
of a second better than Joe Ver-
deur's Olympic mark of 1898 set
at London in 1948.
Burwell (Bumpy) Jones of
Michigan. who was nosed out for
third in the 400 by Konno yes
ter0ay. set the pace for the seven
qualifiers in the 200-meter free
style with a 2:10.9 job. He was
followed by two Yale men with
identical times, Don Shelf and
Frank Chamberlain, 2:1l.5; and
Frank Dooley, Ohio State, 2:i2.2;
Wally Wolf, Navy Olympics.
2:12.6; Gather Rosser, University
OF Miami. 2:12.8; and Jim Nc
kevitt, Ann Arbor. Mich, and
Chicago. 2:13.1.
Rosser Drops From 1900.
Six of the seven men in this
final tomorrow will earn a trip
to Helsinki as members of the
800-meter relay team.
Rosser, who had qualified for
the 1,500-meter final, withdrew
from that event after he had
placed in the first seven of the
200. John Phair of the Coco
Cola Club Of Cincinnati, who had
finished eighth in the 1900 with
21:13.1 was given Rosser's place
IN the final.
Finals in the 1,500-meter, 200
meter breaststroke and 200-meter
Ireestyie will be held tomorrow
and fast times are expected by
Olympic Coach Matt Mann who
;alls this field "the finest bunch
ever put together"
Olympic records have been tied
Or bettered in every event. Yes
terday Yale's Wayne Moore beat
The Olympic mark for the 400
meter freestyle and Michigan
States Clark Scholes equalled the
l00-meter freestyle standard.
Other Qualifiers Listed.
In the backstroke final, Bill
Sonner OF the Navy Olympics
fourth in 1:08.7 followed
BY Bernard Kahn, Michigan.
:09.1: Jim Thomas of the Chapel
Hill IN. c. Swim Club. 1;09.3.
and Dick Thoman, New Haven
Swim Club. 1:l0.6.
The six qualif1ers behind Konno
in the 1.500 were Jimmy McLane.
the 1948 Olympic 1900 champion
from Yale. 1921: Moore, 1928;
Bill Woolsey. a Hawaiian schoolboy
conner, 1873; Bert McLachlan.
State, 19:46.7; Joe Rob-
inson, l7-year-old schoolboy from
the Pittsburgh YMCA, 2O:02.5,
and Gather Rosser, University of
20:30.5.
Qualifying for the breaststroke
final behind Holan we're Bowen
Stassforth, University of Iowa,
2:40.2; Ken Nitzkowski, Navy
Olympics, 2:41.1; Bob Dunlop,
Navy Olympics. 2:41.7; Bob Braw-
ner. Princeton, 2:42.6: Stanton
Smith, jr.. New Haven Swim Club,