SWIMMING RECORDS
LOWERED BY YOUNG AMERICAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 14. Alan Ford, aged 19, lowered the world record for 100 yards freestyle swimming, covering the distance in 50 3-sseconds. Also, swimming in the first leg of 400 yards free style relay race, Ford helped Yale to set a world record of 3 min,|tes 26 1-5 seconds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 4
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