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V THE DAILY NEBRASKAN. SUNDAY, MARCH 6. 193.1 PACE SEVEN IIUSKEHS CAPTURE eiuunO iu liiu SiK SPLASH SESSION Iowa State Wins Saturday Tilt; Spiccr Piles Up Nebraska Points. (By Rrwrlal I.ard Wire.) NORMAN, Okl., March 5. Be hind the plucky swimming of Fletcher Spicer, Coach Pete Hage lin's crippled University of Nebras ka swimming team Saturday aft ernoon placed second In the Big Six conference aquatic meet here. Iowa State won with 76 points, followed by Nebraska 34, Oklahoma 28, Kansas 23. and Kansas State 11. Haldeman's Big Six record of 2:33.4 for the breast stroke stood up from Friday night and the Iowa State free style relay team of Al len, Harris, Wempe and Haldeman nipped Oklahoma to set a new mark of 3:57.6 for the 400 yard free style relay, a new Big Six record for 25 yard pools. Spicer Wins 220. Spicer won the 220 by half a foot from Wempe, Iowa State, placed fourth in a close hundred, and. -hen came back to take third in the 220 for a total of 11 points. Furr of Nebraska was second in the quarter, Smith third in the breast stroke, Leask fifth in the dive, Davidson third in the back stroke, and the Cornhusker med ley trio of Davidson, Smith and Younger was second to Iowa State. The Cornhuskers placed in every thing save the 50 yard free style. Omaha Freshman Sets New Time for 40-Yard Crawl - In Telegraphic Meet. Setting an oil time Nebraska record in the 40 yard crawl, Vir ginia Bergman, freshman tanks terette, from Omaha, came thru with a time of 24.3 seconds in the last lap of the National Tele graphic meet, played off in the coliseum pool yesterday afternoon. The record surpasses ' that which placed third in last year's nation al meet. ' The excellent form dis played by Miss Bergman, the even ly timed, effective stroking which ?ent her thru the water at record breaking speed marked one of the highlights of th eatfernoon's events. Winner of the 75 yard medley relay, whose time will be sent Into the national competition, was the team composed of Marjorie Lin coln, Martha Jackson, and Virginia Bergman. Time: 58.3 seconds. This record also exceeds that which placed third in last year's national meet Placements Revealed Next Week. The Nebraska meet was played off in two divisions, yesterday's division and the first division, run off last Saturday. Results have been sent to Northwestern univer sity headquarters of the central division. There the scores will be rated against scores submitted from 17 other colleges of nine mid- western states. Placements In the national competition will be re vealed some time next week. The summary: 40 yard crawl: Virginia Berg man, 24.3; Doris Patterson, 27.4; Frances Steele, 29.3. 100 yard crawl: Virginia Berg man, 1 minute, 19.3 seconds; Doris Patterson, 1 minute, 29.1 seconds. 40 yard back: Marjorie Lin coln, 32.9 sec; Marian McGee, 35.1 seconds. 40 yard breast: Jane Cook, 36.2 sec; Martha Jackson, 38.2 sec. 100 yard breast: Martha Jack son, 1 min. 53.8 sec; Jane Cook, 1 min. 54.1 sec. 75 yard medley relay: Mar jorie Lincoln, Martha Jackson, Virginia Bergman, time 58.3 sec. 100 yard tree style relay: Doris Patterson, Francis Steele, Mary Jo Henn, Virginia Bergman, time 1 min. 6.3 sec Men's Handball Tourney Entrant to File at " University and faculty men wishing to enter the city handball tournaments March 14-21 at the central Y. M. C. A. will file their entrance blanks at the association's downtown office before March 7. Blanks may be ob tained at the "Y" or in the daily newspapers. 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