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WORIjD RECORD Ft>R 100 SARDS Reed. noon. NEW YORK, Februars.<B. Alan Ford (aged 19) lowered the world record for 100 yards free style swimming, covering tne distance in 50 3-ss. ■ :I_ He also swam the first leg of the 400 yards free style relay, Ford helped Yale to set a world r*eoffl-« 3.26 1-5.
This makes the second time within a weeS ■Oai Johnnie Weissmuller's figures of 51s. pnt W_» 5 Ami Arbor, on April 5, 1927, nave been betteseo.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 38, 15 February 1943, Page 4
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