Bill Kendall, the Australian boy who was well on his way toward making swimming history at Harvard until he decided to leave college in the spring of 1938, is now in his native Australia waiting to join a contingent of airmen bound for the Western front.

Kendall left Cambridge for good at the end of his second year and went to work for the Coca Cola Company. As a Sophomore, he led Coach Hal Ulen's Crimson mormen high among the ranks of the nation's great tank squads by personally annexing National Intercollegiate titles in the 220 and 440 yard events.

Joins Air Force

He worked in this country only about one year after leaving school before he went to England. There he was employed in a steel company and later joined the Royal Air Force. Last summer he came out of swimming retirement long enough to capture a pair of seconds in British National Championships in the 220 and 440, his favorite events.

With Kendall swimming for Harvard last winter, the Brown and Princeton losses would have been turned into victories and the Yale meet would have been very close.

The boy from down under went back home this fall, too late to go to the war with the first Australian contingent of airmen, but certain to be in the next one sent to the front.