Western High School - Beacon Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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1 . Eoffi S '7eam Although the swim team did well, even winning the West Side Cpen Championship, the spotlight was stolen by three boys, Ron Alsobrooks, Frank Hanson and Harry Ackermann, who won All-American honors. Alsobrooks and Hanson won a first team berth while Ackerman cap- tured honorable mention. These boys also won All-City stripes. This swim season proved to be the most exciting in years, being a nip-and-tuck battle all the way. Cooley Western and Chadsey were favorites but a dark-horse under the guise of Northwestern showed its hoofs to the field A powerful Western squad captured the West Srde Open Championship whrch is quite a feat considering that such dreadnaughts as Chadsey Northwestern and Cooley had very lmpressrve teams During the regular season the Western tankers were looking forward to their meet with Chadsey Chadsey went so far as to scout the Cowboy squad at the South western meet rlowever smart strategy by Coach Gun nerson forled Chadsey scouts when he switched around his usual swimming order Even with this change Western was still able to defeat Southwestern with ease 49 33 The Chadsey meet was not one for weak hearts for lt was a close cont st down to the last event of the day However Western came throuah beautifully to defeat the vaunted explorers The one thing Western lacked was team balance We were weak 1n some events and very strong in others The breast stroke proved to be one of the strong points The rornbmation of Captain Ierry Iehle and Ron Also brooks was a hard one to beat They usually finished f1rst and second Western was also strong in diving Frank Hanson pe formed wonders on the d vmg board Tommy Loeffler who was voted co captarr o the team along with Ierry Iehle added depth to the diving staff Ioe Blola who play ed football startea in the middle of the season at the div 1ng board ana proved competent No matter how good the rest of the meets were durlng tne regular season the one which prov1ded the most thrills and chills was the city finals Western garnered a goodly amount of point by Ron Alsobrooks two flrst Bon tied the city record in the l50 yard mdivldual med ley and came within a tenth of a second of tying the l00 yard breast stroke record Western continued to roll up points with Harry Acker mann taking a second 1n the backstroke Iimmy Diabo swimming to a thrrd in the 100 yard free style and Frank Hanson capturrng a second in diving Western led throughout the meet then cam the final event of the day At that porn the score stood at 40 34 Western s fax or with Northwestern second The fre e style relay proved aisastrous to the wearers of the Red and White Northwestern placed second and got ten points while Western did not place at all Th1s made the score 44 40 and gave Northwestern the City Champion hlp Next year Coach Gunnerson who consistently puts out a winning team ln swirr will have to start from the ground and work up Most of his lettermen are graduat ing Of those who graduated or who have :flready graduated here are the points tney contributed to the team Hon Alsobroois 74 2 3 Frank Hanson 62 5 6 Ierry Iehle 50 l 3 Harry Ackerman 47 l 3 Irm Diabo 24 'X fu H - QP -04 -Z ogg QQ SN , , , I . 1 . 2 1 Q . . I . . . I I . I . 5 Y . ' Q . l I. . I ' '. l . 0 O c , ' . l C - , ' ' ' 'O N ., - ' Of- c E . ,, . H , ,fa 3 wx to . 4 t 4 l is in X -H -t , A ' . 0 X X W J - , - 1 1 ' Ex . U I I 9, Q . 1 I - ' 4' , 7. I . ' , . H Z QQ O, A 4 4 OO sro , - . . A Oo UO E V H I I n U O., Oro I A- ' -s I I l' ' '. on QU . . ' A . j Q 2? A. v 1: .. A l 3 , - .Fug 9 X, . I fl i I I A. ' I -L .

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