Latter Day Saints Business College - S Book Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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The Swimming Season HIS year L. D. 8. had one of the best and most expe'ienced swimming teams in all its history. Nearly all of the main swimmers were veterans of the nineteen- twentyenine squad. Coach Charles Welch had a rare group of tankmen and he knew how to use their strength and swimming ability in such a way as to win a state cham- pionship. The flrst meet cf the year was staged with West High Schc 01. The Saints easily defeated the Panthers by a one-sided score of forty-seven to twenty. Two state high school records were broken, one by the L. D. S. relay team and the other by Whipprecht, famous backstroke artist of the Panther squad. The next contest was with East High School. Again the Saints were triumphant, winn1ng by a'score of fifty-eight to seventeen. L. D. 8. completely out- classed the Hilltoppers in every event except diving. The Saint relay team composed of Alkire, Kimball, Wise, and Sorenson established a new COACH WELCH Back Row: Kesler, Nelson, R. XVelch, Kimball, Fetzer, Jensen, Wise, Alkire, Nielsen. Keddington, J. Thomas, Tanner, Sorenson, Welch, Coach, Front Row: Billings, Engar, Calham, Price, Calham, Green, P. Thomas, Emery, Holmquist, a Little, T. Welch, Holding. Mg 172 Rem-

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The B. Y. U. Invitational track meet is one which always attracts the cinder men from all over Utah and parts of Idaho. L. D. S. sent its high school team and six or seven J. C. trackmen as representatives to this gala affair. Here the Saints met very stiff come petition; but, as usual, they held their own. Bennion again displayed his ability to high jump by taking third place in this event. He was beaten only by Rushforth of Davis High and Vincent of Provo High. Fielding copped third in the Junior College discus throw. Following the Cougar Invitational Meet were the Divisional Meet on May 3, and the State finals on May 10. Both contests were held at the U. Stadium. At the former meet the Saints seemed to be eyed by a jinx and did not show up to the best degree. Nevertheless Grant Bennion and Paul Christenson qualified for the State Meet in the high jump and the two-twenty- CHRISTENSON yard dash respectively. The former made an Dams excellent heave in the discus in the Region Two meet, but because his hand barely touched the ground while he was whirling around to send the disc through the air, his distance was not counted. In the state meet these two men presented themselves in an excellent manner. 5. BENNION G. BENNION BROWN Dashes Weights and Jumps Dashes ..,gt 1 71 team

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record for the one-hundredesixty-yard relay. L. D. 8. met their most formidable rivals for the divisional championship in the Gran- ite squad. The surprising event of this meet was the Kimball-Plume contest in which Kimball of L. D. S. outdistanced the veteran Plume by one stroke. The meet ended iifty- two to twenty-three for the Gold and Blue tanksters. In the second swimming meet with West, L. D. S. was successful in gaining its fourth Victory by a fifty-five to twenty score. In this contest the oneehundred-yard back- stroke was the only event won by the Panthe ers. Whipprecht succeeded in nosing out R. Welch, classy L. D. S. backstroke paddler, for first place. The West-siders gave the Saint tankmen little competition in the diving. The Gold and Blue tanksters won their CAPTAIN SOREVSOV fifth straight Victory by defeating East High Freestylel A a second time. The closest event of the meet was the diving. Guilotte of the losers succeeded in pushing Holding and Tanner of L. D. S. down to second and third places respectively. ALKIRE WISE HOLDING Freestyle Freestyle Diving -953 173 Ea...