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

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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...

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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 last swimming meet of the local league wats staged between L. D. S. and Granite. The swimmers representing the former institution easily won by a score of Iiftyefour to twenty. The Farmers placed first in only two events. Plume out-swam Kimball to Win the twoehundred-and- twenty-yard event and Van Dam took the one-hurtdredeyard breaststroke sw1m. T This Victory gave the church institution its tsixth straight Victory and placed it as a strong contender for the state title. On Saturday, March first, the state swimming Eneet took place. Here L. D. S. displayed the same evenIy-balanced strengt T that it had shown in the local league swims. The Saints won more eventq than any other entry, thus earning the state title. In the oneehundred-and-sixty yard event the Saint relay team took flrst place. Holding and Tadner placed second and third in the diving event. Sorenson of the winners was second in the fortyeyard and third in the one-hundred-yard freestyle events. In the one-hundred-yard backstroke swim, Ray Welch of the about-to-be-chamv pions came in second only to Whipprecht of Westm Kimball placed nrst in the two-hundred-and-twenty-yard freestyle event and Engar, second. Nelson and Nielson placed second and third in the one-hundred-yard breaststroke contest. Alkire was nosed into seconti place by Plume of Granite in the one-hundred-yard freestyle event. The Saint medley team T JENSEN ENGAR KIMBALL Breaststroke Freestyle Freestyle .43 1 74 gm-