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Show MANY SWIMMERS ENTER INTERMOUNTAIN MEET Races Promise to Be Close at Deseret Gym Next Friday Tho Deseret gymnasium swimmers are preparing for tho big Intcfmountain Amateur Athletic Union swimming tournament tour-nament next Friday night in tho Deseret Des-eret gymnasium pool. From present indications there will be more than fifty entrants. Eugene Glenn, title holder of the 100 and 4-10-ynrd swimming championship, is showing good form xn practice, shad Instructor Charley Welsh expects Glenn to make a brilliant showing. Ho will be entered in the 100 and 220-yard races. Hugh Grayt who won the 100-yard titlo in 1912. is again a contestant for the 100 yards, nud is said to have an excellent chance to win. Jud3' Burton, who has Bhown himsolf to be the fastest fast-est man in the state on all distances up to sixty yards, will be in the 100-yard 100-yard swim. Munn Cannon is also entered. en-tered. Ray Taylor, champion diver of the gymnasium, is in good trim for the diving events and expects to take first place again. About twelve will take part in the diving events. The straight dives will be from the springboard, and the following will be off the high-dive stage: Back jack-knife, back dive, hand stand and the swallow dive. Many aro entered in the plunging contests. Tho sixtv-yard race for boys under 16 years of ago is attractinp much attention at-tention from the younger swimmers in tho city. The Deseret gymnasium and the Sanitarium have many young swimmers swim-mers who are very fast, and it is expected ex-pected that this event will bo .hotly contested. Tfio entries for tho big tourney will close Monday afternoon. AH entries should be sent to Charley Welsh at tho Deseret gymnasium. |