Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-22 | Page 17 | U. S. Swim Team Faces Big Task

va O B S. S 4 SWIM TEAM FACES FACE BIG 1 r i i Japan Sends Strong Strang Clan r f Of Paddlers By ALAN ALAX GOULD I Associated Press Sports Editor t i ABOARD S. S S S. MANHATTAN fe EN N ROUTE TO BERLIN July 22 I Americas America's Olympic swimmers who have been working out daily dally In the midget pool while voyaging toward Berlin face tace the keenest challenges from other nations of j arty iny ny Am American teams j This applies to both the mens men's and women's teams whose coaches are f janning an Intensive two weeks weeks' training ral Ing period at Berlin to tune tunc up P their charges for great efforts L Bob Kiphuth coach of the mens men's team told the Associated Press to toJ today today to- to J da day that the tho swimmers have a fifty fifty-fifty chance of regaining tb the mens men's team honors lost to toI toj j I Japan in 1032 while Ra Ray Daughters Daugh Daugh- tern krs of Seattle coach of the women wo 0 wo- wo men immers 8 said We Wo have fo to beat the Dutch to keep thet the tho t title U B Both th the American and Japanese mens men's teams are stronger than they were tour four years ago especially in intha inthe the thi sprints News of a record Japanese Jap- Jap nese anese performance in the mc- mc altered the idea that there was an edge in favor of the Americans who are placing their main mam reliance in In Peter eter Fick of or New York whose b best t time is seconds for the bundred hundred v J y Conceded Edge 4 Otherwise Japan is conceded an advantage in the 1500 meters free free- yle and the United States in the backstroke The remaining events are toss tossups F i This is no yio alibi but the Japanese have benefited by bj at least six weeks in Berlin becoming acclimated ted ed said Kiphuth We are arc unable to f-to to gauge our condition while work- work j In ing out for or 01 a a. week with the swimmers swimmers swimmers swim swim- mers harnessed but a few sore throats have been the only untoward unto unto- Inward ward development Jack Medica has worked especially hard and promIses prom- prom to make a comeback The conditioning of the mermaIds mermaids mermaids mer mer- maids which loomed as ai a a. a major J problem midway in the voyage oage fi- fi f 1 has developed eloped fewer difficulties than were expected Mrs Lenore Kight Wingard ingard of Home Home- Pa Fa and Cincinnati has re recovered recovered reo re- re o covered from a slight hand infection tion Uon and others have ha shaken off seasickness Mr lUM Eleanor Holm Hoim Jarrett has forsaken the tho S 1 Hens Hons of party life for tor the m most st training of any of the thc members of her team The Tho backstroke back- back 4 stroke queen anxious to retain J her er Olympic crown denied that Champagne will be a part of her training diet from here on ou I Olympic officials anticipate elaborate dab dab- cr orate te receptions at Hamburg and B Berlin in the tentative schedule they have havo drawn up Avery Brundage t chairman of the American Olympic committee announced yesterday that regardless of what time Thursday Thurs Thurs- jO day the Manhattan reaches HamI Hamburg Hamburg Ham- Ham I burg th the Olympians wit wilt be unloaded unload unload- ed d Friday morning Owens Works Out Track Yack and d field fieM officials meantime mean mean- time w were rc concerned nc ed with th the condition con con- on- on of their charges and the arrangement arrangement ar ar- ar- ar of t post Olympic tours Jesse Owens had another brisk workout yesterday and continued t to improve However Bill Bingham track committee chairman said he did didot not lut ot believe Harold Smallwood of Ventura Cal Cat who has just recovered recovered recovered ered fr from from rn an attack of appendicitis and Jimmy I my Luvalle of Los Angeles were rugged enough nough to In b both the tlc individual 11 Ite meters ers and the 1600 meter 1600 relay That l leaves Archie Williams of ot Oakland Cal as the only double I I tarter at that distan distance e. e The relay team will wili n not t. t be chosen until just Before the games open