Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-26 | Page 10 | Two Swin Aces Retain Laurels

Two Swim Aces Retain Laurels DETROIT Aug 26 CP SwIm UP Swim Swimming ming records appeared today to have lave attained a more substantial basis than they had a few years ago as the senior outdoor mens men's national am amateur Athletic union championships continued at the Detroit Boat club here On the program were the yard rard free style event In which Ralph alph Flan Flanagan gan Austin Texas will try to retain his title the meter backstroke in which Adolph Kiefer of Chicago Is a favorite to rep repeat at the yard rd breaststroke with Jim of San Francisco cast as defending champion champlon and the he yard free style relay in which Ohio State university will seek another title Yesterdays Yesterday's competition saw two champions repeat another lose his title by default and anda a fourth fall fail to even reach the finals Repeats Al Ohio State university sity sUy diver retained his Championship champion Champion- championship I ship in the three meter sprIngboard springboard spring- spring board Doard event easily while Ralph Flanagan Austin Texas won the one mile free style title for the fifth straight time without being extended The Detroit Athletic club meter medley relay team gave the meet its only national record feat to io date by covering the distance in 3 minutes 22 seconds to equal the mark set In 1939 by ano another her trio from the same club The other championship decided yesterday was the yard free freestyle freestyle freestyle style in which Kiyoshi Nakama a year old Maul Hawaii high school boy won a photo near fInIsh finIsh finish fin fIn- ish from Takashi Hirose another Maul Maul- star Near Perfect Perfect Scores received perfect near-perfect scores on almost all of his dives as he won the title for the third straight year Earl Clark Clar teammate was second Flanagan was better than 50 yards ahead of of- James of Honolulu In winning the one mile free style His time was far over his his his' national record record of 20 Nakama was timed in 2 minutes and seconds in the more than a second over the national championship record Kiefer who won this event last year vas forced to default because of having been weakened by a recent attack I. I of grippe