The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1935-01-25
SPORTS
SWIMMING.

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took all but two of the first string
events at the meet with Ely in the
Hibbing pool Saturday. The final score
was Hibbing 81 and Ely 81. Those who
saw the match state that the Hibbing
team is the strongest ever to assemble
under one banner and should have
little difficulty in annexing the National
title.
While Ely's first string swimmers
were decisively defeated, the second
string boys romped off with an advan-
tage of 26 points on score of 46 for
Ely and 20 for Hibbing.
George Sutherland beat last years
champion back stroker in the very fast
time of 1:07.6. Sutherland upset the
dope bucket. The Hibbing Daily Trib-
une last Friday listed George as third
rater. Stake and johnson for Hibbing
were predicted to pull out a victory
in their speciality stroke, purely on that
quality known in sports parlance as
quits" and went on to say these boys
have what it takes" George showed
that he possessed "guts" too, and left
both Stake and johnson behind at the
finish.
Klun won the diving as expected but
missed the 4O-yard free style by a hair
due to bad turn, his first defeat this
season.
Before the meet Hibbing had been
given the edge in every event including
the diving, due to the fact that Klun
would perform on strange board and
feel somewhat under pressure owing to
very clever publicity stunt. How
ever, Kreis is not in the class with
Klun on account of the latters much
more difficult dives. Kreis is also over
rated considerably on account OF his
smooth entries into the water due to
his slender build The execution of the
dive is however what counts and in
this respect Klln has it all over Kreis.
Our green" crop showed up well and
great things may be expected from
these youngsters in a year or two.
The most outstanding among the
Freshmen Is Joe Dizzy Grahek who
swan very nice 22O-yard free style
race in which he bettered his own time
made last week by over eleven seconds.
He also performed well on the board,
and while not placing among the first
three, he pressed Edwards of Hibbing,
a veteran diver, hard for third place
Other Freshmen who are doing fine
in their respective events are Hanson
and Pucel in the crawl; Brownel in the
back stroke, and Hall in the breast
stroke. Ralph Majerle Junior, turned
in the fastest time Saturday in the 100
yard breast stroke, but could not cope
with the speed, stamina and experience
of Coder and Marsland of Hibbing and
had to be satisfied with third place.
With Frank Marolt eligible for COM
petition this coming semester our teams
strength in the free style events will he
considerably boosted A full strength
lineup will be hurled at Chisholm here
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. The
Chisholm team was state champion two
years ago, and while not as strong this |
year as they were then, they neverthe-
less can boast of very fine team and
our boys will enter the contest with a |
do or die spirit that should spell VIC
tory. Two meets are billed, one for the |
second team as preliminary after
which the first teams win battle it out. |
Remember Saturday, Jan. Goth, at 900
P. M.
The probable lineup against Chisholm
on Saturday will be as follows:
160-yard Sutherland, Sarki-
patio, Marolt and Kun.
1OO-yard breast stroke-Majerle and
Ahola
40-yard free style-Klun and Marolt.
2OO-yard free Style rahek and Han
son or Pucel
10O-yard back stroke Sutherland and
Gianotti.
1OO-yard free style Marolt and Tuo-
meIa.
Diving-Klun and Grahek.
Medley Relays Sutherland, Majerle
and Tuomela or Hanson.
Second Team.
160-yard Colombo. Brownen,