The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-13
SWIM TEAMS
ORGANIZED
Boys and Girls Squads Are
Practicing in Preparation
For Competition.

| Organization of the boys and girls
swimming teams, under the direction o
Max Herseth and Miss Madalynn'
Grevich, has been completed. Exten
sive workouts will start this week fo
the boys, while the girls will not ge
into full swing until following the waite
carnival scheduled for Tuesday, Nov.
This years water carnival, for which
plans are now being laid, will have both
boys and girls swimming classes taking
part. In the past only the girls have
sponsored the event.
Coach Herseth will have six lettermer
around which to build his team. They
are: Joe Atkins and Paul Hendrickson
back stroke artists; Douglas Nankervis
Jr., breast stroke, and Victor Mako
vich and William Carlson, crawl. Atkins
is also adept at the crawl stroke.
Wayne Bolitho and Sheldon Brown
breast and crawl swimmers, respectively
who saw competition last year, are
being groomed for regular berths on the
team. Ed Klun, crawl swimmer, is ex-
pected to join the squad following the
termination of football
Boys showing considerable ability at
this time who Coach Herseth described
as good prospects" include Marvin
Buskala, diver, a sophomore, and Albin
Markun, another Second-year man, who
is both diver and a swimmer Neither
has taken part in swimming before
James Saari and william Hartman,
freshmen, have shown considerable
promise as crawl swimmers.
Whoever receives the diving assign
ment will have big job to fill-that
left vacant by the graduation of Joe
Grahek, three times state diving cham
pion. Other stars who will have to be
replaced are Joe zaic, diver, and Robert
Hall, substitute breast stroke man.
A blow to Coach Herseth's hopes of
building winning team for coming
competition came when Eugene Nc
Carly, Junior student, who is a star free
style swimmer, reported he would be
unable to join the squad because of
sinus trouble. Now he has the job of
finding a swimmer of equal caliber to
replace McCarty in the free style event
and in the relays.
Our team is pretty much of I'M
known quality at this time," Coach
Herseth states.
And Coach Grevich of the girls team
echoes the same observation.
Building team around a group of
freshmen and sophomore candidates is
her assignment. Her group has been
organized but somewhat neglected" she
states, until following the water carni-
val. She will be assisted by Faith
Purdy and Ruth Martinetti, stars from
last years squad, who are now in Junior
College, as managers.
Following tryouts last week, Coach
Grevich lined up her squad as follows:
Agnes Alar, Shirley Ellefsen, Angela
Poljanec, Lois Purdy and Patricia West
breast stroke swimmers; Mary BONNER,
Emily Debeltz, Margaret Ferderber
Marion Hall, Waynetta Hill, Marcia
Martin, June Forsman and Helen
Slogan, free style; Ruth Erickson Ruth
Markovich, Dolores Butala and Mildred
Somers, back stroke; Mabel Lampi,
Peggy Lambert and Joan Thompson,
divers.
Miss Martinetti, state diving champi-
on, was lost through graduation, as were
Miss Purdy, Clara Herseth and Kathryn
Burck, breast stroke swimmers, and
Berniece Reel free stv1e artist
First competition for the boys will be