2 Records Set in PSL Swim Trials
By HARVEY BARCUS
The missile age may be having an effect on Detroit high
school swimmers.
They're going faster than ever in the Public School League
championships
at Patton Pool. "I guess these flights by the astronauts are pushing
the
boys," observed Carl Holmes, of Pershing, after watching the
contestants
set two records and barely miss marks in two other time trials
yesterday.
A record was set and broken twice in the 400-yard freestyle, a new
event
on the championship program.
Henry Storm, of Cooley, swam the first heat in 5:01.1, then
saw it broken
by Monty Blashill, of Denby, in 4:23.5, and lowered again by
15-year-old
Peter Adams, of Pershing, in 4:18.6. Cooley's Bill Jennison, the
defending
champion was clocked in :57.5 seconds for the 100-yard butterfly, the
17-year-old
junior bettering the 59-second performance made by Fred MacMillan, of
Eastern,
in 1958.
In near misses, Dick Golden, of Mumford, made the 50-yard
freestyle
in :23.5, a tenth of a second from the record Harold Ryan, of
Southeastern,
established in 1952, while Dennis Manrique, of Western, was caught in
1:08.6
for the 100-yard breastroke. The record which Barry Shapiro, of
Mumford,
set in 1958 is 1:07.9 Additional elimination were to be held today and
the top six in each race enter the finals at 7 p.m. next Thursday at
Patton.
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