TOM SZUBA
Wins 3 of 4 Duels
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25 Records
Shattered
at Patton
BY GEORGE E. VAN
Twenty-five state swimming records were broken in the 57
events held
in the two-day meet which concluded Saturday as Patton Swim Club kept
its
team title in the second annual holiday meet held in its pool.
Fourteen of the marks came Saturday during the 36 final
races. Coach
Harry Hauck's Patton squad had 244 points. Turners Swim Club, a 'waif
team'
without its own pool, finished second with 162 points.
Northwest Aquatic Club was third with 158 and Etobicoke
Aquatic Club,
of Islington, Ont., took fourth with 136 among the 32 teams entered
from
the Midwest and Canada.
Sue Spilski, 15, of Denby High, won over Patton teammate
Linda Foster,
15, of Lincoln Park, in a blanket finish for the state 500- yard
freestyle
championship for girls 16 and under. Sue's time of 6:25.3 set a state
mark,
a tenth faster than Linda's.
Jim McMillan, a Michigan State freshman won the 100-yard
freestyle in
50.9, slapping into the finish ahead of Daryle Kifer, also an MSU
frosh,
and Ray Kaye, of Northwest A.C. Pete Adams, of Patton, who beat all
three
in the 200 Friday night was fourth in 51.8.
Eight-year-old Tom Szuba, of Patton won three out of four
25-yard races
in freestyle, butterfly and backstroke and set records in each but
finished
second to Perry Crossland, of Toledo Club, in the breaststroke. Tom's
time
beat the old breaststroke record but Perry did it sooner. Tom, then
swam
with his brother John Szuba, Tom Koch and John Allred, to win the
200-yard
relay.
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