Distance Swim Meet
Lures 200 to Wyoga
Plain Dealer Bureau
AKRON--The national AAU long-distance swimming championships
open today
at noon at nearby Wyoga Lake with the Detroit Patton Pool bidding to
repeat
as team winner in the women's junior event. A field of 200 is
expected.
The junior men's championship will be held tomorrow with the
Detroit
team and the Northwest Aquatic Club of Garden City, Mich., the two
teams
that tied for the title last year, again expected to wage a tense
battle
for the crown.
THE MEN'S JUNIOR event is a four-mile race with George
Saldana of Detroit,
who was second last year, a decided favorite to take the title.
Jim Teunas, Gary Gottschling, Dave Sahagian and Greg Penn
also will
carry the Patton Club colors.
Garden City has a five-man squad of Tom Curran, Alan McDaid,
Ron and
Dave Pohlonski and Greg Golin.
OHIO'S ONLY representatives are Eric Russu of the Cleveland
Swim Club
and Steve McNerney, and Phil and Mark Jenkins of the Akron Swim
Club.
Indianapolis A. C. has four swimmers to round out the
starting field
of 18 swimmers.
The women's junior has 16 swimmers, five from Patton Pool,
five from
Garden City, five from New Kensington, Pa., and two from the
Indianapolis
A. C.
The senior championships will be held July 18 and 19 and the
four-day
meet has attracted 212 entries from 16 cities and five states plus
Ontario,
Canada.
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