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i fr273 BOYS LEARN TO SWIM ! (v° AT “Y” FREE SCHOOL LAST ! *mMONTH; CLOSED FOR YEAR !«tilt;USThe Y. M. C. A.’s free swimming school closed Friday afternoon with the stunt day program and this fea- !I V Cture of the work Is now' over for the olyear. The school was a success, 125 boys learning to swim and dive. TheIattendance at the school has kept upaii aimtt di. tfwell during the month and upward of tfc fifty boys attended every session and : °‘ frequently there were more. The members of the Y. M. C. A. advanced swim- i g, ming class acted as teachers, and the : ni prize offered by Mr. Micklewright to;T the boy teaching the most boys to tj swim was won by Sumner Spencer, * ir who taught eighteen boys. Next came William Pike with sixteen and third ^Carroll Doolittle. Practically all of' tithe teachers had more than ten boys to p their credit.A total of 273 boys took lessons In swimming according to statistics. Many of them dropped out after they had learned to swim but before they g had taken the test prescribed, so these ! h are not counted in the tally of boys taught, one thousand five hundren and six swimming lessons were given to boys. It took two of the boys taught sixteen lessons to get onto the knack sufficiently to pass the test, and on the averge it took each of the boystaught 3.5 lessons to acquire the art of swimming.sirlt;utliiehsVarrwThe Graduates.qo■Among the list of graduates of the swimming school are: Hillard Moore,Roderick Iow\ Earl Farley, Clifford Moore, Jack Duncan, Charles Simon, Joe Katzoff. Charles Edwards, James Kennedy, Donald Drake, John Dickson, Robert Blask, Leonard Fitzwater, Addison Paul. Lorraine Wallace, Stephen Davis. Fred Hickman. Chester Barth, Edward Berry. Ted Hartman, Benjamin Brodie, Ellery Whitmer, James Turnbull. Cecil Scott, Frank Jordan,Chester Brousard, Raymond McCreedy,Ernest Lenk. Stanley Melsha, Stanley Mohrbacher. Donald Thompson, Ed-j] w ard Soboda, Karl Easton. Pressly, j Thompson, Leon Shomler, Carl Lowe, Ewing Sinclair, Walter TumhuU, Leonard Broulik, Willis Jeffries, Donald Curren, Paul Hotz, Earl Kandell. Raymond Gosnell, James Mathews, Donald Bleakley, Charles Boegel, Lee Currier, George Allard, John Forsythe, Harold Peck. Curtis Buchan, William Hamilton, Leland Allen. Walter Thompson, Robert Loftus, Edward Fitzwater, Marvin Gates. Herbert Fox. Frank Jir-inec, Edwrard Cochrane. Marshall Robbins, Eugene Jambor, Jack Thompson, Wilbur Eldred, George McDonald. Edgar Meline, Ray Rhodes, John Meyer. Carl Holmgren. Floyd Oxley. Donald ! Shuey, Byron Collogan, Harold Prsil, Carl Misbach. Vernon Jambor, Kenneth Bailey, Gerald Kohl Hamilton Morse, Robert Moody, Walter McClure, Stephen Bellard, Teddy Haller, Teddy Hardendorf, Tudor Wilder, Ernest Wolfe, Quentin Wilson. Leo Polanski, Rudolph Carriger, Paul Harold. War- ! ren Hartman. Eddie Beeson, Edward Dyson, Leland Prescott. Edward Hartman, Roy Feiereiser. Gerald Sterett, Claire Rutan, Wesley Eldred, Louis Mottinger, Harold Murrell, Jesse Lind, Nile Lamb, Arthur Skelley, Henry Fitzsimmons. Robert Mathews, WilliamShierer, Burrell A Ter ill. David Spor-man, Morton Butterfield, Horace Butterfield, Stanley Barta, Richard De-Lenoy, Clark. Bennett and ClarenceFeiereisen.
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 07, 1915
Page 10
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