Caption: Ray Kaye, 71, swim champion: There was a time when no one in the world could swim the breaststroke faster than Ray Kaye. Mr. Kaye, 71, who died Sunday at St. John Hospital in Detroit after a brief illness, who dazzled the nation in the mid-1930s. A graduate of Class Technical High School in Detroit, Mr Kaye set a world record for the 500-meter breaststroke in a 1935 meet in Japan. He finished seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In 1937, competing from Detroit, he became the national 200-meter breaststroke champion. He also helped set a world record in the 300-meter medley relay.
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