The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-16
WATER DOG" CARNIVAL
SWIMMERS TO CONTEST FOR GOLD
MEDALS THIS AFTERNOON.
Each Event I'm the Broad Ripple
Tournament Well FiIled-The
LOng-Distance Course.


novelty of the affair, it is expected that the
extensive general interest added will make
the event well attended both in the number
of entries and the crowd of spectators on
the bank. The affair is to be under the man.
agement of the Aquatic Club, which was
organized some time ago, at meeting at
the Grand Hotel, by a number of local en-
thusiasts. Members of the German turnver-
ems, as well as the young athletes of the Y.
M. G. A, have joined in the project. There
is no line, as the sporting editor would say,
on the local swimmers. and predictions
to the winners would be idle speculation.
However, whenever another tournament is
held there will be quite a little handicap
ping, as result of the events to-day.
The members Of the Aquatic Club have
sought to divest the affair of all semblance
of professionalism, and have carried this to
the extent of providing those contestants
who have no bathing suits with the neces-
sary togs, free Of cost. There will be no en-
try fee in any of the classes and the public
Will be welcomed without charge, to the
park. The high bank facing the river at the
park is cleared of the shrubbery and this
viii afford a good view of the races. The
course will vary for each event. For the
forty-yard dash for boys under eighteen,
the lads will swim along the shore from
houseboat anchored off from the landing.
In the fifty-yard and return event the swim
mers will start from an angle with the
landing and proceed up stream. The last
event is the Northumberland SWIM This is
a little less than a third of a mile, but all
the while the swimmers will be in plain
view. The course for the swimming on the
back will be at an angle across the river.
For distance diving there will be two class
es, one for boys and one for men. The div
ers will spring from a boathouse anchored
In the river, while in the most graceful div
ing event the men will leap from an eeva-
ton of about ten feet. Distance will not
count in this event, but such points as posi-
ton of the body in springing, position of the
body in the air and position in striking the
water will score. It is not improbable that
one or the young ladies among the specta-
tors will be chosen as judge in this event.
No one will be allowed in the contest with
out a proper costume, and no one taking
part in the contest will be allowed in the
water for longer period than fifteen min
utes before the races begin, and while the
races are on no one but those in the match
will be allowed in the water. Each swimmer
Will have pinned to the nape of his costume
a colored ribbon, and a bulletin board on
the bluff will give the name of each swim
mer and his colors.
The question of insuring safety is one to
Which the directors of the club have given
consideration. In each race men will follow
in boats with life preservers and ropes, and
the word of the referee will be law in
dering men, who appear exhausted, out of
the water at once. All the water in front
of Broad Ripple Park Is deep and at no
place is there sufficient depth for walking on
the bottom of the stream.
In order to avoid any Surprise or eX-
pert coming in and taking all the medals,
it has been decided to disqualify the winner
of a medal from taking another medal, al
of the events as he sees fit, till he wins a
medal. This decision was reached in all
fairness to the amateur swimmers, because
it has been impossible to arrange any handi-
caps while the abilities of the swimmers in
indianapolis are generally an unknown
quantity. A little incident in this line may
be related. Last Sunday afternoon Tom
Hedian and Lewis Hasselman were swim
ming at the Ripple despite the cold day. H.
ID; Hammond, whom they both knew, but
whose capacity as swimmer they had
never gagged, Joined them. Hasselman pro-
posed a little jaunt of half mile up to the
island and the trio started out. Hedian and
Hasselman, both being good swimmers,
thought their companion might drop out at
the end of a hundred yards or so, as a
strong wind was blowing from the north
and they were going up stream against the
choppy river. AT the end of the 200 yards.
Hedian and Hasselman were very tired of
buffeting the strong opposition, but they
found that Hammond was holding things
easy and lunging away from them readily.
He would swim ahead and rest while they
came up. Much to their discontinue they
had to return, while Hammond was still as
fresh as duck out for its May-day swim.
quarters are at the Grand Hotel, is a
heavy weight who is entered in the longdis
lance as well as the diving contest AL
though weighing over 200 pounds he is quite
graceful In the water and has good endur
ance. Police Superintendent Quigley makes
a pretty figure in the water and has an easy
overland stroke that carries him at a good
speed. His color will probably be green.
Tom Hedian, his private secretary, can out
strip his superior in the matter of endur-
ance. There is considerable difference be-
tween long-distance swim and a sprint,
and 1T does not follow that a man good in
one class can do proportionately well in the
other. Members of the Ridiculous Club who
have a houseboat anchored across the river
from the park. are also taking lively inter-
est in to-dayS tournament and they will
be found in the water swimming for the
medals. DR.. j. G.. Nehrbas, physical direc-
tor Of the Y. M. G. A., will have some of
his bright young men in the list, and some
of those under eighteen particularly, will no
doubt make good showing.
Entries will be received at the park up to
o'clock this afternoon. Where more than
ten are entered in one event resort will be
made to trial heats, as the Amateur Ath-
letic Union rules require that each swimmer
have a ten-foot berth in the water. The
names of a number of we'll known men APP
pear on the entry list at Broad Ripple Park.
Those that had entered on the down town
lists up to yesterday at noon included the
Forty-yard dash, boys under eighteen
Franklin, P. Jordon, Charles Jenkins r.
Scott, James Dalton, Hugh Ford, H. Clark,
James S. Goodloe
Fifty yards and return-Bert Arbuckle,
James Moriarry, G. M; Douthett. Patrick
Travis, II; G, Ross, Al H. Brown, A F.
Scott.
Sixty yards on back-Walter Spahr, H. c.
Ross, AL III. Brown, A. f. Richter, Charles
Helbing, Bert Arbuckle, James Moriarity,
G. NJ Douthitt, Will Scott, Patrick Travis,
Paul Franklin and p. Jordon.
Long distance diving, boys under eighteen
George Meyers, p. Jordon, Guy Newland,
Paul Franklin, H. Clark, Will Scott James
Dalton.
Long-distance diving, open to all-W. E.
Berner, r. M. Barry, A. +. Richter, James
+. Quigley, Charles Helbing and James S.
Graceful high diving-James F. Quigley,
Al II. Brown Charles Helbing, Paul Frank
lin, c. M. Douthitt, o. Smith. P. Jordon,
win Scott, George Meyers; Charles Jenkins,
James Dalton, Hugh Ford. Hez Clark and
James S. Goodloe.
Five hundred yards William Hoffmark,
Bert Arbuckle. o. Smith, viii Scott, p.
Iordon, H. G. Ross, A. F. Richter, Guy
Newland, Lewis Hasselman, Tom Hedian.
II. p. Hammond, Charles Helbing and w.
NJ. Rockford.
The tournament officials are: Starter o.
M. Alien; referee, A. w. SANDY Thompson;
timekeepers, Thomas Taggart, William
Schmidt and Hal w. Reed; judges, Armin G.
Koehne and Charles Mcguire; clerk of
course. DR.. ]. G. Nehrbas, physical director
at the Y. NJ. C.. A.