New-York tribune., 1905-02-12
NEW PLUNGE RECORD.
Cooke Makes Mark of 68 Feet-YaIe
Beaten at Water Polo.

George P. Cooke of Yale made a new American
record in the plunge for distance at the swimming
races in the tank at the New-York Athletic Club
last night The new mark was 6S feet supplantins
the old record of 66 feet inches, made on January
IA by E. H. Adams of the New-York Athletic
Club 1t pretty effort, and generously
applauded. In spite of his record performance,
Cooke had to be content with second place, as
George Wiltshire, of Yale. by the aid of handicap
of 10 feet earned first prize with actual plunge
of so feet Z. H. Adams the former record holder,
third. with a plunge of 60 feet inches. George
P. Cookies record plunge his first of three
tries He hit the water clean. and at an almost
perfect angle for greatest distance He had previ-
ously waived his handicap of feet inches, and
started from scratch with Adams But for this, ne
would have the prize. well as the honor of
the contest
The three galleries surrounding the tank were
crowded with some 600 members and their friends
to the water meet which included a lO-yard
handicap. a 50-yard novice race. the plunge for
distance and a water polo match between the crack
of the New-York Athletic Club and Yale, the
intercollegiate title holder. The sport inter
esting from end to end. T. E. Ketching. jr. beat
]. w. Lawrence by inches only in the final heat
Of the 1OO-yard handicap; A c. Bull the so
Athletic Club won a rather easy victory over the
Yale six in the water polo match by a score Of
Twelve men started In the 1OO-yard handicap and
1t run off in three heats. l.. b. Goodwin on
scratch did not start. that ]. w. Spencer. the
indoor champion, was really on scratch. with n
the final however being third in the slowest heat
of the race. Those who qualified for the final heat
were T. E. Ketching. jr., ]. w. Lawrence of the
New-York Athletic Club with handicap of three
seconds each; c. d. Trubenbach, of Columbia with
four seconds, and w Putnam, also of Columbia.
with ten seconds The two last named did not
start in the final tossing for third prize. which
Putnam This left the final heat a match
between Ketching and Lawrence. They hit the
water together on the plunge. and Lawrence. using
the well known trudgeon stroke, led for the first
turn of the tank by slight margin. Ketching
used the new Australian crawl stroke in the early
part of the race, but reSorted the trudgeon
later Coming up the tank for the last time they
swan stroke for stroke. and close together that
the winner was in doubt to the last stroke Ketch-
ing won by the narrowest margin in the fair time
Of :06 3-5.
The New-York Athletic Club six outclassed Yale
the water polo match. They scored almost at
will in the first half of eight minutes Goodwin
making the first goal in 216 and the second in 2s
Then Hesser took a hand. and. ceverly aided by
Goodwin scored two more goals. In the second
half of five minutes Yale played stronger defen-
sive game, and scoring done Cooke made
The Yale team too light for their heavier
opponents and lacked the team play which was a
feature of the Athletic Club six. The Yale six
played plucky game however, and made good
If losing fight. Cooke, Curtis and Reid showed to
advantage, and Reid played a strong defensive
game and in consequence roughly handled at
times, which only made him fight the harder. For
the New-York Athletic Club Goodwin and Hesser
were the stars. The latter unnecessarily rough
at times. Spencer took his place In the second
half. The lineup and