Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-23
SWIMMING CONTESTS IN
LAC00NB BETWEEN PIERS
TWsnIy-Ons Amateur Champion
ships Will be Decided In
lhrseday Meet.
EVERY PHASE OF WATER WORK
There Will Be Experts From Nearly
Every Athletic Club in the United
States on Hand to Participate In
Eventt-Junior emo eenior Class
es.

No less than twonty-one Amateur
Athletic Union championships will be
decided at the thrco-day meet, which
will be held at the Exposition this
week beginning Thursday.
The contest will embrace every
phase of expert water work, includ-
ing the various kinds of swimming,
diving and distance plunglng. togcth-
er with championship games of wat
er polo. These contests will take
place i'm basin between the two
wings of the government pier.
Practically every athletic club In
the United States will be represented
at this meet. The clubs of Chicago
and New York will send large dee
cations, and as there has always OK
listed the keenest rivalry between
these two organizations. the events in
which they participate Will be WORTH
travelling across the continent to SEQ.
The championship will he partici-
pated in by Il senior class and n jun
Tor class. The FIRST division will he
open to all registered amateur ath-
letcs; the second division to all reg
istered amateurs who have not won
first, second or third places.
Contests Classified.
For the purpose of defining the
eligibility to the junior class. the
events of this class VIII be divided
into five contests, as follows:
Swimming.
2--E3ack stroke.
3-Breast stroke
4-Fancy diving.
5. Plunge for distance
Tb, ,,,f,, tn,
events will be ineligible for further
competition as a junior in them. But
the fact that swimmer has been on
winning polo or relay team will not
disqualify him from the Junior class.
The following events will take
place:
Junior Championships
1.-50 yards.
200 yards.
3-320 yards
4.-440 yards.
$50 yards.
Conc Mile
7-Back stroke, 80 yards
S-Breast stroke, so yards.
9-Fancy diving.
10-Pmnge for distance.
The senior championships will be
like the Above except events Z and s
Will be over couses 100 yards long ana
200 yards long respectively. then in
this senior class there will be an adj
ditional event which will be Il 200
yard delay race in which four men
will participate OIL each team.
Medals For Winners.
To the winner OF first place in
every event a gold medal emblamatic
of the championship of the United
will be given. Second and third place
winners will be given silver and
bronze medals respectively. a large
banner VIII be awarded to the team
OF the Athletic club. or college scor
ing the highest number of points.
All the judges have not yet been
announced, but among them there will
be the following: Charles A. Borna
cago Athletic Association, and Thos.
O'Callahan and Walter Lcc, of the
New York Athletic Club.
Diving and PIunging.
The take.off for the fancy diving
Will IL from three heights-10, 90
and 30 feet. There will be five rcgu-
lation dives: plain front plain back
front jack.kn!fe, back jack-knife and
one-and-a-half dives.
There will also be three special
dives to be selected by each OF the
contestants. but in no case will the
contestants be allowed to give one of
the five regulations dives mentioned
above as one OF the specials. In the
front jackkn'fe dive the contestant
must strike the water with his head
within six feet of the diving platform
The same rule applies TO the back
jack-knife, and all dives must be made
head first, no other kind being recog-
nized by the judges.
The maximum height of the plat
form from which the men will plunge
for distance VIII he eighteen inches
above the water, The contestant will
lie required to plunge from standing
position, the body being kept motion
less-face downward-after striking the
water The plunge will terminate at
the expiration of sixty seconds wheth-
er the diver las raised his head out
OF the water or not. Any one dis
turbing the water so as to interfere
with the progress of any competitor
will be disqualified from the contest