New-York tribune., 1908-03-05
DANIELS BEATS HANDY.
PROVES HIS SUPERIORITY.
Cham pion Outsscims Westerner an
Sportsman's Shoe Relay Race.

proved conclusively at the Motor Boat and
Sportsmans Show last night that Henry j.
Handy of Chicago, is not in his class, at least
so far as short distances are concerned They
met in a 200 yard relay race and Daniels had
Bud Goodwin for a partner. while Handy was
teamed up with c. d. Trubenbach. With the
exception of Handy all are members of the New
York Athletic Club.
According to the conditions each man was to
swim 100 Yards Trubenbach and Goodwin
opposed each other in the first relay and 1T
did not require a pair of spectacles to see that
these two going to have close race. AT
the start Goodwin forged to the front by a yard
or So but after half the distance had been traV-
elled the pair were on even terms, and from there
ON they swan stroke for stroke and completed
their part Of the programme on exactly even
terms This made the New Workers smile for
it was obvious that the pair wanted an even
start in the second relay.
Now we'll see" went up the shout all along
the line "just where Handy figures with Dan
iels in hundred"
The men struck the water together, put
Danny" as the champion is called by his
friends Immediately showed in front. With
every stroke the New Yorker drew away, until
at the end he led the Chicago man by nearly
twenty yards. The time for the winning team
was / minute 81 1-5 seconds, and Daniels's time
for his half of the race 81 40 seconds.
The eighty yard handicap brought out large
field of swimmers. but the allowances allotted
liberal that the back markers had llttle
chance. j. Curren of the New YORK
Swimming Club, the final heat in % 30
seconds He had sixteen seconds start. f. Nc
Cluskey of the Bath Beach Swimming Associa-
ton, with allowance of seventeen seconds,
finished second.
The feature of to-night's swimming will be
the first individual clash between Daniels and
Handy-the East against the West. They will
swim hundred yards from scratch. The
match may result in something sensational be-
cause Daniels is at his best and is thor
oughly familiar with the tank.
Handy does not claim to be sprinter. but
he is a great long distance swimmer, and it
was surprising when he suggested the distance
of hundred yards. He says he will give
Daniels all he wants to do to defeat him. Inc
Westerner will also endeavor to break his own
worlds record for hundred yards, breast
stroke, tonight.
A water polo game is also carded for to-
night between the evenly matched teams Of
Columbia and of the College of the City of New
York. Water polo is composite of football
hockey, prizefghting and basketball in the
water
will be the 60O-yard relay race, in which Daniels
and Handy are paired to swim 800 yards apiece
against six of the fastest men that the Bath
Beach aggregation produce Each Batn
Beach swimmer is to go 100 yards Danlels,
when spoken to about the race last night. said:
Il consider it the toughest proposition that L
have ever been I'D against and it will require
all the speed skill and strength that Handy and
l can muster to beat the sextet at the finish
but | do believe have fair chance TO VIII
The twenty-nine regular events in the ma
tional indoor fly and bait casting tournament
have been increased by two special contests, one
of which is open to all the guides of the show
The event is a single handed fly cast, weight OF
the rod unlimited There will be gold, silver and
bronze medals. This contest Will take place on
Saturday morning at II o'clock. The second
added special is open one for bait casters
using steel rods only, the rods to be furnished
by the referee. Two steel rods Will be donated
prizes.
The bait casters of the show remarkably
skillful and like Joe Emmett's baby, they climb
SO high they touch the sky by sometimes cast
ing their bats and line through the arches of
the steel framework of the amphitheatre ninety
feet above the floor and sometimes, not satisfied
with this they throw it across two arches at
once.
In the military school team championship
shoot yesterday afternoon the st. Johns School
of Manlus n Y defeated the gunners of
the Peekskill Military School. by a score of 22+
to 300. The best score was hung up by c. F.
Busch, of the winners, who tOtalled Al. Five
other academies are to shoot, and the winners
will receive d trophy. The fol-
lows: