Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-29
SWIMMERS TRAIN
FOR JULY RACES
KEEN PREPARATION FOR THE
COAST CHAMPIONSHIPS
MANY TITLE HOLDERS WILL BE
IN VENICE EVENTS
Southern Aquatic Experts Expected
to Make Good Showing Against
Star Men of the North Who
Have Sent in Names

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for the Pacific Coast championship
which will be held at the Venice
plunge July 9, 10 and II. are working
faithfully for the different try-outs. \
misprint on the entry blanks desig'
mates the women's ffty-yard dash fol-
Southern California. This is incorrect
and should read championship of tbs
Pacific coast.
The competitive high and fancy div
! ing is another added feature that has
| never been scheduled before in sum
mer tournaments. Amateur diving j
one of the most spectacular and popu-
lar events held in the national cham
Dionships. The methods of competition
/ and Judging have not been definitely
/ decided upon, but will before the end
| of the week.
The officials chosen for the meet are:
Judges of finish-O. Morgan, H. Sails
bury and J. B. Raitt.
Timers-A. Best, w. Henderson and
C. Fitzhenry.
Clark, DR.. Beach and Dean Cromwell.
Clerks of course-W Wallace Robb and
w. Collins.
Committee in charge-J Warrington,
Gerdo Whelan, Fred MeCarVer and l..
A. Henry.
William Henderson. assistant seere-
tary of the Los Angeles Athletic etub,
has kindly offered the sleeping apart
ments at the Venice annex of the CLUB
for the visiting swimmers.
An even dozen out-of-town contest
ants are expected to participate, and
the committee in charge of the regis
tration will be greatly disappointed If
a large number is not signed up by
July 8.
Champion to Compete
Frank Holborow, the Southern Cali
fornia champion in the so and 100 yard
dashes, is still a comparatively young
man. He started his career in the wa
ter at the first tournament held by the
Southern California Swimming asso-
citation at Ocean Park in August, 1904
His rise has been a slow but steady
one, until now he has no competitors in
any of the races in the south. Hol-
borrow was defeated time after time by
Wilbur Kyle of San Diego in the tour
naments of 1905, 1906 and 1907, but in
February, 1908, at Bimini baths he out
distanced his southern city competitor
in the So 100 and 220 yard races. These
were the last races of any consequence
KYLE has ever entered In Holborow $
best time n the 50-yard dash in COM
petition was 2S seconds. and 1:O6 IN the
100 McWood of the University of CAL
ifornia and the Olympic club of san
Francisco has a record of 1;0l 20 in the
100 Frank Holborow, never having
been pressed in this distance claims he
can equal if not lower McWood's time.
Walter Abegg, the phenomenal Swiss
champion, and holder of the Southern
California championship in the 22O-
yard race, is thinking of forsaking this
race and entering only the 44O and $50
yard distances. Abegg's victory over
the coast champion Walter Pomeroy,
at Naples last year in the 44O-yard
dash has convinced him that he is bet
ter suited for the latter distances. In
whichever event he enters, however, he
is going to have the hardest race of his
life, for in the races at Bimini baths
last month he won the 220 by a very
few feet, and was outdistanced in the 440
by Howard Taylor, and i'm the $50 by
Marcus Lee, students of the Los An
geles high school. Howard Taylor,
present holder of the Southern Califor-
MIA championship in the 440, started
his meteoric swimming career last July
at Naples by finishing in second place
in the 440 and defeating the coast
champion, Walter Pomeroy, in this
event.
Lee Is a Conner
Marcus Lee, Southern California
champion in the SS0-yard dash, captain
of the Bimini baths swimming club.
captain Of the Los Angeles high school
swimming team, and a member of the
Los Angeles gym club, shows by his
many titles that he is a consistent per-
former in nearly everything he takes
up. His swimming career has not been
a long one. but a successful one. He
defeated Walter Abegg. Frank Hol-
borrow and George Watkins in the half
mile in the recent meet held at Bimini
baths. His time was not phenomenal
and did not equal the time made by
Ben Warrington. Lee is showing inn
prOVement every day, and no doubt
will be close up for the Pacific coast
championship honors.
Ben Warrington, who is training for
the 440 and $50 yard dashes at Bimini
baths, may get into condition whereby
he can give his old time rivals the
race for their lives. Elt Brown, the
Stanford football player. Is training at
Avalon, and sends word that he will
be on hand July 8.
Miss Helen Perkins of Long Beach,
winner in the Southern California wo-
mems championship race, has con-
scented to enter. and by her easy vic
tory over Miss Newkirk and Miss VIII
lis of Santa Monica has shown that she
will be a hard contender to defeat for
championship honors.
George Crazy. Southern California
title holder in the fiftyyard dash. hos
entered this event for the coast cham
pionship. and expects to break a world $
record in the junior division. Crary
viii be IS years old in September.