Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
WILLHOLD WATER
GAMES AT BIMINI
LOCAL AND REDoND0 TEAMS
TO MEET AT WATER POLO
HIGH AND FANCY DIVING WILL
BE SEEN
That Holborow and Lee VIII Compete
at Seattle Is Now Assured.
HoIboroW Versus
O'MalIey

That Marcus Lee and Frank Holbor-
ow will represent Southern California
in general and Los Angeles in partic-
ular in the northwestern swimming
championships to be held at Seattle
about the middle of August is now
practically assured.
Under the guidance and management
of Les Henry a schedule of water polo
games high diving, fancy swimming
and other aquatic sports is being ar
ranged which should easily secure the
remaining $125 which must be raised
TO send the southern experts to the
northern games. About $25 of the orig
nal $3.50 was raised in the recent water
polo game between the Venice and Re-
dondo teams, which the latter aggre-
gation won by the score of 3 to o.
Classy Events Arranged
A program is now being completed
for August 10 at Bimlni baths, which
will in all probability equal anything
of the kind ever held before on the
Pacific coast. A water polo game Will
be played which should be worth going
a long ways to witness, as an all star
amateur team will be picked to meet
the crack aggregation OF players from
Redondo which have hitherto proved
invincble. The amateur boys will be
the pick of the Venice and Los An
geles Athletic club teams, both of which
are playing first class polo.
The amateur team which Will clash
with the professional nine will be COM
posed of the following players, and 1t
is believed that the local boys will
enter the contest hot favorites: NJ
Lee back; Charles Bassett, sprint;
Stan Mitchell back Elk Brown, for
ward; Louis AlZette, guard; and j.
Watlington, forward. Lee and Mitch
ell are considered two of the best boys
now playing backs on any water polo
teams in the west, while Bassett is an
exceptionally classy performer as
sprint The other members of the team
are all A No. l men, and although the
Redondo players, many of whom are
life savers, are in first class condition,
it is thought by all who witnessed the
Redondo-Nenice game that the anna
teur team will prove to be too fast
for the Redondo aggregation,
The members of the Redondo team
who will face the All Stars are Crum,
forward; Christie, forward; Freeth,
goal, and the three Lelchner brothers.
backs and sprint respectively.
Experts in Races
Several swimming races have also
been arranged which will be held the
same evening as the water polo game.
Lee and Abegg will meet in the 22O-
ward SWIM and a close race should
result. Lee is at present in slightly
better form, and although Abegg is
former Southern California champion
and one of the fastest swimmers today
on the Pacific coast it is believed that
Lee will prove the faster of the two.
In the shorter races Holborow ana
O'NIallev will probably meet in either
the SO or 100 yard swims. O'Malley Is
the boy who beat that crack swimmer,
Scott Ieary, i'm the Pacific coast cham
pionships by the shortest of short
heads, proving himself to be one of
the best swimmers on the coast.
Between the halves of the water polo
game the Venice team will entertain
the sDectators by series of high and
fancy diving which should alone be
worth the price of admission. CHIEF
among the former viii be CoX's famous
fire dive which was executed to the
delight of thousands of persons recently
at Venice. Cox, who is the manager
of the Venice plunge, crawls into the
rafters over the plunge and covers
himself with gasoline, which he ig-
mites. He then dives, a shooting meteor
of fire. into the water below.
A preliminary water polo game Will
probably be held Friday night. August
G. at Redondo between the All Stars
and the RedOndo professionals. The
All Stars will, however, be two men
short in their lineup, Sherwood Kinney
and George Walton replacing Elk
Brown and Stan Mitchell, who are at
present at Catalina island
Don't simply allow it to die-that plan OF
yours. Find little capital through adYertis-