Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-12
OLYMPIC CLUB
RECORD BROKEN
HOLBORR0W WINS 100-YARD
RACE IN FAST TIME
McWooD CAPTURES 44o-YARDS
IN EXCITING CONTEST
Between Races at Venice Divers Give
Spectacular Exhibition-Large
Crowd Sees Aquatic
Sports

VENICE, July 1.-THE events of the
Pacific Coast Swimming association
pulled off here tonight were the 100
yard dash, won by Frank Holborrow
in one minute and tYo seconds, and
the 440-yard dash, won by William b.
McWood of the Olympic club of San
Francisco in six minutes and twenty
seconds.
The starters in the short event were
o. Malley of Ocean Park, Frank Hol-
borrow of Venice, j. Scott OLeary or
the Olympic club and Vaughn of the
Olympic club. The course was once
across the tank and return to the
starting point. At the report of the
pistol the four men took off with a
rush, O'Leary taking the lead and
maintaining it to the seventy yard
mark, when he was gradually over
taken by Holborrow and dropped back
to third place, finishing in that po-
sition. o. Malley of Ocean Park, who
finished second, got bad start at the
take off and had considerable ground
to make up. and by a sensational spurt
at the finish ran Holborrow close
race. The latter became sick as he
touched the finish point and, fainting
away, had to be carried to his dressing
room. J. Scott O'Leary of the Olympic
club finished third and was thoroughly
exhausted at the end of the race. All
used the Australian crawl as their
stroke.
The time. 1902, beats the Olympic
club record of 1903 3-5, made by
O'Lenry, and is three and three-fifths
short of the Pacific coast record of
one minute fiat made by him at Port
land on both straightaway and turn
ing course. 1t falls considerably be-
hind the national record of ;57 10 and
the worlds record of 55 2-5, both held
by Daniels.
The four forty proved to be an ex-
citing contest and was marked by a
sensational sprint at the finish between
Marcus Lee and William McWood,
who won the contest. The starters
were Howard Taylor of Los Angeles
High school, George McManus of Ven
ice Edward Kitlo of the Piedmont club
of Oakland, Marcus Lee of Venice, Nc
Wood OF the San Francisco Olympic
club and Frank Holborrow of Venice.
McWood finished first, with Lee a
close second and Kitlo third. The
course was eight and two-third times
across the tank. The contestants took
off at the report of the pistol, each
swimming into a trudgeon stroke Hol-
borrow and McMannus dropped out at
the second turn, leaving but the four
swimmers to finish the contest. Nc
Wood swan a thoroughly consistent
race, taking the lead and maintaining
it with an easy stroke, reserving his
forces for the finishing sprint.
At the last turn, as the swimmers
came into the stretch, Lee let loose an
extraordinary amount of reserve
strength and started after the leader
in an effort to win the event. Nc
Wood let himself out and the two came
under the cord with a rush, scarcely a
length separating them, while a thou
sand voices made the old bathhouse
ring to the rafters as the assembled
crowd gave voice to their excitement.
The time of the race, $40 fiat, was
very slow and falls short of the per-
formance of Francis Gayley's Olym-
pic club record of 500 by 1S seconds,
and lacks 21 seconds of equaling the
worlds record of G. Kiernan of Aus
tralia, who swan the distance in 5:19.
In the interim between the two
events, Jake Cox and his coterie OF
divers amused the audience with a
number of spectacular stunts from the
twenty and forty-foot diving platforms,
taking off in spirals, half-spirals, back
and front jackknives. going by twos
and finishing up in a series of double
piledrivers, which deluged the officials
and newspaper men who were standing
on the tiling. For this last piece of
satanic mischief they were invited out
side by a number of the scribes, who
intimated that they had something in
teresting to show them, but for some
reason or other one and all refused
to. go.
The officials were the same as at the
previous sessions, with the exception OF
DR.. Beach and Clarence Clark. whose
places as judges were filled by Sails
hI1rU and Rest.