Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-13

BALTIMORE Md. February 13.-The
two-days' meet of the first championship
swimming contest of the South Atlantic
Association began at the Baltimore Attn
Ietic Club last night 1t Will end to-
night The best swimmers of this city and
Washington were represented. ana from
all indications the Baltimore Athletic
Club will carry off the laurels at the end.
Ey the time DR.. Charles keidel. jr.,
announced the first event which was the
1up-yard heats, the space around the
large swimming pool was crowded with
members of the club and friends OF the
visiting swimmers. Besides the athletic
club there were in the contest swimmers
from the Central Y. NJ. c. y. the Wash
ington y NJ: {. A., the Maryland SWIM
ming club and the Cross Country Club.
In most of the events it was hard
fight between the Athletic Club and the
ashingtonians. The Central Y. NJ. {. A.
boys came In for some of the honors. The
most important event won by the visitors
was the 1e,Lyard relay race which counted
1V points.
The first heat OF the O-yard event was
won by Rrennick of the B. 4. c.. whose
time was 1 minute 10 % seconds. Dor
sey OF the Central y. NJ. c. \. came IN
second. only few seconds later: The
race Uas between those two. Homer
bert Of the Maryland Swimming Club
and DeLashmut OF the Washington T. NJ
c. a were more than two laps behihd
IN the windup.
F.. Norris OF the Maryland Swimming
club carried off the honors in the plunges.
The distances were as follows: Morris, ~
Yards = inches; McCabe of the K. 4. c.. IS
yards inches; Dooley OF the Washington
u NJ c. a. "A yards inches: Gosnei!
of the r. A. c., ID yards. Kaiser of the
central Y. NJ. c. A.. Parkinson OF the
Washington v NJ. c. A.. and Honrebert
of the Maryland Swimming Club came up
under 40 yards.
Of the Washington Y. NJ. G. A. The dis
lance was 16O yards and the time i min
ute and 81 seconds. Nelson OF the b. A
g. came in second and made a good show
ing. being only a few laps behind the
Washingtonian. The others in the race
were Dorsey. Johanessen. Herman, Bruce
and Jay of the Central Y. NJ. G. A.,
Goody. Rutherford. Cults and Wheeler of
the Washington y. NJ. c. A: and Nelson
McGreevy. Gosnell CoSsWell and bren-
nick of the 3. A. c.
The most interesting as we'll eXcit-
ing event of all was the 44o-yard swim.
which was won by McGreevy of the Bal
timore Athletic Club in tight finish with
Stewart of the Washington Y. Nj. G., a.
The race meant swimming the length of
the pool and back eleven times. From
the start Stewart took the lead and kept
his place until he had made about ten
laps McGreevy was only few feet be-
hind him and held his position. Eager of
the Central Y. NJ. &. A. and Green of
the Cross Country Club continued to drop
behind the other two men after they had
made about six laps. They held together
until the finish. when they were each two
laps behind the winner.
When the race was about half over
Stewart seemed to weaken and did not
gain again. He used the side stroke al
together and could not increase his speed.
McGreevy started out with steady over
hand stroke. which he kept up until the
finish. McGreevy's time was minutes
g.; seconds.
The program for this evening will con-
sist of a 1OO-yard swim So-yard breast
stroke (heatS). 3O-yard swim and fancy
diving. In addition to the clubs repre-
sented last night the Doyle Athletic Club
will enter the contest tonight.