Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-24
Council Bluffs,
H, H, COrsOn Coming
to Give Instruction
in Art of Swimming
In Letter Sent Ahead He Describes
Varieties of Strokes and Kind
Likes Best.

H. IT, Horson. the international Young
Mems Christian association instructor in
swimming, will arrive in Council Bluffs
on Monday for the purpose Of conducting
a weeks swimming campaign at the local
association natatorium. a few weeks ago
at Youngstown, o., Mr.. Carson gave 24OO
lessons Physical Director Pierson of the
local association is anxious to have the
Council Bluffs boys enable Mr.. Corson to
break his best record in Council Bluffs
During the week he has visited all OF the
public schools and told the boys about
the swimming event and presented more
than 800 tickets. All of the instructions
Tor the week will be absolutely free
A band Of thirty young men will assist
Mr. Corson, and Physical Director Pierson
Is handling the big crowd Of boys who will
throng the building from $50 q. m. to
$3.50 p m. daily. The employed boys and
young men will be taught from TO
p m. every night.
In letter Mr.. Corson says that a proper
system is necessary, and he also believes
that tank-taught man can win over an
open-water-taught athlete, for by teaching
In tank one can get hold of the swim
mer's weak points more rapidly.
The art Of swimming is not hard to
master II the pupil is fortunate enough to
come under the right training" says Mr.
Corson.
The broad stroke on the breast at
present employed by all swimming in
structors, has held the art back The
stroke has no hygienic value in comparison
10 the trugion, or crawl stroke 1t is a
very difficult method either to learn or
teach and is at best a slow method Of
progression. Very few learn the stroke
gracefully, but my greatest objection to It
is that 1t utterly destroys a swimmers
prospects of learning the scissors kick
The frog kick is used with the broad
stroke and causes an unnatural spreading
OF the knees, resulting in the swimmer
working against himself in the recovery.
In the old-fashloned trudgeon stroke the
coordination did not permit OF a perfect
scissors kick that was free from any
clumsy feature, but the latest trudgeon
stroke, which was learned from the late
b. B. Herman, Ia the most perfect by
action vet demonstrated
If you watch person driving a canoe
with double bladed paddle OF should
you row boat, using the oars alter
nately, you can get an exact idea of the
propelling power OF the crawl stroke The
angle Of the body, with the head low and
the feet high, enables the swimmer 70
glide through a little hole in the water
histeau OF pIoWlnB through deep, wide
space, as in the old methods.
Il like to get a beginner who can dog
paddle little. From this 1 can imme-
diately lengthen out the arm work, and
with little change in the style of leg
work make n crawler of him. Many times
have fathers and mothers hesitated to
have their boys taught by qualified in
structors for fear that their knowledge
would make them more venturesome and
that they might get drowned. The result
OF this narrow minded policy has often
ended with disaster, as the boy would
steal away and teach himself some ragged
style that in case OF emergency would
end in tragedy.
Il am strong believer in water wings
for the purpose of instruction, and for
persons who are heavy in the water. I |
use the wings at first. Tho wings hold |
the beginner up and enable him to &C |
Guire perfect STYLE and as soon as
good style Is acquired the wings are dis
carded as an obstruction. Get your STYLE |
first and speed will follow"
Mr.. Corson will teach any man or boy
in the city how to swim IL they will call |
at the Young Mems Christian association
office and secure a ticket