The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-20


year of 1909 may not have seemed a
very remarkable one in aquation. But
! to the close student of the sport it was
a year of great achievement and won
| derful improvement.
During the II months Just ELAPSED
both theoretical and practical swim
mers advanced rapidly, and as a class
not individually. Coaches like McKen-
zie, Mccormick. Sullivan, Kistler
Cady, Melfert, Helm and Cavin gave
! close attention to the new phases OF
the crawl stroke, studying and ex-
| perimenting, until each had worked out
a style of his own. in many cases to-
| tally different in action and movement
| from the original Australian variety
| introduced here in 1904. Frank Sui
| livan of the Illinois A. c.. of Chicago
and his remarkable achievement in
taking five boys. totally ignorant of the
in less than two years into a world
record team, tells its own tale Of the
value of his stroke 1t is strictly
American product, the long, easy
| straight arm reach, narrow leg thresh
| and absolutely Independent action OF
| arms and legs being Numerically the
reverse of the short, jerky arm move
| ment, wide kick and synchronous time
of the Australian variety.
Sullivan's special pupils-Richard
| Frizelle, Harry Hebner, William Vos-
burgh. Perry McGillivray and Leslie
! Chiville-made good after only a few
months of tuition, but it was only
) during 1909 that they reached cham
| pionship form. Leslie Chiville proved
a mediocre sprinter, but one of the
best swimmers in the country The
other four showed phenomenal speed
at so, 100 and 22O yards, and on May
| 20, in Chicago brought down the 400
yard worlds record of minutes ant
10 2-5 seconds, held by the New York
team composed of Daniels, Truben-
bach, Goodwin and South. to min
utes and 3 As seconds None of the
boys has yet reached his Goth year, ant
, McGillivray is only IL Frizille ha.
done such sterling work of late as tC
be classed by Western experts second
only to Daniels as an all around swim
mer.
/ Youngsters Develop.
| 1t is the high standard of the young
sters and novices that gave most en-
| enlargement during the year. When
boys from IA to Is years of age begin
| to press the veteran champions and in
many instances elbow them out of the
way. one begins to realize the great
strides that are being made and to
speculate on what the newcomers will
do when they reach maturity. And
the advance is real not comparative,
for the old timers have not let grass
grow under their feet. c. M. Daniels
of the New York A c.. silenced effec-
lively those who said he was on tn"
decline by establishing few more rec
ords at distance swimming and then
going after the back stroke figures. He
created new ones on December II
when he covered the classic $50 yards
in 2.O4 2-5 from a treadWater start in
a rs foot pool. This is the best time
ever made under the conditions. Other
veterans who deserve mention because
of their steady improvement are Bud
Goodwin of the New York A. Z. II. j.
Handy of the Illinois A. c. of Chicago
Ralph Shinton and Curtis Sloan of the
East Liberty A. c. of Pittsburg, A M.
Guessing of the Missouri A. {. OF 81.
Io,,is Leslie Rich of the Brook,ine
c. of Boston, and Scott Leary of the
Olympic club of San Francisco
Among the best of the 1909 crop are
w Auerbach, j. Z. MdHleli' Will W
penheim, J. Manley and Hamilton
Brown of New York; w. Anthony H.
Ayres and P. Scott of Philadelphia; j.
Cutnell and S. Malsack of Pittsburg;
7 Madermott, H. Huzzagh, j. M. GriI-
fin and w. S. Merriam of Chicago.
Several new teams were formed our
ing the wear either by the organizing
of swimming clubs or by the opening
Of aquatic departments in atnietic
clubs. The Argo S. c. and Y. M. Z. a.
of Philadelphia became active IN the
snort. the City cub of New YORK
concluded plans to do the same' the
Pittsburg A. c. began to corral mater
ia1 and New Orleans, Louisvllis' DEN
ver Seattle, and San Francisco all ac-
raneements and I'll try and have less
to say