Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-04
NEW SWIMMER IN AUSTRALIA
LongwOrth Blossoms Out Winner in
First Attempt.
MAKES NEW WORLDS RECORDS
Covers Three-0uRrters of Mile In
Seventeen Minutes and Forty
Two secOnds--Better Than
Daniels, Too.


NEW YORK. June S-For a number OF
wears Australia has been remarkable for
the production Of fast swimmers and the
land Of the kangaroo has maintained It's
reputation this season with another out
and out "phenom." Unlike the Cavills
Elieran. W.ckham and Beaurepaire, who
took more or less time to develop into the
championship class this new man. or rather
boy. has earned record fame at almost his
first header into the brine. Not only has
he placed his name on the scroll OF qua
tic history, but he has taken the measure OF
Frank e. Beaurepaire. the greatest middle
and distance swimmer OF this generation. At
a standard event.
The name of the new wonder is w. Long
worth and he halls from Rose Bay. New
South Wales In the championship OF that
territory, which marked the opening OF
the swimming season In the Antipodes,
Longworth made his debut, and though
some rumor had reached the outside world
about his prowess, nobody ever even
dreamed of the form which he subsequently
exhibited. He was entered in everything
from the sprints to the mile, and he man
fully took a crack at everything. In the
three-ouarters of a mile he did his best
work for he beat Beaurepaire In record
cisive style Longworth outswam Beaure-
paire and the youngster hit the finish In
II minutes, a. seconds.
The previous Australian mark for the
distance was IS minutes, seconds, by
Beaurepaire two years ago. and against
Longworth, the ex-record holder did much
better than his former figures The Ameri-
can record is II minutes, IS seconds, by
Daniels in a bath of sixty-five turns. but
with the same number of turns which
Longworth took, Daniels did ID minutes
80 seconds on Verona lake two years ago.
The English record In a bath Sf eleven
turns is II minutes. So seconds by S. Bat
tersby two years ago
In the 100 yards Cecil Healy just managed
to beat the youngster by a touch. and
IIealy was considered lucky, for Longworth
had something taken out OF him in trial
heat of another event. In a short time after
ward Longworth showed wonderful sprint
ing ability, though the hundred" may not
be his very best distance For all Journeys
above the century mark he exhibits rare
speed. as can be shown by his worlds
record for the 40 metres. He swsn the dis
lance In e5 seconds, wiping all the old
marks off the books. In statute measure
ment the distance is a fraction over 12O
hAof anu on Ad0d VI AfOhb Sums
can best be judged when It is understood
that the Australian record for the 100 yards
Is minute. i21S seconds, by Dick cavill
eight years ago. The English record
is minute I1% seconds by c. NJ. Daniels
of the New York Athletic club at the
Hackney baths. London. England. in 1907.
Though their theories are not very clear
the Australians have 1t figured now that
Longworth would swim rings around Dam
iels for anything over hesrhundred. In
writing about 1t one of the experts says:
Two of the Americans feats viii help
us to appraise the new Australian cham
pion's efforts at their worth. At Manchester
| in the High Street baths. on September Z.
1901 Daniels swan the 100 yards In 559s
seconds. At New York on April 49, 1910. he
covered 100 meters in e2% seconds 1t is
difficult TO conceive stin water conditions
better than those which prevailed at Man
chester and New York. They are both
twenty -five-yard courses and allow three
turns. Longworth Travelled almost eleven
yards further than Daniels New York
swim, and only occupied 2M seconds more.
Tbs report makes hack out OF Daniels.
1t also makes us wish 10 hear more OF
iLongworth." The Australian swimming au-
thorities are now regretting that they did
not know about L,ongworth IN time, as
they would have sent him TO England this
year