New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
PRINCETON WINS TITLE
Easily Captures Intercollegiate
Swimming Championship.
QUAKERS ARE FAR BEHIND
Two Records Broken, in Spite Of
Slim Entry List, at Sleeps
head Bay.

! neaQ bay.
Princeton won the intercollegiate outdoor
swimming championship very easily al
Sheepshead Bay Yesterday afternoon, scor
ing total Of 20 points. Just twice as many
as the University Of Pennsylvania, which
was second. Brown University. which has
not been a member Of the intercollegiate
League for some time was third. with
eight points and the College of the city N
| New York was fourth, with seven. Column
bia had few men entered, but failed to
score Yale did not send single repre-
/ sentative. nor did Amherst Cornell or
/ Williams
| Despite the slim entry list there was
lot of good sport. and two of the marks
made i'm the first meet of the kind held
at Travers Island a year ago were bet
/ tered r. l.. Smith, Of Brown broke the
record in the 1co-yard swim made Last year
and T. II. Robinson, of Princeton, lowered
! the time OF the quartermile swim by hVe
seconds, the new record being 6.5S. In addi-
ton TO the college swimming there were
several Amateur Athletic Union events on
the programme r. Z. Frizelle, who swan
unattached. although he belongs TO the st.
/ Louis Athletic Club. won the lV0-yard
swim open to Amateur Athletic Union
members, defeating the best Of the metro
politan swimmers, including J. H. Reilly,
| Of the New York Athletic club
! Robinson swan a well Judged race in the
quarter mile. and won by twenty-five yards
Bischoff Of the City College, got on first
| but Robinson was not long I'm plough
| ing his way into the lead. and at the ~
1 ward mark he was couple Of yards IN
| front of the field. Each stroke carried the
| Princeton man slowly ahead. and he turned
| for his second trip a good fifteen YARDS IN
the lead This was AZ the 3y,-yard marx
when Gosnell. also of Princeton was sec
! ond and Borden, of the University OF
! PENNSYLVANIA. third, about ten yards be-
| hind the second Prncetonian. Right on 10
the finish Robinson increased his Lead al
! though In the last forty yards. when ne
saw that he had the other men distanced'
he loafed, and padded across the Inc
Gosnell had a hard fight with Borden IN
the last hundred yards but he hnally man
aged 10 answer the Quaker5 chahehse
and took the place by FIVE yards.
Robinson also did good work In the ono
mile swim q little later, finishing SECOND
TO l. w. Anthony, Of the University Oh
PENNSYLVANIA. Anthony, using po"erlu
trudgeon stroke. forged TO the front In the
first half dozen yards, with Robinson Ils",
! behind him Bertrand, Of Columbia anu
| Rorden of PENNSYLVANIA, kept up the pace
Of the others for about nifty yards anu
then dropped back gradually. kopihSoh .
earlier race told on him. for in the hISt
snriut TO get the lead Anthony manager
! IN heat him out, and he went furtuer away
AZ every stroke after that. Al the wv 'i
| urn Anthony was leading by htteen ya!us'
- pohtneon second. and Bertrand going
| ring half a dozen strokes ahead oil DOT
! den, - .. him
Ar,honv soon had the race all to MN
| - "a flor the first five hundred yards
/ q was only a question OF by no" I'ucH "e
! r,o,,id heat Robinson. and finally ne pe".
him across the line by an even NUM-
,ards Robinson, however. had Ieit b''
! I'D and Borden nearly two hundred Sa'uS
| ''" -, md less than hve yards apart.
| - - - ,orl,ed hard and until the last
| -, ,..,,5s had the lead on the Quaker.
| A. that point, however. Borden Sprlh'eu
ard drevy up on even terms WIN inc 'o'u'''
a., .r For the entire hundred yards
,aov fought it out stroke for stroke anu
| ,ben tho New Yorker weakened ana bo'uei
heat hin ly three yaTos' ,o
| t9rovyn made its showing III the i"-
ward swim. i'm which the team lo'',
provjdcrcc took both first ana seoo'u
| laos II was "A tight race all the way
| ta,o,oen Atur,ford and Smith, OF Brown,
ga t,iseIe of tie College Of the Guy Oh
New York, and it was not until inc ias'
few strokes that Smith pulled into inc ieau,
,,nrnford finished second, inches ahead oi
| Eisclc. o, -,
TITO diving Of the collegians was rot UP
40 tho high standard set a year ago Gus
| ,o,, uorn,an. OF the College Of the 'i'y VI
| Ic,y York. had little opposition ana hau
no ,.ficulty in winning the contest VIZ"
Rutberfurd Laurence. OF Princeton seco"u
The summaries follow;
40 yard swlm-won by p H. Robinson
! - on' n A. Gosnell. Princeton srcoid, -
N Borden. University of Pennsylvania '""'
! Time, 0.j3. , Harold
400 ward swim dnitcd) Won By {. nafo'd
| cav, Wv S'tEH y r Cuiran. city A. C.. sce9na5 .
| y Manly. New York n, C.. taird lhh', 'op -
Ioo-yard swlm mo.ice Won N n ~ D. Grown
Brown univsrsi,yJ. ". Eisele. College OF Tho
IN 81 New York, third. Time. los 10
ono-haH-miIe swim won BY H. Isn IA @ seeond
trinceS Wis:bI frinceton third. Time i5:2S 10
Ioo-sard swim Copenl Won BY orl T. A. T. e.. Gee
| zeIe unattached. q. Ash, Ne" 1oIh "a Time
Snd. + "A Reilly. New York 4. c" th"u' i'''''
| 100 ., col
Fancy divlnswon by Gus'ay ,i bsr III points;
Iege of the CITY Of New fork, WIZ Second win
U1therfurd Lawrence, Princeton sts,S p'' Of Tho
| ;OII points: Franklin Fielding co!nctss Nv
/ CIV Of New York. third. with " poln'' ..
enc,%s ;~i%mwGi2 BY / u R H%IS"n,
Princeton. second j. NJ BoId,n,
p,nrsyiyaniu. third. Time. 1915 40 :,
200 ysrd swim dlandicapi-Wo" "a Goodwin.
Ritfer dltv A C. - seconds; l., ID ., uagey
New York A. .. 90 seconds, esc9na' q OF & &
CitJ 4. :. ~ seconds. third TINS ''''