New-York tribune., 1911-01-01
RECORDS FOR SWIMMERS
College Men Make New Marks in
Year lust Closed.
CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR YALE
The Intercollegiate Association
Active in Drafting Rules for
Swimming and Water Polo.

The year 1910 was one OF remarkable i'm
provement in collegiate aquatic sports For
the first time in its history the Intercol-
| legiate Swimming Association took the inl-
uative in amending Amateur Athletic
| Union rules and drafted a water polo code
that has proved beneficial to the game. II
also instituted the outdoor championships
which resulted in one of the most success
ful meets ever held. 1t claimed and OBJ
tanned Amateur Athletic Union recognition
| for Its records, and laid plans for the en-
largement Of its membership which prom
ise to bear fruit in the near future.
The activity of the officers Of the associa-
ton was also instrumental in inducing sew
eral institutions to take up swimming and
organize teams. Cornell and West Point
among them, and they made the sport pop
ular among students and their following
The meets in the tournament for cham
pionships were better attended than ever
before, and the proceeds from these meets
placed the swimming associations OF the
universities in the league on a sound
financial basis.
The opening of the Carnegie natatorium
at Yale was one of the features Of the
year. 1t is one Of the finest in the world
for competitive purposes, and has already
done much TO develop good watermen.
Statistics show that as many students at
New Haven followed aquatics in 1910 as all
the rest Of the sports put together.
marked increase In the number Of men
who went out for the swimming and water
polo teams was noticed, and the standard
OF contestants improved. both individually
and as a class, in every branch of the
sport W. Howe, of Yale, reduced the
50-yard record of 26 9-5 seconds. made by
f. Denniston. Of Princeton, to 26 1-5 sec
onds; John Shryock, of Pennsylvania, low
cred W. Chambers's mark for 100 yards
from GO 3-5 seconds 10 90 seconds; Robert
Loree. Of Yale, bettered the plunge for
distance figures OF 72 feet, by W. Beattie.
to 72 feet 8 inches. and the fancy diving
of John stoddard, of Yale, was practically
perfect.
The introduction of the open water
championships served to develop a branch
Of swimming in which collegians had been
sadly deficient. Hamilton Brown. of
Princeton won both events held, the 44O
yard and one-mile swims. and his respec
tive times minutes IS 10 seconds and 2S
minutes "a 2-5 seconds. now class as stand
ards. They are creditable performances.
when It is considered that the furlong was
looked upon in the past as the limit Of
college mans endurance
Yale won team honors both In swimming
and water polo during the year. and the
Individual indoor titles were captured as
follows: Fifty and 100 yard swims, John
Shryock. Pennsylvania: 220-yard swim, S.
B. Palmer Yale; fancy diving. John Stod-
dard, Yale; plunge for distance, Robert
Loree, Yale Tho high diving champion
ship, held from a 3s-foot tower at Travers
Island, was won by II. Platt, Of Princeton.
Among the other men who deserve special
mention because their work was almost as
good as that OF the champions are Cutler
and Wilmington, Of Harvard; Denniston.
Gross and Gosnell. Of Princeton; Graham
and Clement OF Pennsylvania, and Wins
low and Summers. of Yale, sprinters; An
thony, of Pennsylvania; House, Of the COL
lege of the City Of New York: Bertrand and
Mackey of Columbia; McGregor and Hyde.
of Yale, and Eyre. Of Williams, distance
men; Parke, of Princeton Hans, OF Penn
sylvana: Hughes, Dunn and Carey, OF
Yale, and Patterson, of Columbia, fancy
divers, and Peters, OF Columbia; Willis, OF
Pennsylvania, and Reid, OF Yale, plungers.