The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-21
PROF. CALLS MAKES FAST
SWIM AT Y. M. c. A. POOL
NEARLY APPROACHES RECORD
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YARDS.
Gives Fine Exhibition Of Natatorial
Art Before Big Crowd.

As feature OF his natatorial eXhi
bition last evening. in the Y. M. c. A.
swimming pool. Prof. Calls, who is
conducting swimming lessons at the
Y. Nj. c. A. this week. attempted to
lower the national Y. NJ. c. A. record
FOR 20 yards. with one turn. He failed
TO knock any time off the record es-
tablished, but swan the distance in
IL S-5 seconds. just 2-5th of second
longer than the record, which is 10
l-5th. c. NJ. Daniels of New York.
holds the worlds amateur record for
the distance, at IL 10th. without a.
turn.
Prof. Calls exhibition last evening
was a splendid one. He showed that
he is as much at home in the water
as on land. He gave number of
fancy and racing strokes, all forms of
diving, resuscitation of the nearly
drowned, etc. Prof. Calls informs The
News that he is organizing a life
saving class, which he expects TO COM
plete today, and from now until the
close of his series will teach this class
what to do In cases of emergency.
During the swimming exhimition. too
last evening, there was a 56-yard re-
lay swim for boys, two teams COM
peting. Roy Drier and Paul Roehm
won. i'm 45 seconds, defeating Howard
Chamberlain and Albert James.
Value OF Swimming.
Prof. Calls submits the following on
the value OF swimming:
Five thousand lives are lost every |
year in America through drowning |
question all or nearly all of
these lives could have been saved to
he comfort and happiness of their
antilles and TO the benefit of the COM
If the victims had only known
low TO make the few strokes necessary
Q keep head above water until help
Irrived
The tragedy of these fatalities is
ccentuated through the fact that they
re so frequently the sad finale of a
lay of pleasure. In nearly every case
he gloom of death descends upon a
| .
pom innocent enjoyment. The ven
uresome youth makes that fate al
Ways imminent, when the pleasure
eekers lack the knowledge of swim
ming.
Cardinal Wolsey after his downfall,
areer to that of little wanton boys
Who swim on bladders." In this he
ot only characterized an over ween-
ng ambition. but chose for his smile
he most striking one that could be
ound. For boys i'm the water will out {
are and .out-dp each other at any
ost even to their undong If parents
ould only be brought to see the doom 6
which hangs over their children when
hey go out on the water without the
bility to save themselves in the event
( some catastrophe. they would never
est until every one of them could swim
veil. Some fathers and mothers hest
ate to have their children taught by
qualified instructors, this narrow
minded policy often resulting in an ac-
himself some ragged style that in case |
f emergency would result i'm tragedy 8
The philosopher i'm the open boat
atechized the yokel and. finding that II
lie could not read. informed him that :
le had lost half of his life. When the &
torn came up, the boat capsiZed. and {
he fool retorted NOW YOU have lost
~ your life" But they managed
hings better in the golden days of
freeze when the laws required that
very Athenian youth should know how
o swim and read.
We might today make progress by
copying that earlier institution. Yet
Without that IL still remains within the
'ower of fathers and mothers to look
fter this important and often most
'ital matter.