Evening star., 1912-06-30
DIVING AS FEATURE
Municipal Swimming Events to
Be Held July 4.
MEDALS TO BE AWARDED
Safe and Sane" Committee Needs
About $500 More to Defray
Celebration Expenses.
MEDALS TO BE AWARDED

| The third annual municipal swimming
and diving tournament to be held at the
| municipal bathing beach Thursday. in
| conjunction with the plans Of the safe
and sane committee for celebrating In
/ dependence day, promises to be a bigger
/ success than either of the two previous
events of the kind held in Washington.
| Already a large number of entries have
| been received. Officials who will be in
charge of the tournament were an
nounced yesterday by DR.. W. B. Hudson,
superintendent Of the beach and member
of the safe and sane committee. who
is arranging this feature of the Fourth
of July program.
DR.. William Tindall, secretary to the
board of Commissioners, will be honorary
referee and P F. w. Grsnfs, atsteT will pra BE
c. f. Beckett will off1ciate as clerk The
judges will be DR.. A. NJ. Zinkhan n. G.
Hansen. DR.. w. r. Jobson, DR.. c. L. G.
Anderson. J. NJ. Meany. DR.. H. w.
Moffitt and r. B. Patterson.
Fourteen events have been arranged.
three for midgets. five for juniors and
six for seniors. Gold, silver and bronze
medals will be awarded. Besides the
regular events. "a special relay race be-
tween teams Of four boys from each play
| ground will be held. The tournament will
start at 1 pm. The Engineer Band from
the Washington barracks will be station
| ed near the pools and will render selec-
| tions appropriate to the occasion.
Details Not Completed.
| While the safe and sane committee
| has completed the general program for
! the observance of the Fourth this year,
| the various subcommittee which are in
| trusted with its execution still have
| number of details to work out, and they
will not finish their labors before the
! middle of the week
| The biggest job is that on which the
finance committee is working Until yes
scribed by the public. with which to de-
fray the expenses of the celebration.
About 500 more is needed. Treasurer
George w, White is of the opinion that
a large portion of the amount necessary
to be raised will be contributed before
Thursday. Subscriptions should be mail
ed to Mr.. White. In care of the National
Metropolitan Bank.
Thursdays celebration will begin with
patriotic exercises to be held in the Pan
American Union building at 10 a I'm. John
Barrett, director of the union, will de-
liver the principal address At 9:30 am.
the Marine Band will give a concert in
this building Daylight fireworks will
be held at the conclusion of the patriotic
exercises.
Swimming and canoe races will feature
tHe dIleTIoOl pTOSTdHl An aviation eX-
hibition by officers of the Signal Corps
of the United States Army also is sched-
uled for the afternoon. In the evening
there will be another fireworks display,
followed by an hours illumination of
Pennsylvania avenue.
Sons of Revolution to Attend.
The board of managers of the District
of Columbia Society of the Sons of the
Revolution has unanimously voted to ac-
cept the invitation Of the Commissioners
of the District to be present at the exer-
| cises to be held in the Pan-American
| Union building. The members Of the
| society are planning to attend in a body.
| Other patriotic revolutionary societies
| have been invited to attend the exercises.