New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-28
Swimmers Paddle
to Many Records

one has only TO glance over the "hci0-
sale smashing of scholastic, collegiate. ma
tional and worlds swimming records made
during the twelvemonth Just past to real
lie what surprising Improvement took place
among American followers of water sports
I'm one short year But even more con-
vincing were the truly wonderful per-
formances shown in every section OF the
country by boys and girls. When young
sters OF from twelve to seventeen pegin 10
figure conspicuousy I'm almost every
branch of aquatics. a thing never before
witnessed in any country, there Is cause
for speaking Of sensational progress.
Now, mark what was accomplished in
1913 by novices, most of them serving
their first season I'm the field of competi-
ton.
Joseph Wheatly, OF New York. lad OF
seventeen, won the national quarter mile
test OF supremacy; Ernest Smith, OF San
Francisco. also seventeen, took title in the
Pacific Coast district spirits; Leo Handy
OF Boston. sixteen, captured three New
England championship; Robert Dippy'
Of Philadelphia. same age, scored III
the national quarter: Gilbert Tom
llnson, another Philadelphia, fifteen,
carried off every Middle Atlantic ute,
won the national half mile and was
placed second in the quarter and one
mile. travelling the latter distance siN
seconds under the record: Fred Cherry oil
Washington, same age, annexed the south
Atlantic 440-yard championship in new
district time; Eddie McCarron, OF kansas
City. fourteen. finished three feet oehlnd
the winner I'm the ten-nile state contest
and defeated ninety-nire opponents; DaYy
Jones. OF Memphis, anotheg fOurteen-year-
Old. took the measure AZ ten miles OF
Chauncey Heath, the former American
champion: Eddie Snyder. Of New York
thirteen swan the fifteen miles between
Coney Island and the Brooklyn Bridge IN
tho astonishing time Of hours 40 min
utes Francis Stephens, Of St LOUIS
twelve, carried off supreme honors at the
back stroke in the Western division ana
Florence Mclaughlin. tot OF nine, was
placed in a flyc-and- a-half-mile race for
women In Philadelphia. defeating eight oil
the best women swimmers in Pennsylva-
MIA. And these are but few OF the in
stances which might be cited.
The record breakers did yeoman's duty.
Arthur Raithel OF tho Illinois Athletic
Club, of Chicago, clipped from 10 SO sec
onds TO ~ seconds fat Danielss forty
yard standard. and also equalled the lat
ter's "a A. seconds worlds time for swim
ming 100 yards in a sixty-foot pool. His
laurels were soon taken from him, how
IL If IIar oil q
few weeks later covered the century In a
seventy flve-foot bath in o. 3-5 seconds.
And Kahanamoku was credited besides
with new worlds records at fifty and
seventy-hve yards. @ 20 seconds and 81 2-5
seconds. respectively, made in San Fran
cisco, as we'll as with the figures he Gre
ated in Honolulu harbor over l0O-yard
course, namely. fifty yards i'm "a seconds.
100 yards In % 1-5 seconds, go yards in
minutes "a 2-5 seconds and 40 yards in
minutes 81 As seconds. II is worthy OF
note that although the duke is generally
considered a product OF his native islands
e was not until he WAS coached by
George Kistler, the Philadelphia expert,
that he attained his great speed at dis
tances beyond the century.
Perry McGillIvray, OF the Illinois Ath-
Ietic Club. Tailed az 500 and $50 yards. The
record for the former course was held
by Daniels at S minutes q 2-5 seconds,
seventy-fve-foot bath, and the Chicsgoan
twice broke IL. showing minutes Is 3-5
seconds in a slXty-foot pool and min
utes 70 SIS seconds In a seventy-flve-foot
one: for the latter Daniels's mark of IL
minutes A 4-5 seconds obtained, thirty
FIVE turns. and McGillivray lowered II to
II minutes 20 10 seconds, forty-four turns.
Bud Goodwin, OF the New York Ath-
letic Club, contributed three records. In
the one-mile championship he negotiated
800 yards over eighty yard lanes in II
minutes II 2-5 seconds, 200 yards I'm Il
minutes 4 seconds, and touched out In %
minutes IS rs seconds, eclpsing his own
mile figures OF % minutes So 1-5 seconds.
In selecting the years leaders the
choice falls on the following men:
Sprints, Arthur Raithel and Duke Kahan-
amoku; middle distances. Perry McGilli-
vray; distances. Michael McDermott and
Bud Goodwin; back stroke. Harry Heb
ner; breast stroke. Michael McDermott;
fancy diving, Arthur McAleenan; plunge,
r. b. Reitman.