The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-07-20
Four Out at 30 Entrants In
Battery To Sandy Hook
Race Cover Distance
Winner s Time Four
Hours, is Minutes
six Hours Faster Than Time
of First Man To Succeed
Second and Third Close

|. New York, July I9.-Four entrants.
Nhree from Boston and one from
Philadelphia, from a field of thirty
!. starters. reached Sandy Hook today
In the first competitive marathon
twin ever held over the course
Scores of swimmers have attempted
the feat within the last forty years
TIP to today two were able TO make
The distance from the Battery 10 the
Jersey outpost, George r. Meehan,
! twenty-three years old. the winner,
SWAN the distance an hour faster than
the amateur record, and six hours
faster than the professional time made
81 Commodore AL Brown, Of the
American Life Saving society, the first
man 10 succeed.
The swim is most Eruelling, covering
In it's zig gag fashion close to twenty
i've miles, although as a crow files
III Is eighteen and one-half miles. IT a
ccmpetent oarsman were to row a
okfm with sue b speed he would he well
nigh exhausted when be reached his
destination. The feat Is remarkable
and without parallel
The conditions were favorable to the
Ewirnmers q strong wind that whipped
|the waves into white caps blowing
them In towards the Hook against 4
hide in the last mile Of the struggle.
1sut all the aid nature could produce
rarrGf Hetr3cf from the stA&SeFAAA
reality Of the sta NINA shown by the
competitors.
Near Dead Heat for SECOND.
Samuel Richards. whose record
mr. dc last year was enshrouded IN a
Es4 OF doubt. because he claimed Ia
have reached his goal q ore tide.
cindicated himself toda" by finishing
Facond "a his colleague from the city
BIZ cultures Although an hour be-
4 h.. SxskNe shH rTz yfusfA3 las
way through the last 81 the titanic
toiIers in splendid condition.
Nit .st-sn VAT II DC MINI nm was
Matter Damn another Bostenian The
pfHc.ai were almost sta ggered by the
possibility ~ q dead heat for second
bsaee. richards won because the point
IN the beach where he landed pro-
ected OH; tribe further than THAI
ehere Damn reached land
Experts said for wears that the swim
oaid never be accomplished on one
.de. because no rnsn created could
vim fast enough Ia get down there
before the current turned back to-
yard New York. As the tide runs
CUR miles an hour and a man can
win bit three miles an hour. Il DID
nnk Impossible. This group accom-
|lished the impossible. II the ms1he-
nattcs Of the experts IL 10 be credited
The swimmers were not all young
hen There was little Eddie Snyder
rho processes 10 thirteen years OF age,
nd Fred III James, writer of fnuT.
sg picture scenarios who denies hs
over fifty. James fooled old Father
lme for twenty miles. He learned IL
vim ten years ago, and today was his
rst trial at the long distance classic
e was TN second place. mile from
AZ goal OF his ambition. when blind
ess caused by the spiashing OF the
III. water in his eyes robbed him 81
be glory that rightly belongs with
lch rare courage.
Oficials Seasick.
While seasickness overlook two
hirds Of the officials on the tivt
lunches en- route 10 the Hook. some
hing equally dread to swimmers
Rshed the hopes OF many of the
respective ones. That was era rnps
less than ter Of the starters were
reed to withdraw because of muscle
bntraction. Raymond ]. Boyle, OF
ttsburg. one of the favorites. was
aiding for seven miles when he was
Iected with cramps in the calves Of
3 legs He swan for three miles
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