New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-24
AQUATIC LAURELS
TO MISS COLDINC
Battles Against Wind and
Wave TO Win Swim to
COney Island.
ALMOST EQUALS BUD
GOODWIN'S RECORD
Miss DebuS a Game Second
Rose pitOnoff Drops Out
Of the Race.

Elaine Go'dIng. Of Bath s...t
proved chat she has no peer in loay.
distance winning. ~ least in n.
Eastern District. by winning the Coney
Island race for women .r record lin.
and IffIrg tho Milo Trophy. donated
by tHe Milo Cigarette Company, yes.
torday
Battling most % tre way against
.tF breeze that drove Wh,te-espp.5
waves and spray whipping hesd-on a,
nor. she covered the fourteen.nils
course from Tho Battery 20 Stesvs.
chase Per IN hours 81 minutes Is
seconds. This time beats b. about on.
hour the best previous performing,
made Dr. a member Of The sex, and !,
dangerou near the amateur stand.
ard % { hours 30 minutes, established
by Bud Goodwin, Of the New YORK
Athletic Club. couple Of gears ago.
Louise Debus, Of Philadelphia, va,
second. in ( hours 81 minutes 80 sec.
onds.
Only four starters reported for the
race. but the field made up IN quality
what IL lacked DO quantity. Rose Pit
onof. the New England champion, rep
resented Boston; Louise Debus. hole.
or Of a number Of Marathon records in
Pennsylvania. toed the mark for Phil
adelphia. and New York sent 70 the
line Elaine Golding, who mas held
titles in this district for several years,
and Nora Leahy. whose feats Of en-.
durance have Of late attracted a good
deal Of attention.
The start was made from the Bsrg.
Office a. 1921 a. ~. All four Of the
girls fell into a fast trudgeon on stris.
ing the water and sprlnted, Nora
Leahy securing the lead. Then they
settled down 20 their work.
Crossing the Battery 20 Goyernors
Island Miss Leahy gradually pulled
away from the others, and when she
rounded into Buttermilk Channel a.
10:43:3O she led Miss Goiding By
thirty yards and the other two, then
close together, By about 200 more.
soon after. however. she began 70
experience trouble, and repeatedly
changed stroke, using the breast stroke
10 rest. Her Bath Beach rival instes!
held % a machine-like trudgeoa
throughout, and steadily drew up, in.
ally taking the van. On passing the
Statue of Liberty Miss Golding vas
forty yards in front Of the New YORK
girl The others still trailed
The water was getting very rough By
then. and il bothered Miss Pitonof,
who. swimming the breast stroke, with
head high. got the full lash OF the seed
In the ewes. Both she and Miss Leshy
fell further and further back. When
Elaiue Golding drew abreast Of the
Crescent Athletic Club. having covered
about half the distance 20 Coney Island
m > hours % minutes II seconds, Miss
Dobus had worked into second place.
but was nearly quarter OF mile be-
bind
When Miss PitonoF reached that
point she was nearly blind from the
lash Of briny spray and decided 70
abandon the contest. She had been
in the water hours 80 minutes.
Miss Leahy continued gamely for
a while, although her pilot chose bad
course. out OF the favoring tide and
lost her a deal Of ground but, after
weathering Fort Hamilton she TOO,
signalled 20 her roVboat and gave up
the fight, having swum continuously
for about hours.
Only two were left. and Miss De-
bus. VINO is a young girl Of seventeen,
made a brave effort 20 catch her ses.
soned opponent, raising the speed OF
her crawl stroke. but Miss Golding'
boring through the waves like suo-
marine, her clean trudgeon carrying
her along without splash or furry, was
not 20 be caught.
At Norton's Point the elapsed tine
for the leader was 3 hours 80 minutes
The Philadelphia girl had dropped her
stroke again and seemed 70 be satlsnea
with just following.
The last part OF the journey was
made through such heavy sea that
it hardly seemed possible the piloting
rowboats would i've through It, yer
neither Of the plucky girls seemed 70
mind il. To the very end Mss Geld
ing stuck 10 the trudgeon and MIS-
Debus TO the crawl. Both nnlsnee
fresh and strong
Il was an especially good perform.
ance of the Bath Beach veteran, Du'
almost as worthy was the work o. tne
young Philadelphia girl, who hnlsnSse
about fifteen minutes later herself
smashing to pieces the course record
The summary follows:
ELAPSED
finish tine