New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
VOLLMER ADDS
ANOTHER TITLE
TOLONG LIST
Captures the metropolitan
Half Championship AT
ter Hard Race.
WHEATLEY FIGHTS TO
THE LAST STROKE
Yields to Columbia Swimmer in
Final Sprint to the
Float.

Smashing with powerful strokes
through the wind-swept waters of
Travers Island Creek, HERBERT Nollmer,
of Columbia University and the New
York Athletic Club. won the halfmile
metropolitan A. A. :. swimming cham
pionship yesterday in II minutes 80 y
seconds. rafting good time under the
conditions.
He defeated his clubmate, Joseph
Whcatloy, by only a touch, after one
Of the hardest fought races seen this
season. john Curran, a fellow club
man and the only other starter, I'm
ished nearly one hundred yards be-
hind.
The trio took the water well to-
gctker. and Nollmer went to the front
slmost Immediately. At the end of the
first lap of the l1O-yard course he had
a lead Of a couple of yards. Wheatley
closed the Car on the way home, how
ever, so that the pair reached the fur
long post side by side IN minutes
Az seconds.
Vollmer again forged ahead after
the turn, and slowly improved his po-
siticn. touching the 440-yard mark in
6 minutes 8 seconds, with a ten-foot
advantage 1t looked then like an easy
victory for him.
But Whoatley was far from beaten.
Gradually raising his stroke. he began
TO work up, inch by inch. At $50 yards
he was only four feet behind; at no
yards his head bobbed at Nollmer's
shoulder.
Then both spirited. Down the last
lap they came, shoulder to shoulder,
arms thrashing fast. spray flying high.
II was others race for fifty yards, and
the crowd rose with shouts Of encour-
aCement 20 one or the other. But
Vollmer had a little bit more in re-
serve. and five yards from the line he
called upon il. leaping forward and
winning by an arms length.
A field Of nearly thirty ;printers re-
ported for the 100-yard handicap, and
four elimination heats were made nee
essary. In the final d. Jackson Have,
of the New York Athletic Club, with
an 1S-second handicap. defeated by a
narrow margin Fred Schierbaum, of the
West Side Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION. and Jerrold Smith, Of the
New York Athletic Club, who finished
second and third. respectively, only
inches apart. The time was l minute
1876 seconds.
The fancy diving contest, which con-
Guided the programme, was marred by
the clustering wind. The men lost
control in the air, and the perform
ences, as class, were poor. Joseph
Dunn, of the New York Athletic Club,
the national champion Of 1913. received
the decision. He scored no points, as
against TAT scored by Frank Mullen
and "a by F. A. Spongberg, both Mer-
curry Foot representatives.
The summaries follow:
lOO-yard swim Msnhlcap Won by y. Jackson
Have New York A e. as seconds Fred Schier-
baum West side Y. NJ G. A go seconds. second
Jerrod smith, New York A. c. IS seconds. third.
Tins lis Is
SS0-yard swim metropolitan A 4 L champion
slipI-Non by Herbert Nol'mer. New York A.. {.
Joseph Wheatley. Sew York A. G. second: John
Currsn. New York A. C.. third Tine IL 80 ] 5.
Fancy diving contest (haudi ap' Won by Joseph
Dunn New YORK 4. G.. Is points, with u 6
points Frank Mullen. Ncw York A c. az points
second. with al points. = Spongberg. New York
A e. 70 points. third with a points
Rcfercc-Edward Benson Ne% York A. c.