New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-02
Columbia Looking Forward
to Successful Aquatic Sea-
son Next Year-Team
Remains Intact.
BY l.. DE b. HANDLEY.

northwestern University ueledtSN
Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin and Min
nesota in the annual conference swim
ming carnival, thereby capturing the
championship college title in the Mid
die West.
The victory of the Evanston boys
came as surprise, and was due to
whole team rather than to unusual
Illinois was confidently expected to
formers who were chiefly counted upon
studies and could not be used, Grip
ping the squad beyond hope.
A feature of the season was A. r
Macdonald's defeat of LIGHTER and
Hurtig, in the Central district plung-
ing championship. LIGHTER is credited
with covering co feet in Fl 80 sec
onds, the fastest time on record, and
Hurtig is the present holder of the
national crown. Macdonald wore the
color Of Illinois University in the con.
test.
The watermen of Columbia are look
ing forward eagerly to next season, for
this years successful team will remain
practically intact and new additions
promise to increase its efficiency Her
bert Vollmer, the champion and rec
ord holder, will again be available, and
so will the swimmers Lee, Walker
Davidow, Ferris and Cochranc; the
plungers Levi and Noble, the fancy
divers Fowler and Burghardt and the
water polo players Mouquin, Gibson
underwater, Cooper, Noble and Levin
son.
Then the sprinting forces will be
bolstered up by Philip Herbert and A
Fisher, two rafting good fifty-yarders
and the diving staff will find worthy
recruits in Mills and Firth, so that
the only event lacking candidates OF
the first water will be the plunge for
distance.
Fannie Durack, of Australia, has en-.
tered the big water carnival to be held
in Honolulu next June, and after that
will sail for San Francisco TO spend q
month or so in this country. Her chief
object is to compete in the swimm ing
races for women at the Panama-Pacitic
Exposition, but she intends also to visit
other cities and meet the best of our
fair natators. II will be interesting to
watch results.
Remarkably fast times have been
credited of late to the home mermaids
and they will have an opportunity to
thoroughly test their skill against the
Australian girl. for Miss Durack is re-
puted 20 be the foremost all round
swimmer of her sex. She took the
lions share of the laurels at the Olym-
pic games of 1912, and she has since
upset number of worlds records.
Her most recent feat was 10 lower
the international 100-metre (lO9.3
yards) figures to l minute Is 1-5 sec
onds. The old mark, held By herself
was 2 3-5 seconds slower.
Report has it that Max Ritter, the
former City Athletic Club star, is about
TO join the Mercury Foot swimming
team. II this proves the case, the local
club will gain q valuable recruit. Rit'
ter Is not only a crack middle distance
paddler, but strong player of soccer
water polo. Before coming to the
United States he represented Germany
in international matches, and both his
personal ability and his technical
knowledge of the game should be OF
material help to the New York Athletic
Club squad.
The annual swimming campaign OF
the Boston Young Mems Christian
Association, consisting OF a week Of