New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-27
Candidates to Compete fol-
Honor of Representing
East at Panama-Pa-
cihc Exposition.

Sprint swimmers of the eastern dis
tricts of the Amateur Athletic Union
will have an opportunity on Wednes-
day to bid for the honor of being sent
to the Panama-Pacifc Exposition water
carnival next month. The national
championship authorities have arranged
to hold l00-yard trial in the pool Of
tn New York Athletic Club and entries
are open to all registered amateurs.
The committee in charge wishes IT
distinctly understood, however, that
victory in the race will not necessarily
entitle the winner TO the San Francisco
trip. The sumber of candidates TO be
selected is limited to four and the men
likeliest TO figure in the exposition
events will be chosen. That is, If the
middle and long distance tests, coming
off at Rye, indicate comparatice SUI
periority on the part of the 440-yarders
and milers, they will have the prefer
ence over the sprinters. Ability to
score al the big meet, not here, will be
the deciding factor.
Thirteen senior and FIVE junior aquatic
titles Of the Central Amateur Athletic
Union will be competed for on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday of this week
at Indianapolis, and the largest entry
list in history has been received for
the meet. All the contests vii, be de-
cided in the Broad Ripple Park basin.
where a surveyed llO-yard course has
been laid out.
The Illinois Athletic Club, of Chi
cago, will be represented by its full
team, which includes Hebner, McGilliv-
ray, Raithel, McDermott and Vosburgh,
every one a national title or record
holder.
Fair natators will also have a chance
TO display their skill and speed at the
carnival, for six open swimming and
diving championships for women are
on the programme.
The latest worlds records created by
Duke Kahanamoku, in Honolulu-23
seconds for fifty yards and SO seconds
for one hundred yards-call attention
once more to the type Of stroke which
has enabled him to attain such amaz-
ing speed.
The South Sea islander uses the six
beat crawl, which American experts
have for some time considered the
best, as affording perfect rhythm and
absolute balance of leg effort and pro-
pulsion.
This stroke calls for the usual alter
nate arm drive and continuous thrash
of the feet, so timed that the down
ward movements of the legs mark
right-left-right with the pull Of the
left arm and left-right-left with the
pull of the right arm, giving six leg
drives 10 two arm ones per full stroke.
The first important local swimming
meet for women will take place on July
10 at Manhattan Beach, under the su
peryision of the Women's National
Lifesaving League. The rules of the
Amateur Athletic Union will govern,
and only registered amateur mermaids
will be allowed to take part.
Joseph Wheatley, of the New York
Athletic Club, is again swimming with
record speed. lie suffered a heavy
slump last winter, and for a while his
performances were away below par,
but the rest he enjoyed after the clos
ing of the indoor season evidently
proved just what he needed. In recent
time trials he has covered several of
the regulation middle distances under
standard figures.
Philadelphia is once more in the
limelight as the producer OF aquatic
infant prodigies We have been hear
ing a good deal of late about Florence
Mclaughlin and Helen Rubican, the
eleven-year-old wonders, yet the adj
vent of Beatrice Whitelawn in the
swimming field eclipses the latters