New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
No Lack of Good Material
This Year-Columbia
Watermen to Make
Bow on Friday.
By /. DE =. HANDLEl.


The selection of an All-Amerca
aquatic team for 1914 presents some
difficulty. owing to the number OF
closely matched candidates for every
contest on the regulation list and 70
conflicting results in several OF last
years most important contests.
At fifty yards, for instance. Barrett
Small, Of the Olympic Club, San Fran
cisco. would appear the logical choice
on account Of the worlds record OF
233-5 seconds which he created IN
Honolulu. vet his work was so erratlc
and his average performances so much
slower that one feels the necessity Of
discarding him in favor Of Arthur
Raithol, of the Illinois Athletic Club,
of Chicago, who not only defeated
Small and Kanahamoku the only time
they met at the distance, but captured
also the national title and showed
enviable consistency in all his races.
The 10O-yard post may be awarded
without hesitation TO Duke Kahana-
moku. of the Los Angeles Athletic Club,
for. besides establishing a new in
ternational mark OF 81 So seconds
straightaway, he took the measure OF
the best Chicago sprinters IN San Fran
cisco: but at the furlong we find three
men with about equal claims, all three
having furnished world figures under
different conditions-Harry Hebner and
Perry McGillivray, of the Illinois Atm
letic Club, and Kahanamoku. The fact,
however. that Hebner defeated McGll-
jvrav more than once and by wider
margins than ever did the Duke, as
we'll as his wonderful faculty of bet
tering his own fastest times whenever
the occasion demands, seems to war
rant his choice.
The quarter and half mile swims
could safely be Intrusted 70 Ludy
LANCER. Of the Los Angeles Athletic
Club. since none approached ms rec
Crds at either distance, and the one,
mile event belongs by right 10 qua
Goodwin. Of the New YORK Athletics'
who holds both national championship
and standard, and has not been beaten
in the last few years.
In long distance swimming Herman
Iaubis. of the Missouri Athletic Club,
Of st. Louis. deserves 10 be picked TOT
the classic ten-mile course, as he won
the national event against all Corners
and at distances beyond George Nee
han. of the Brookline Swimming Club'
of Boston, easily takes precedence
through his victory by over one hour
in the twenty-two-mile Tribune Mara
thon swim to Sandy Hook.
For swimming on back Hebner mas
absolutely no rival; for breast stroke
racing his teammate, Michael McDer-
mott. ranks ahead of any one, ana lor
plunging A. Wales, Of the Brookilne
High school, Boston, is the leader.
Among the divers Conrad Wohlleld,
of the Illinois Athletic CLUB, eNhlDileu
the best form indoors, from the lO.looI
springboard. and Albert DoWnes, OF the
New York Athletic Club, the most per-
fect work outdoors from the high tower.
True. Wohlfeld was given the decision
over Downes i'm the national hlgh DIV
ing event. but such impartial and eN-
mort Judges as BOrnamann and Gald-
lick stated publicly that the verdict
was due 20 incompetent oinciais' anu
That the Mercury FOoter really won oy
at least ten points.
FoIlowing. therefore, is the makeup
/ oF the All-America team: 30 yards
Arthur Rajthel; 100 yards, Duke ha-
banamoku; 22O yards, Harry HeDner;
/ a4o and $50 yards, Ludy LANCER; one
mile. Bud Goodwin; ten miles, her-
man Laubis; longer distances HeoIse
/ Weehan: back stroke, Harry heonet'
| breast stroke, Michael McDeTmitti
,innqe. A Wales; springboard diving
| Conrad Wohlfeld, and high diving Al
bert Downes.
The swimming and water polo teams
90 CoInmbia will make their eompeu-
/ i've how on Friday. against the City
/ College watermen. and considerable IN
80, attaches 10 the meet, for the
4 Observation-Disclosures are thought to have a
/ sl.bt;ro chance at both the lntercol-
isIie.a remnants. As the City College
49, have already faced Yale, ana
! pyynceton. Fridays results should give
! sairi, Good idea Of how the Blue and
White squad compares with the league
| leaders.
The recently formed association OF
I p;,.shurgh swimming instructors is
aans;dcring the adoption OF new meth
az 20 improve conditions IN the dis
,rict and bring about more RAPID prog
roSs among the racing men. Although
B pittsburgh probably mas turned ou'
/ r,ore swimmers than any city IN the
| United States during the last thIee
naars none has 80 far attained cham
11ionsbin calibre, and the INSTRUCTORS
/ feel The need Of some change
Frank Sullivan, the Princeton coaen
81. s1,,i,nn,ing. states confidently hat
/ H. Tiger water polo team viii this
- he so per cent stronger than the
/ yySar,nion sextet Of 1914, and that Bob
/ Nourse the new centre forward, IS as
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