New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Bud Goodwin and Albert
Downes Holding Up
After Many Years
of Competition.

Vance Vieth, coach of aquatics at the
Los Angeles Athletic Club, predicts a
great future for Clifford Bowes, the
young fancy diver who was runner-up
in both the springboard and high div
ing championships at the recent water
carnival in San Francisco. He says, in
writing of the lads performances:
Clifford showed remarkably good
form, considering his youth and the
small amount of expert instruction he
has received. ne still lacks finish, but
that is merely question of time and
practice, seeing that he has quite un-
usual natural ability and grit to burn.
1t is my firm conviction that if he
works faithfully and has the proper
handling he will develop into a world
beater before very long"
Vieth is an excellent judge of mate
rial, and he is not given to idle state
ments, so we may expect to see his
promising pupil figure conspicuously in
the most important events of the
future.
Entry blanks have been issued for
the swimming meet to be held at New
Point Comfort Beach on August 20, in
connection with the annual Keansburg
carnival. The programme will consist
of four events for men and three for
women, all under sanction of the ANA
teur Athletic Union. The former are to
be handicap swims ut 100. 900 and 40
yards and fancy diving; the latter the
same list. with the furlong race elimi-
mated
Bud Goodwin and Joseph Wheatley,
of the New York Athletic Club, will
compete to-day in the yearly long dis
lance surf race at Ocean Park. one of
the summer resorts near Los Angeles,
Southern California.
Particular interest attaches to the
event, because it will bring together
over course l,nger than a mile
Goodwin and the California star, Ludy
LANCER. The latter did not start in the
3 ~ mile national championship. which
: Goodwin won. and speculation is rife
as TO how the two will compare in the
test OF endurance.
George Brecklebrede, Of the St.
Charles Athletic Club, St. Louis, the
eighteen year-old boy who recently
/ sprang surprise by winning the five
mile marathon or the western Rowing
/ Club in the Mississippi River, now
ranks among the favorite candidates
I for the national ten-mile title swim.
/ While the time he .aade hardly war
rants the belief that ne can defeat
McDermott, Laubis. Heath and other
likely entrants, critics contend that he
, could have gone much faster had he
been pressed. instead Of winning as he
! pleased by some 200 yards They think
he will prove il in the classic event.
The much advertised Chester-Phila-
delphia seventeen-mile marathon swim
for women may not materialize this
season. The promoters assert that the
Middle Atlantic authorities delayed &C
ito so long on the application for
sanction that they we're unable TO make
the necessary arrangements to hold the
race in midAugust. as per schedule.
Efforts are being made to have the
/ event run off later, but there seem TO
| be obstacles in the way, and it looks as
| If the swim would be abandoned alto
gether. Several of the leading mer-
maids, who have been training for sew
erals weeks in anticipation Of the race,
are indignant at those in charge for