The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-09
ATHLETIC CLUB
 OPENING SUCCESS Club Completely Remodeled. Swimming Exhibition
 Great

The twelfth annual opening of the Bir-
 mingham Athletic club. which took place
 at the club quarters last night. was one
 of the most brilliant affairs that organiza- l tion has given in years. The board of governors and the entertainment and re- ception committee and the other commit
 tees. specially appointed forlthis occasion, together with the officers of the club. 1 spared neither time or effort to make 1 this opening one of genuine pleasure
 and comfort for all the members and | their many friends.
 | The board of governors composed of
 E. L. Anderson. president: Harold Me
 Dermott, vice president: J. D. Beavin. secretary; pr. J. E. Dedman. Guy Whar- ton, c. w. Streit, Jr., M. M. Baldwin, J. H. Taylor, Wiley Afford and Charles w. Woodruff have been untiring and
 most painstaking in their purpose to
 make the event a feature of the seasons
 work.
 l Every department of the club building
 was touched up with both soap and
 paint until it now sparlSles like new. Secretary Beavin has had large force of men and women on the job for many
 days and the building was in the
 very best physical condition. The locker rooms have been given several coats of white paint and are now spotlessly clean. The lobby walls and ceilings have
 been retouched. The offices have new
 paper on the walls The floors and stair ways have been oiled and polished, the | furniture reupholstered and vanished.
 The reading and writing room has been l thoroughly overhauled. Light fixtures
 and chandeliers have been cleaned and repaired. The gymnasium proper, Is now
 ready for the fall and winter classes
 and the apparatus carefully repaired ard put into place.
 1 The following men composed the eh- | tertainment committed: T. F.. French,
 R. H. O'Hara, Tom Panky, Lester shan
 nan, I. G. Hood, w. T. Underwood. Jr., l John Underwood. C. w Rush. T. S
 Darna'l, s. E. Hope, Percey Brewer.
 J. l.. La Pointe, pr. H. P. Hanna. Clark | Williams. C. c. Holcombe, Tom Jones, H. l.. Cobb, F. T. Byrd. Billy Cobos, Ed | Spencer, W. P. Randall and Physical Di- | rector Alpha Brumage. Not only has I this committee worked hard as a whole 1 to make this occasion the best of all. but each man has taken it upon himself | personally to see that things will be done just right
 l Chairman Tom Panky of the dancing I committee had a good dancing pro
 gramme. He had several features which he put on.
 l Special music was provided for the evening and concert was given in the
 lobby. beginning promptly at 8 o'clock. preceding the other events df the even l he put on which made hit.
 l The board of governors together with l the entertainment committed. made up the reception committee.
 | A folder showing a programme for the l classes, for the seasons work, was dis I tributed. The work was announced in detail by this means.
 The following is the detailed programme of the swimming exhibitions:
 | 1. Entrance. len masse.' Participation | in free diving and swimming by the en- tire squad: Paul Green H. Cobb, B. Cobb,
 Dick Knodle, Donald Murdock. E. Levy.
 Elmer Heinz Fred Thornburgh E. Cobb. | Briscoe Seals, Walter Murdock. w. r. Enneking, Gus Shackelford. Tom Me tGoWan.
 ! 2. Swimming. Illustrating different styles, strokes and methods of swim- | ming: English over-arm, Dick Knod1e; trudgeon stroke, Briscoe Seals; side I stroke, w. Murdock; back swim. Billy | Cobb; Australian crawl. Dick Knodle; crawl stroke, H. Cobb: overhead. side, 1 with scissors. Elmer Heinz; breast stroke, 1 w. F. Enneking overarm Briscoe Seals; | sailor stroke, Tom McGowan; English overhead w. Murdock; breast stroke, E.
 Cobb; Australian crawl. Paul Green; | breast stroke. H. Cobb; trudgeon stroke, | Levy; crawl stroke. Briscoe Seals; Eng | fish overarm, B. Cobb; trudgeon stroke, | E. Cobb; English overarm, H. Cobb l 3. Diving from springboard and sides of pool, fiips and pyramid diving; jack | lrpiC Cobb: corkscrew twister. Briscoe Seals swan dive, W. F. Enneking: roll-over Dick Knodle: hand-stand dive. Fred Thornburgh; swan dive, W. Murdock; double somersault. B. Cobb; double som ersault, H. Cobb; swan dive. E. Cobb
 backward dive, Briscoe Seals; jack-knife
 w. Murdock; hand-stand, Dick Knodle twister, H. Cobb; back flip. Fred Thorn 1burgh; handstand-pull dive Elmer Heinz; ljack-knfe, Tommy McGowan; jack-knife, l E. Cobb; corkscrew, Levy; corkscrew l twister Dick Knodle; one and a half turn Briscoe Seals; one and a half turn
 Fred Thornburgh; one and half turn, F. Heinz.
 Pyramid dives: Heinz, L. Levy. H. Cobb. E. Cobb, Briscoe Seals, B. Cobb, Knodle. Paul Green, McGowan, Thornburgh w.. EF. Enneking Gus Shackelford, D. Mur- dock, w. Murdock.
 | 4 High diving from platform: straight | Cobb w. Murdock. Dick Knodle; hand
 stand Elmer Heinz; back statue, H. Cobb; back jack-knife. L. Levy and El-
 mer Heinz front jack-knife. w. Mur- dock; back somersault, H. Cobb; front | flip, l.. Levy; forward gano. H. Cobb: I back somersault, Elmer Heinz, back jack-knife, H. Cobb: front gano. B. Cobb. 5. Water carnival: Underwater swim. w.
 Murdock; swim hands and feet tied, Gus
 iShaclSelford; plunge, Briscoe Seals; un- l derwater swim, Thornburg; style. stroke | and speed for long distance swim, Paul Green; plunge. Walter Murdock; carry | ing persons Heinz. H. Cobb, L.. Levy. B. Cobb, Walter Murdock. Briscoe Seals and Dick Knodle Combination topsy-turvy | dives and Alps, H. Cobb and E. Heinz.
 Speed swimming. Briscoe Seals, Gus | ShackeIford and Walter Murdock. | 6. Relay race: Each swimmer to end of
 pool and return: Seals, Green. McGowan, | D. Cobb, Shackelford D. Murdock and
 B. Cobb vs. Knodle. Thornburg Enneking.
 Levy, H. Cobb, Walter Murdock and El- mer Heinz