New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-18
After Mark Set by George
Meehan in The Trib-
une Swim Last
Year.
BY l.. DE B. HANDLEY.

George E. Esselborn, of this city, is
ambitious. On next Sunday he will try
to shatter the Battery to Sandy Hook
record of 7 hours Is minutes, estab-
lished last July by George B. Meehan,
of Boston, in the Tribune Marathon
swim.
Those who have followed Esselborn's
work in practice feel no doubt of his
ability to better the existing mark,
provided conditions are favorable, for
he covered seventeen miles in hours
40 minutes, against Meehan, and has
greatly improved his stroke since.
J. p Mantell, of the West Side
Young Mems Christian Association, Es-
selborn's amateur coach, has taught
him a fast trudgeOn crawl and he cX-
poets to see the course time lowered
by about half an hour
J. p. Stoner, of Philadelphia. an
other of the contestants in last years
Tribune race, has been invited to the
trial, and it is likely he will be on
hand, for he recently signiied his in
tention of attacking Meehan's figures
at the first opportunity, and he has
been training for the purpose.
The national outdoor aquatic cham
pionships of the Amateur Athletic
Union will be decided this week in the
Yacht Harbor. San Francisco, and the
fact that every event on the programme
has several candidates ranking as equal
favorites, indicates clearly what keen
competition is anticipated.
The Coast fans pick Ludy LANCER, Of
the Los Angeles Athletic Club, to win
the quarter, half, one mile and two and
a half mile swms. Chicago looks upon
Harry Hebner, Of the Illinois Athletic
Club, as invincible at 440 yards, and
favors the chances of his teammates,
Perry McGilliyray and Michael Nc
Dermott, in the other events. New
Workers believe Joseph Wheatley, Of
the Mercury Foot squad, is as fast as
any man up to one mile, and consider
Bud Goodwin the logical choice for the
long distance race.
ST. Louis critics express confidence
that Herman Laubis, of the Missouri
Athletic Club. will figure in all the con-
tests and win at two and half miles.
The Hawaiian authorities predict at
Duke Kahanamoku, of Honolulu, will
capture the 440-yard championship and
possibly score in the half-mile also.
The wish is father TO the thought, of
course, and a feeling of partisanship
may have helped TO influence the vari-
Gus selections. In looking over recent
performances, however the conviction
comes that one is just as warranted as
the other, for there is not sufficient
difference between the times TO denote
conclusive superiority on the part Of
any one of the mentioned entrants.
Miss +. Billabarrow, OF st. Louis,
newcomer in the competitive field. v
cred fifty yards, straightaway, last
week in 0:34 at an open outdoor meet,
and the mark is claimed as an Amcri
can record for women.
The claim will hardly stand il Miss
Lucille Legros's time Of 0:82 2-5 in
Honolulu is offered for recognition.
Still, there is no doubt that the young
mermaid has remarkable speed and de
serves 70 be classed among the leading
women sprinters Of the country.
Samuel Richards, of Boston, and
Henry +. Sullivan, of Lowell, will err
gage on August p in the longest swim
mining contest ever held They pro-
pose to start from Nantasket Beach
and try to reach Race Point Light. on
Cape Cod, a distance OF about forty
miles.
Richards thinks that it should take