Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-15
BEST SWIMMERS
HVCOUNTRY ARE
DUEATR.P,L.E,
New York and Chicago Will
Send Water Speeders
to Fair
IBy Latest NALL

SAN FRANCISCO, Ca!--The swim
ming committee Of the Panama-Paci;ic
international Exposition has practical
ly completed plans for the events
which will be held under the exposi-
tons auspices. New events have been
added to the program and the sched-
ule now includes three championship
indoor meets and three days OF out,
door races. -. n s-.
The first meet was the annual Pa.
cific Athletic Association champion
ships at Sutro Baths, which was held
on Friday night. June = The big i'll
door meet In which the worlds pre-
mier mermen and mermaids will COM
plete will be the p. p. /. e. champion
ships on July 10 and II. The state
OF California championships viii be
held October 22. "
William +. Humphrey. the president
OF the exposition athletic committee,
received two kilograms announc-
ing the entries of the ILL
nois and New York athletic clubs
for the P. P.I. E. meet The Eastern
swimmers will arrive in San Fran
cisco on July Is. The Illinois Athletic
Club team will include several swim
mers who have appeared here before.
Mise Elsie Hurter Coming.
Harry Hebner, Perry McGillivray.
Michael MacDermott, William Vos-
burg and A. C. Raithel, the swimmer
who beat Duke Kahanamoku over 80
yards on July last, will represent
the Illinois Athletic Club.
Miss Elsie Hurter, who holds many
records for swimming in the East, will
make the trip. Miss Hurter is a pupil
OF William Bachrach, the Illinois Club
coach, and she viii appear in meets
and exhibitions in New York, Boston
and indianapolis before coming here.
Arthur McAleenan, the crack Yale
University tank athlete, George
Downs, Harold yoilmef, Joseph Wheat
ley and Budd Goodwin, will represent
the New York Athletic Club in the
big meet. McAleenan Is one OF the
best swimmers in the East and holds
a number Of records. Joseph Wheat
ley holds all of the important New
York interscholastic swimming rec
ords and Budd Goodwin is also a crack
high school performer.
Wokifeid at the Front.
Kcnrad Wohlfeld. the national div
ing champion, would not be able to
make the, trip for the Illinois Athletic
Club. Wohlfeld enlisted with the Ger
man army at the start Of the Europe
an war and is now at the front.
The outdoor events, all of which will
be held in the yacht harbor of the ex-
position, will be the annual champion
ships of the Amateur Athletic Union.
On the afternoon of July q the quar-
ter.mile championship will be contest
ed and on July % the haltmils race
viii be swum.s July Is will see the
swimmers in action in the long dis
lance championship for the A. A. U.
title.
The exact distances Of the race has
not as yet been decided, but the A.
A. u. rules say that the event must
be finished; not under an hour and not
over two hours and a half.
Diving Platform Building.
The board of works of the exposi-
ticn is constructing a diving platform
that will comply with the Al A. U.
rules The platform will be divided
IN two sections, one 16 feet high and
the ether q feet. Ihe championships
will be held on the afternoon of July
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Entry blanks for all of the exposi-
ton swimming events are now being
printed and will be issued the first OF
next week.