New-York tribune., 1915-09-19
Records Set by Women
Swimmers Sure to Stand

made in a pool. under ideal conditions.
while the Quaker City girl swan IN open
and rough water. battling a current
which cut the course at right angles.
These differences might easily account
for the slight margin IN result.
Miss Freeman's one mile record OF
35 minutes IS seconds would appear
quite outclassed by the International
mark Of % minutes 81 2-5 seconds TO
the credit Of Miss Vera Neave, of Eng
land, were it not for the manner III
which il was created. The sixteen
year-old Bath Beach girl was so far
ahead of her rivals after covering two
laps of the 1l0-yard course that she
stopped at every turn to exchange
pleasantries with friends and officials.
; lso. the side current swept her IN VIDE
circles. so that eye-witnesses estimate
she swan some two hundred yards
more than one mile-a matter of four
minutes, at least.
One is hardly warranted in claiming
international supremacy for Miss Free
man, but her youth, grit, ability and
stamina make probable her rise TO
worlds Leadership in the future.
The performance Of Charles 10th, Of
Boston, in swimming from Charlestown
Bridge to Boston Light and back stands
out as the most brilliant OF the season.
Famous watermen have often failed in
the attempt to cover the course even
one way. and the return trip is by long
odds the hardest. IL took 10th five
hours and thirty-three minutes TO reach
the light, and he fought gamely for
ten hours fourteen minutes before com
pleting the homeward journey. His
total .ir,a IN bonra At Minutes marks
the longest period of continuous swim
ming ever chronicled in this country.
The most remarkable feature of the
Boston mans great swimming Is his
late start in the long distance game.
He is thirty-fve years old, and until
this summer never tried marathon
courses. For a novice he has not done
badly.
Swimming, however, does not seem
to have the usual age limitations. Bud
Goodwin, Of the New Yois Athletic
Club. winner This season Of the metro
politan and national distance cham
pionships. has enjoyed twenty-one
years OF successful competition. and
his teammste, DR.. W. d. Hennen, who
finished second in the fve-mile Pawling
cup race, breaking the course record,
swan TO his first victory in 1895.
BY capturing the national ten-mile
swimming title, in the Mississippi
River, Herman Laubis, of the Missouri
Athletic Association, obtained a second
leg on the $1,000 trophy offered by s..
Louis watermen for three victories in
the championship contest. He is now
tied with Michael McDermott, Of the
Illinois Athletic Club, of Chicago, who
also has taken the event twice. Both
are confident of obtaining absolute pos
session of the handsome cup next year.
The fve-mile marathon swim for
women, held annually by the Brighton
Beach Bath, will be run off Wednes-
day afternoon at $3.50 o'clock over the
usual Rockaway Point to Brighton
Beach route; but, instead Of being con-
fined 70 members Of the National Wom-
ems Lifesaving League, as in the past,
Il Will be open % amateur girl swim
mers throughout the country.
The promoters are anxious 10 give
the race championship rank, and they
have offered inducements 70 the lead
ing mermaids of Philadelphia, Boston
and Pittsburgh. Several have signifed
their intention Of starting.
Among the local stars likely to start
are the Misses Lucy Freeman, Martha
Hagstadt. Elsie Sultan, Dora Hyatt.
Rita Greenfield and Helen Peitler.'
Paul Kaiser, of the Reading Athletic
Club, begins to look like a probable
factor in future swimming champion
ships at one mile and upward He has
met and defeated good men in fast
time this season, and he is showing
consistent and rapid improvement