New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-26

though he failed 70 land, owing 10 a.
breaking sea, he actually covered n,
whole distance. Henry Miron, Bo,,O,
youth Of eighteen, broke by sbog, LII
an hour the record for the Boss,
Light course, reducing IL 70 II hoa, u
minutes 80 seconds. Charles Tod. "a.
other Bostonisn, made the return D.,
over the same route IN Is hours II "A.
onds, and not only beat all prsvisu,
marks, but bettered the America. ne.
-ord OF IA hours Is minutes for .os.
.1inuous swimming. Robert poyllas. Of
Spring Lake, y. J., swan the thIr,y-
four miles around Manhattan lslui-
a feat never before secomplishsd-h
10 hours IS minutes.
In concluding the review Of nv
style swimming, mention needs b mad,
Of the 100-yard performance Of Hsrbsr.
Nollmer, In tho New York Athlstie Club
pool on December 1. lie was CLICKED
In 81 As seconds, faster tine By two
seconds than ever made By RslAsL
Hebner and McGillivray, the sps.dlsA
American sprinters, In the same ps6-
Laurels In breast-stroke swimmiS
were gsrnered by Michael NeDermett
Of the Illinois Athletic Club, who cut
his own national record for 100 y~rts
20 I minute 10 2-5 seconds, atun
bath, and his 200-yard mark, same con.
ditions, to 2 minutes SO 2-6 seconds
The championship In the plunge 10
distance was captured by J. Hurtis IL
Cincinnati, but the years best nirt
7S feet, went TO tho credit Of Cnit
Redmond, Of Chicago University.
Arthur McAleenan. IT,, Of the Nv
York Athletic Club. proved the men
skilled fancy diver In springtosN
work, and his team mate, Albsn
Downes, demonstrated his supremacy d
high diving.
Both soccer and college water NJ.
gained popularity and made many N
crAtA In the former game the llincii
Athletic Club team captured The t.u
in the latter Princeton University soi
its fourth consecutive ehsmpionshin
In all around aqustics the Ilinok
Athletic Club scored the most point
indoors, the New York Athlete clsS
outdoors, In open national eompstinos
while the fight among the colleges ~
suited in a triple tie between Cols-
bia, Yale and Pennsylvania, and in,sn
scholastic honors were easily sapturN
by the Brooklins High School, Of Boz
ton.
OF the fair swimmers who seh,rx
fame in 1918 the foremost wers N!a
Olga Dorfner, Of the Philadelphis Tan
gemeinde, and the Misses Lucy FRYE
man and Claire Galllgan, Of Tie Ne
tional Women's Lifesaving Lesgus, No
York branch.
Miss Dorfner sprintsd 80 y,rts b
80 20 seconds, 100 yards strsl ghtaviy
In minute 9 3-5 seconds and go yrtj
NV yards open water courss) Ia
minutes is rs seconds. The frs, nan
is worlds record, the second al
third being national standard, u1
close 70 world figures, when eonditiNi
are considered.
Miss Freeman ga 44o yards n
minutes II seconds, $50 yards II y
minutes as seconds and one mile %
80 minutes 81 seconds, all new Amer
lean records. The former wes made
In an so-yard bath, the latter I'VE vrss
a ll0-yard stretch. across current
1850 Univ 1dAaA Oh
demonstrated her superiority at tr
tances greater than one mile BY mnl!
defeating Miss Freeman, the record
holder, in q two-mils race Her ans
only missed standard brackets oseaan
the course was not officially suryeS
Il is worthy Of note that before he.s
three stars stepped into the limeignt
IN midsummer. Mss Dorothy Bsekd
had broken the ffty-ysrd worlds reg
ord In Honolulu, Miss Frances CoVs.i
had lowered the national l00-ysrd 81.
220-yard figures and Miss Msrgushn
Brack had bettered the i4o-ysfd nn-
This speedy trio halls from San FF'''
cisco. i.
The best girl fancy divers tld ."
meet and the question % lesdershiS ~
manned unsettled, but Ms, Jossphiai,
Bartlett, Of New York. has been pish..
as the Eastern champion ard ~"
Dorothy Becker ss the Western. 1.
Team honors for the year may ?.
awarded 20 the Philadelphia w.
gemeinde IN swimming and 70 ne -
tionsl Women's Lifesaying Leas''