New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-13
BRO0KLINE BOY
SENDS SWIMMING
MARKS TUMBLING
Leo Handy Gives Amazing
Exhibition at Princeton
InterSChOlaStiC Meet.

Princeton. y. j.. Feb. r. Leo A.
Handy. Of the Brookline High School.
broke all kinds OF swimming record
IN the annual Princeton intcrscholastc
meet here this afternoon. Handy in
the meantime ran UP enough points 20
enable the Brookine High School 20
carry of the team trophy by vide
margin.
The Boston schoolboys made a total
OF twenty-seven points. While their
nearest competitors were Poly Prep, OF
Brooklyn, with ten points. and Law
renceville. with nine points. Nine other
schools divided the remaining points
among them. Brookline ran away with
the relay race, coming out IN front OF
field Of nine entries
Princeton records we're bettered IN
number Of events. but Leo Handy was
the single shining star OF the meet
Handy first astonshed the crowd by
swimming the l00-yard distance m
80 is seconds. which not only lowered
the interscholastic record but broke
the intercollegiate mark Of ~ seconds
fiat. made recently by Nollmer. Of Co
lumbia Handy had already done 81 p
about a week ago at Yale.
The Massachusetts, marvel hardly had
time to regain his wind when he
jumped back into the water and broke
another record. This time it was the
220-yard event. and Handy's time Of
2:2g 3-5 surpassed all lnterscholastic
and intercollegiate figures. The inter
collegiate record is 2:3l fiat. made by
Cross, of Princeton, couple OF years
ago. Handy also swan on the winning
relay team, which did the 200 yards IN
almost record time.
T. H. Cam. Of Hamilton Institute.
was IIandy's closest competitor IN the
220-yard race. and trailed him all the
way. Cams SIN competition un-
doubtedly pushed Handy 70 the utmost
and made il possible for him 70 make
such a remarkable showing. Cam won
the 50-yard race in 0:26 fiat
The possibility 90 breaking existing
records in the plunge was lost on ac-
count Of the length Of the pool. Brokaw
Tank Is only seyenty-five feet long.
and Bird. Of Brookline. travelled the
seventv-fve fee, in 0:j2. He would
certainly have excelled the record of
scyenty-eight feet IN the next eight
seconds. a. he had plenty OF headway
when ne reached the end.
The summary follows:
s9.ysrd dash Won by cam Hamilton Institute
second Pfsr4ergast. Hrr'siire High. ri-u. C.
shields. ro5 Prey. fourth. Rogers Poly Prep
Tim, o 90
Purse Won hy Blri. B-0okiiae High. second
Carroll Al Haiiovs Institute. fhird. K'mmey. Pof
Prep fourth TlleI. West Philadelphia Hisl
Distance IS ,ect o. - 3.5 seconds
iCj-yari dash -Wol BIS HsnlY. bfoos.ino hish
ssconi Jhi. La.s l,Fne Hisa tt-L 6.orsl
Princeton rr'2: fourth. Prelersist b'ooA.iAs hi.A
F.acj diving Won by Maxwell. LawrsnceVi.le.
second coz. = luses 'hli Mon. i.sNrenre-
Vile. fourth. Ommere We,' Philadelphia High
Score 9l -.
second cam. Hamilton Inst'.gte 'liri Lnse
IsrreureUue foI-l niqp. te.tra. hlsh. fria-
lelyhis Time 80 3
Relay rsrs-Wul rs Bro1hire ll.sh strart Poly
Prep. 'li-l W-f' Philadelphia iist fn4.t be
Wff Clinton Hisa New lort Time 3 {, f-f
Chang. 1n-h'p p..r' rrY.f No m Brokir1
His. prt - goius second Pos i--n n'h l0
POINTS. flird Larrer ecgiIe nifl l''r,
Referee de B Han LEY. = A d, s.srtr
Keen. Fiupafrics, Princeton.